100 YEARS 💯🎉 Seattle's iconic Neptune Theatre celebrates 100 years of entertainment

When it opened in Seattle's U-Distinct in the fall of 1921, the U-Neptune Theatre as it was known then was toasted as the city's most modern movie house, with one of the most state of the art sound systems in the country.

"Back in the day when it was a silent film theater, they had an organ over here, a pipe organ, and these grinds up here is where the pipes were living and it was all steam-driven and a serious operation," said Dan Reinharz, manager of the Neptune Theatre.

Serious was also the way projectionists had to treat the films they showed.

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