Talk:Coliseum Theater (Seattle)

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When exactly did the theater close?

The cited source from the National Park Service says the theater shut circa 1980 and was vacant for over a decade, but I believe that is wrong. I'm pretty sure I saw films there in the late 1980s.

A blog post on Vintage Seattle says closing night was March 11, 1990. Vintage Seattle is generally reliable in my experience, but it is not at all official: just "some guy with a site". - Jmabel | Talk 00:29, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The extremely reliable HistoryLink—probably the single best online source for Northwest history—concurs on the 1990 date, so I will edit accordingly. I think the NPS just got it wrong, and others have probably slavishly followed them. They specifically cite

Marsha King, “Curtain to Fall on Shows at Historic Coliseum,” The Seattle Times, March 10, 1990, p. A-11;

That seems pretty definitive. - Jmabel | Talk 00:33, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]