The Old Rite Aid Building on Broadway Could Be Anything

The Old Rite Aid Building on Broadway Could Be Anything

Are We Sure We Want It to Be a McDonald’s?  by Emily Nokes On December 6, 1911, the Seattle Times announced: “The new Society Theatre, a photo playhouse, opens at Broadway and John next Friday night, with four reels of new films … music will be furnished by a three-piece orchestra.” (Next to an ad for 15-cent mechanical toy mice, and the “permanently useful gift” of an electric iron.) Nearly 80 years later, on January 11, 1990, the paper reporte…