Danz Family Photograph Collection 1890-1953 1930-1953

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Danz Family Photograph Collection 1890-1953 1930-1953

Photograph collection including photographs of Seattle movie theater owner John Danz and various classic Seattle movie theaters.

53 photographic prints; 1 box and 1 folder

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6376065

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Republic Pictures Corporation

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Republic Pictures was organized in 1935, largely the result of a reorganization of Monogram Pictures, a small, independent motion picture production company in Los Angeles, and two other independents, Liberty Pictures and Mascot Pictures, whose studio in the San Fernando Valley (once the Mack Sennett studio) became the primary production facility of Republic Pictures. Under the leadership of Herbert J. Yates, Republic Pictures became known as the "King of the B" studios, as the Gene Autry and Ro...

Northgate Theatre (Seattle, Wash.)

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Danz, John,  d. 1961-

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Danz, Carolyn

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Starting with one movie theater as a side venture in 1913, pioneer motion picture exhibitor John Danz saw his company, Sterling Theatres (later Sterling Recreation Organization or SRO), grow into the largest independent theater circuit in the Pacific Northwest by the 1950s, with 25 theaters in the Seattle area. After his death in 1961, John Danz’s son, Fredric A. Danz, continued to build SRO until, at its height in the 1980s, it was showing first-run films on 116 movie screens, a di...

Sterling Theatres Inc.

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Martin Moyer

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Sterling Recreation Organization

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Danz, Jessie, 1889-1973

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Roger Dudley

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Asahel Curtis

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