Blue Mouse Theatre in Downtown Tacoma
The Blue Mouse in downtown Tacoma opened as the Apollo theater and had 650 seats. In 1922 it reopened as a Blue Mouse Theatre It was the first theater in Tacoma to show "talkies" and was done in by the city's "failed experiment" with moving sidewalks and was demolished in 1960 to make way for a new street escalator. Showings included "The Jazz Singer" in January, 1928. It was located at 1131-1133 Broadway.
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