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The Hidden Muses of Capitol Theater

Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 1:26am.

Is the first muse crying?Zoom in and see.

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Thank you!

Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 8:50am.

These are wonderful.

Oh My Goodness!

Submitted by JstPlnOnry on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 9:03am.

I'm totally in AWE! Those are gorgeous photos! You could certainly give Tony Overman a run for his awards!

Thank you sooooooo much for capturing these so beautifully!

I am a wobbly at heart. Always have been. Think I always will be. - Olyblogger "Mike"

Those are beautiful. I hope

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 9:19am.

Those are beautiful. I hope they keep them up, and I especially hope that nobody ever vandalizes them. I remember a couple years ago a church in Fife or Federal Way (one of those eff'n towns) had rocks thrown through a stained glass window that was 113 years old.

damn

Submitted by enpen on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 9:23am.

Those are excellent. Thanks Googs.

There are so many things like this around!

Submitted by Tschida on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 12:49pm.

But with all our preoccupations we so often miss them. I go to a very cool blog you should take a look at. It is located here. The guy who runs it take loads of great photos.

Every now and then he posts a photo of something cool and off the beaten track and has a little

contest for the fun of it, to see if people can guess where the object of the photo is located.

It kind of helps us be aware of our surroundings.

One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.

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Great pictures! Music is

Submitted by OperaGirl on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 12:41pm.

Great pictures!

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

"I call architecture frozen music." -- Goethe

Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 1:02pm.

hey

Submitted by enpen on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 1:10pm.

Would you mind if I turned some of these into mouseovers in order to free up some landscape on the frontpage?

Feel free to creat some muse-overs

Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 1:19pm.

a joke!

Submitted by enpen on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 1:46pm.

"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe

you have mouseovers

Submitted by enpen on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 1:58pm.

flip-flip

"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe

The missing Muse

Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 7:23pm.

One of the widows is missing it's muse. The survivors are Poetry, Archetecture, Sculpture and Painting, and Music. There must be an old photo out there to answer this mystery.

Found details of the building design

Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 7:44pm.

right here. Interesting. The original design had five muses, from left to right: Music, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Poetry.

Very Cool Find Gug!

Submitted by JstPlnOnry on Sat, 02/02/2008 - 8:02pm.

I found myself wandering all around that site!

Building Blueprints

Submitted by TheGulag on Sat, 02/02/2008 - 1:19am.

That's funny, I was just looking at those blueprints in the UW digital archive and was wondering about the missing muse myself. One theory is that it could have never been there. If you look at old pictures of the sign that graced the original marquise, it rose vertically, obstructing that center window. It looked much like the current sign for the Pantages in Tacoma, except for a depiction of the capitol rotunda on the top. Its interesting to look at those blueprints of the original marquise awning. It only covered the doorway opening and ticket booth. It had decorative leaded glass and sconce like plaster castings much like those that still decorate the top frieze of the theater. Shows were only advertised on playbills over two galvanized iron boards at both ends of the front facade. Although the old marquee was a great example of Art Deco design, and filled with memories, I never did think it belonged, or fit, the front of this beauty of a Beaux-Arts theater.

Yeah,

Submitted by Guglielmo on Sat, 02/02/2008 - 10:54am.

It looks like they just combined the painting and sculture muse in one window. Jus left the middle one empty perhaps. Makes sinse considering the original marquise. WHo ever thought that second marquise was a good idea?

Just goes to show you

Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 02/02/2008 - 8:19pm.

My memory of that theater front runs back almost a half century, and I had no idea it hid those extra doo-dads back there. Makes me wonder about other parts of Oly are hidden away from us that we pass by every day.

When I was growing up around here there were only 3 movie houses in town: The State, the Olympic, and the Capitol. The State is now a live theater and the Olympic was destroyed and replaced by the Washington Center. Only the Capitol remains in its original form, or close to it.

Also, there were three drive-in theaters. Tumwater (about where Tumwater City Hall is now), Lacey (where Freddie's is now), and Taylor Town (still there, on the way to Shelton on 101).

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