Talk:Grand Opera House (Seattle)

What the heck is a car park?
If you're speaking about American subjects, why do you use foriegn terminology? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.104.62.21 (talk) 05:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Additional sources
All integrated into article 19:51, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

The Seattle Times was not digitized at the time this article was written. Suggestions for exploring/improving content:

- March 24, 1923 page 12, refers to the building as the "Old Grand Theatre". Says the parking garage will be "first of its kind in the Northwest, and will accommodate 300 cares." Unclear if this is reference to multi-floor garage, conversion of existing building, or something else.

- August 19, 1923 page 36, announcement of garage opening. Named "Cherry Street Garage". 350 car capacity, 50 more than largest in Northwest. Touts the ramps, "D'Humy Motoramp" (lots of out-of-copyright references online). Included auto shop on 3rd floor as well as gas station on 1st floor. Gas tanks on roof.

Also, the fire itself is worth more discussion.

- January 20, 1917, pages 1 and 2, description of fire and aftermath. Separate article with history, information on theater.

- February 3, 1917 page 14, says that Battalion Chief Fred H. Gilham died fighting the fire. The city council investigated the permit history of the building and suspected former mayor Cotterill fired his building inspector based on his refusal to issue a permit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roket (talk • contribs) 07:02, 20 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks. If no one else gets to this in the next week or so, I'll pick it up. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 15:54, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I've now followed up those two articles on the fire (and one other that makes it clear that the matter about Cotterill was, so to speak, more smoke than fire); I'll get to the parking garage ones soon. I'm not sure if you know that the Times had a longstanding vendetta against Cotterill, because Blethen of the Times was anti-union, anti-Prohibition, etc., and Cotterill was dead opposite. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 05:07, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The 1923 sources are now integrated as well. Thanks. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 19:51, 4 September 2015 (UTC)