Blue Mouse Theatre

1131-1133 Broadway,
Tacoma, WA 98402

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on July 12, 2025 at 6:05 am

Closed April 23, 1957 with “Proud and Profane” and “Toy Tiger”. Voters approved of the 12th and 10th Street pedestrian escalator plan that allowed the City of Tacoma to condemn the theater property and a stationery store at 10th Street. The Blue Mouse was exterminated after a salvage sale in July of 1960.

Jake Bottero
Jake Bottero on January 30, 2022 at 1:49 am

Sadly, even the building is no longer there.

rivest266
rivest266 on July 10, 2021 at 8:14 pm

Reopened as Blue Mouse on June 29th, 1922.

rivest266
rivest266 on July 10, 2021 at 1:39 pm

Opened as Apollo on June 29th, 1914. ad posted.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on July 8, 2009 at 7:12 am

This is circa 1940s, I think:
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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 10, 2008 at 5:16 am

The Blue Mouse got an Art Moderne makeover in the mid 1930s, according to an item in Boxoffice Magazine’s issue of March 9, 1935. A photo shows the new facade, featuring a building-wide marquee that sported the name “John Hamrick’s BLUE MOUSE Theatre” with Blue Mouse in block letters and the rest in cursive script, all set with neon. The article says that the entire project was handled by a theatrical outfitting company from Seattle called B.F. Shearer Company.

kateymac01
kateymac01 on May 12, 2005 at 6:31 am

This theater was also known as the Paramount in the 1920s.