Category talk:Dugdale's Billiard Parlors

Lots of pictures, because…

We have a disproportionate number of pictures of this unprepossessing, relatively short-lived 2-story building because it was next to the Smith Tower during the years of the latter's construction as the tallest building in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River, roughly late 1911 through 1914. For example, Dugdale's features prominently in this photo from November 11, 1911.

Shortly before that, it had been the Alaska Theatre. We know it was still the Alaska Theatre some time after July 4, 1910 because we have this photo of it that postdates The Johnson–Jeffries Fight. Has to be the same building: in particular, the ornamentation on the Collins Block, at the left in that photo remains absolutely identical in 2019, and one glance at Dugdale's tells us it was not a brand new building in 1911.

It was apparently demolished no later than 1920, because a similarly proportioned new building containing the Florence Theatre (which operated into the 1950s, and the marquee of which is visible at right in this photo) was constructed in 1920-1921; first performance there to be mentioned in the Seattle Times is in the issue of February 22, 1921, which indicates that Ethel Clayton would be performing there. Trusting http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/45433 on that having been a new building; that site could imaginably be wrong.

The Florence Theatre building has clear continuity down to the present day as (among other things) Roger Forbes Palace (https://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16118coll11/id/638) in the 1970s, one of the several stages of the Pioneer Square Theater in the 1980s (the punk-rock musical Angry Housewives ([1], [2] ran there for many years, the longest-running play in Seattle history), and more recently a bar. - Jmabel ! talk 03:25, 9 October 2019 (UTC)