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The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 11

Publication:
The News Tribunei
Location:
Tacoma, Washington
Issue Date:
Page:
11
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buy from news autertisers THE DAILY NEWS TACOMA WASHINGTON MONDAY JANUARY 7 1918 11 THE NEW JONES OFFICE BUILDING AND PANTAGES THEATER WHICH WILL BE OPENED TO THE PUBLIC WITH EXCELLENT PROGRAM IN THEATER TONIGHT Burns Poe Attorney -at-Law will move his law office from Bukin Trust Bldg about January IS to KOOMS 803-4 NEW PANTAGES THEATER BUILDING DELMONT MILLERc Now Located at 730 Tacoma Building WiU Occupy BOOMS 4 AND IN THIS NEW BUILDING ON OR BEFORE FEB 1ST 1018 THE PHEASANT Tacoma's Newest Confectioners Dainty Lunches Delicious Candioa and Ices Excellent Service JUST NEXT DOOR TO NEW PANTAGES ON BROADWAY Attractive Building Houses the Pantages Theater and Offices Latest Improvements Are Embodied in Structure HAHN Manager Rea Phone A 077 Office Phone Queen Anne 1833 Architectural Decorating Go Mamfactunra of RELIEF DECORATIONS AU the Interior Relief Decorating of tho Pantageo Theater Done by Poctory and Office 358-363 Nickerson St SEATTLE WASH No type of building traded during tho loot years baa developed mote In design and construction thun baa the modern office and theater building With the advent of new building material new typea of planning method of heating ventilating and lighting more success in the application of the aeience of acoustic the modern theater la undoubtedly a vast Improvement on the old badly planned Indifferently ventilated and poorly lighted type Manna Prltara architect of Beattie a specialist In theater architecture with the design and erection of theaters tanging fhim Winnipeg to Vancouver and from Beattie to Ban Francisco to hla credit baa designed for Tacoma Its finest theater ami utile building of which it may well be proud William Jonas la to be heartily congratulated on hia admirable foresight In having made possible the erection of the Jones building and new Pantages theater The Jones building la a combination of modem office building and theater Brecled on the sight lli by 100 feel bounded by Broad way th and Com COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OFFICIAL PAPER Tacoma Daily Index Hf BURNS P0S Unexcelled by any businae newspaper In any city of 150000 In the United States It prints dally all new eulta and order In the Federal Superior and Juetlca Courts and all Inatrumanta filed for record at the Court House In addition thereto It glvee dally building plumbing mid electrical par no Ita alto auto llctRMBo and uptotbMniiiutA commercial saws aarvica covering the Northwest Subscription SI a Month For Advertising Batea Main 3700 ROOMS 803 TO 806 PANTAGES THEATER BUILDING merce ita location is IdeaL being i tral to tho city and with street tracks on all aids The building la of the highest typa of reinforced concrete wood being sparsely need and then only in duor window and hand rail trim to give uniform Illumination exceptionally free from shadow All off ires are provided with receptacles for the accommodation of desk lamps fans and other electrical appliances and special circuits for the operation of X-ray 6U Maries The office building la ala stories In nalght aeven bays on Broadway and twu bays on Ith la faced with wild cream colored matt glased terracotta The decorative effect la especially graceful with delightful ornamental detail In festoon a panels cartouches enriched shafts crowned with an elaborate cor nine supported by niodlllions The entrance to the offices are above the stores on the first floor and la at the end end of the building Entering the main vestibule through double swinging doors one beholds a large vestibule with marble stairway and marMa and ornamented cast Iron elevator grills opposite The wall ara delightfully paneled In dark gray Alaskan marble with ornamental planter cellng suitably decorated The floor apace has been divided into various offices to suit tha needs of Incoming tenants Floors are of hard maple or reinforced concrete with solid tile partitions and oak trim Corridors have terrain flooring The lighting of the offices la designed POE the Rent Man We have a big basement under the Jones Building suitable for1 billiard hall for rent Will put in swell street entrance Call at our office for plans GEO POE CO 314 BANKERS TRUST BLDG MAIN 2700 per facade with dividing fluted pilasters with enriched bases and capitals resting on pedestals end 1' rack eta Elaborately modeled cartouches pedimented door openings filled with specially designed art glass are Inserted Below ths windows ara curved balconlea resting on brackata Tha main arches are flanked by pylons appropriately enriched to match the arched openings An elaborately modeled entablature with ornamental arctl-trave enriched with festooned frieie machines sterilisers a tils! or other apparatus which may be required by the medical and dental profeamona The theater facade on Ith Is a larga seals architectural composition In terra cotta with stores below divided by decorated piers which support tbs main superstructure above DR I HOSKA DENTIST Will be located after February 1st in the Jones Block New Pantages Theater Building 9th and Broadway Tacoma Wash Phone Main 6060 Rooms 722 and 723 Three main arches dominate tbs up- and cornice supported by modllllons Above the entablature Is a modeled pedestal surmounting the whole The rear of tha building on Commerce la decorated with arched motifs in cream colored brick above the stores on tho ground floor Elaborate ornamental Iron copper and glass marquises ara provided on the Broadway and Ith (Ooatbraed oa Page IX Column L) OASTORIAMtfumiau In Use For Over 30 Years aB Oak (Formerly Old Pantages Theater) Commencing Monday Matinee Jan 7 Daily Matinees at 2:30 Twice Nightly at 7 and 9 Sundays Continuous From 2 TheNewPamta Broadway at Ninth Street Alexander Pantages Lessee and Prop'r Thos Myers Resident Manager Formal Qpetik Monday Night Jan 7 at 7 omte Carter AND HIS Box Office at 5 Doors Open at 6 Musical Comedy Co In a Season of Musical Comedy PRESENTING AN UNEQUALED VAUDEVILLE PROGRAM OF 7AllStarACTS Prices MATINEES: 10c and 20c Boxes 30c EVENINGS: 10c 20c and 30c Boxes 55c Arrangement of Prices Upper Floor Loges 55c Reserved Section 35c Last Section 10c 20c WHICH INCLUDES WAR TAX Matinees 10c 20c Boxes and Loges 30c Entire Lower Floor 30c Boxes 55c.

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