October 27th, 2008 @ 12:34 am by Cliffe | Sorted Past Post
The old Seattle Civic Auditorium (opened 1928) had seen quite a bit of history. Sinatra sang there. Eisenhower spoke there. Even though the postcard proclaims it had “been given the most thorough acoustical treatment, in accordance with the specifications of some of the foremost acoustical engineers in the United States,” the sound was in fact horrible. Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, said that it was leading Seattle into a
“cultural dustbin” in the early 1940’s. The facility was remade into the Seattle Center Opera House for the ‘62 World’s Fair. The latest version of the building opened up in 2003 as McCaw Hall, after 127 million in renovations.
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| Seattle Civic Auditorium. Schack, Young & Myers, Architects & Engineers. |
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| Seattle has constructed a Civic Auditorium, Exposition Hall and Recreation Field, as a three-fold civic development, on a centrally located twelve-acre site, bounded by Third and Fourth Avenues North, Harrison and Mercer Streets. The entire project cost $1,115,000. |
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