| Egyptian Theatre |
View looking southwest along the west side of University Way.
Photograph: courtesy Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society. |
| Address |
4543 University Way NE |
| Opening Night Seating Capacity |
1300 |
| Original Theatre Owner |
T.F. Murphy |
| Original Theatre Architect |
unknown |
| Years of Operation |
1925-1960? |
| Type of Musical Accompaniment |
Robert-Morton theatre pipe organ (1925-1948?) |
| Current Status |
Converted to retail space |
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The Egyptian Theatre was a first-run house, opening in Seattle’s University District near the University of Washington on 25 December 1925. The theatre was built by T.F. Murphy at a cost of $250,000, and had a Robert-Morton theater pipe organ installed in 1925.
Showing 1 December 1929, The Cock-Eyed World (1929); 4-6 December 1929, Street Girl (1929).
The theatre was remodeled in the 1960s into a retail store space. The Egyptian is not related to the currently-operating Egyptian Theatre in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 590 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 December 1929, p. 8E; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4 December 1929, p. 15 : Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society website.
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