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Notes:
The West Seattle Herald captured many of the happenings at the Granada over the years: July 23, 1926: the Granada Theater opens. One of the most heavily promoted events in West Side history, the event (Reginald Denny's "Coming Home" was the debut film) drew 2,500 to 3,000 people,'the largest crowd which had greeted any suburban motion picture house in Seattle," the Herald claimed. Giant headlines and long stories had seized the Herald's front page for months in advance, and the week of the opening, the Herald published a four-page, slick-paper, sepia-toned "Granada Theater Number." The paper spared no superlatives in promoting "Seattle's newest, prettiest and most completely equipped movie palace." Its 130- by 104- feet expanse also made the Granada West Seattle's largest commercial building to date. The $135,000 theater seated 1,000 and featured a party room, nursery and a "room for women with children" on the mezzanine; an "effect machine" to simulate falling snow, a waving flag, a starlit sky or a thunderstorm; hand-carved furniture, heavy drapes, beveled mirrors and thick carpeting; a huge Wurlitzer pipe organ; a wrought-iron chandelier hanging from a 38-foot vestibule ceiling; a system allowing'a change of air every 10 minutes'; the latest style street lights; an electric exterior sign that "imitates a skyrocket which comes flaming over the roof and ends in a burst of stars"; and a spacious auto park in back."