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Dec 3, 2014
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Really should send a picture of the Shurinal to Jason Alexander.
BTW. We'll miss you, Sarah!
—Joe Bar Regular
Of course they have it at Scarecrow. I'll have to rent it someday.
4 nights later, we went to see a one night only showing of "rem by mtv" at the harvard exit. it was a tuesday night, we got there 5 minutes late, and the theater was probably 75% full, paying $15 a tix to see a film about a band that broke up like 3 years ago. (btw, it was a great film).
i will miss the harvard exit. i'm all for urban density/progress/etc, but when all we decide to build are $2000/ month 450 sq ft studios, with ground level chipotles and starbucks and chase banks, well, capitol hill can go fuck itself.
great piece of writing, sarah.
Great article Sarah.
(Former employee of 9 years)
Another Seattle icon bites the dust.
What's next? (Besides the Varsity Theater)?
Sad. Sad. Sad.
I managed the Harvard Exit for about two years. 1981-82, beginning about 3-4 months after Jim and Art tuned it over to Landmark.
Pretty much spent 12 hours a day there. I opened 'Top of the Exit'. Opened the building every Sunday morning for the ladies of the Women's Century Club for their meetings. Got married in the parlor in front of the fireplace one Sunday morning in January 1984 while Clem Zip played 'Sunny Side of the Street' on the grand piano. Also put that old projector in there after Linda Rajote had purchased it. I and a friend personally restored the scroll work above the entry and back doors and built and installed the movie poster cases in the lobby and up the stairway. I even did the logo thing that sits lighted above the outside poster case on the front of the building. (We built that, too.)
As you can tell I have a lot of history with that place and I'm sad to hear it's going by the way. It was routinely voted best movie theater in Seattle for many years. It's a big loss for the entire city.
Landmark should be ashamed, but they are probably getting a pile of money and feel no remorse. It's the way of things these day in Seattle.
Where are all the ghosts going to go?