In the heyday of the motion picture industry, downtown Olympia had several movie theaters. The Zabel family owned several of them. This one, the Ray, was located at the corner of 5th and Washington, at the current site of the Timberland Bank.
Esterly Photograph, 1914, courtesy Washington State Historical Society, catalog 2010.149.4.1
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2018