N&T Grand Illusion THEN1

THEN1: In this southeast view at 50th Avenue and University Way in 1937, the second floor of this dental building makes up the footprint of today’s Grand Illusion Cinema. A barber shop operates at lower right. Attached to the building at left is a furrier-tailor business topped by a Dutch gambrel roof. Above it is the tower of University Christian Church, built in 1923-1928 and demolished in 2019. (Puget Sound Regional Branch, Washington State Archives”

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