And they still go to the movies.Īuditorium Theater looking northeast from Review Tower in 1891. In the final act, two of the city’s historic theaters are spared the wrecking ball – the Fox and what’s now called the Bing – and find new life with live entertainment. The once-grand theaters are cut up into shops, demolished for parking lots or resort to playing porn flicks.Īct III. The advent of television helps keep people at home. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” sells 40,000 tickets in a week.

The future of Spokane cinema is bright, and a movie studio builds the $1 million Fox Theater, with seating for 2,300 people. Upward of 30 movie theaters pop up downtown, and filmed “photoplays” displace live vaudeville shows. The people rejoice, and buy popcorn.Īct II. The Scenic theater, Spokane’s first “motion picture house,” opens in 1903 on First Avenue between Stevens and Washington streets.

It’s so boring living in the middle of nowhere. The people of the frontier town of Spokane grow restless.

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