Blue Mouse Theatre

The Blue Mouse Theatre title was used for several historic vaudeville and movie venues opened by John Hamrick in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

"[1] The group renamed it back to the Blue Mouse Theatre and it has become a community attraction, showing popular movies on a second-run basis.

Tacoma glass artist Dale Chihuly designed neon blue mice "seen scurrying across the marquee" for the 221-seat theater.

In 1922 it reopened as a Blue Mouse Theatre[5][6] 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.

The location was originally opened as a Globe Theater in 1912, before being taken over and completely remodeled in 1921 by John Hamrick[8][9][10] It used a wurlitzer organ shipped from the factory in 1922.

Hamrick-Evergreen Theatres closed the venue sometime around 1936 and it was reopened again in 1940 by Paul Forsythe, who "presented family films and kiddie matinees" and "was rewarded with success and a host of good patrons, young and old who became loyal Blue Mouse fans."

[2] According to one account, "There was a faint outcry to 'save the Blue Mouse' but even if it had been a mighty roar, it was to no more avail than the 'Save the Fox' campaign was in San Francisco in 1963.