There was no performance, but the Historic Everett Theatre’s costume sale drew a crowd. “People ate it up,” said Mike Olson, a board member for the nonprofit Everett Theatre Society, which owns and operates the grand old showplace.
Olson, also the theater’s technical director, said the organization made about $1,300 at its sale Saturday and Sunday. Garb on hangers normally used for scenery was snapped up by buyers, who also went for old props. “It’s funny what people will buy,” Olson said.
The group is losing costume storage space, Olson said. “We just kept the really period pieces,” he said. Six big bags of items that didn’t sell were to be donated Monday to the Everett Gospel Mission.
The 1901 theater on Colby Avenue is used by the Northwest Savoyards, the Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts and other groups.
“We’re really working to try to keep it open,” Olson said.
Seeking women who sing: Do you happen to be a closet diva? Voices Northwest Chorus, a group chartered by Sweet Adelines International, is inviting women to an open house from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Monday at 2301 Hoyt Ave., Everett.
In April, the group won second-place honors in the medium chorus division at a regional contest in Spokane. Information: www.voicesnorthwest.org.
A free car wash for everyone: Brown Bear car washes are giving away “Bear Essential” washes from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at all automated tunnel-wash facilities. The freebie marks the company’s 52nd year in business.
Brown Bear, part of Car Wash Enterprises Inc., started in 1957 with one car wash in Seattle and now operates 40 car washes.
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