In a B-Town Blog exclusive, we’ve just learned from longtime Burien business owner Dan House, proprietor of both The Tin Room Bar and Dan the Sausageman, that he’ll be building a brand new combination movie theater/bar at 923 SW 152nd, in the space where his retail business was located.
The new theater/bar, to be called The Tin Theater, will not only show movies in an intimate setting, it will allow 34 moviegoers to eat and drink at their seats, similar in concept to McMenamins, a combo theater/bar with numerous locations in Portland.
Here’s a scan of the plans, exclusive to The B-Town Blog (click on the image below to see a larger size):
Current plans for The Tin Theater seat 34 people, who will be allowed to eat and drink at their seats. Click on image to see larger size.
Below is a Q & A interview with Dan, who proudly became a father of a baby girl Monday July 6th, and he’s looking for name suggestions (see below):
Q: Why are you building “The Tin Theater”?
A: The same reason why we built the Tin Room, I think Burien needs it badly.
Q: How did you come up with this idea?
A: There is a bar owner in Portland that has done this for awhile and I always like the idea, they are the McMenamin bars, they have about five theaters.
Q: What kind of films will you be showing?
A: We will be showing all kinds of Movies, we may have James Bond week (Martini and a movie), Clint Eastwood week, etc. and I would like to have the Burien Film Festival, maybe have the Highline School District or local people enter short movies.
Q: What will you show as the the first film?
A: First movie I am leaning towards is The Wizard of Oz, for the Tin Man.
Dan House, right, pictured with Ernie Eder, former owner of the Hi-Line Tin Shop.
Q: What will make your theater different from others?
A: The Tin Theatre will be small and intimate, not a monster “get lost in the parking lot” multiplex. You will be able to eat and drink in our lounge-type setting. We are thinking the theater may be for rent so you can invite 45 of your favorite friends to view your best movie or see a screening of your wedding, vacation, graduation etc., or for sporting events, with this you will be able to have your own server/bartender.
Q: What will happen with the Dan the Sausageman shop?
A: In front of the Theater will be a new Dan the Sausageman/Tin Cellars focusing on our wines, sausages and cheese but it will also be the area to hang out and mingle with Chirlee (my mother) and wait for the movie to start.
We will be taking our internet business off site to make room for the Movie Theatre, and we are looking for a location in Burien with warehouse space that we can build our gift boxes from and ship out; we have been around for 21 years and have no plans of stopping.
We just had a baby girl today at 4:04, we need a name, got any ideas?
Please post your baby name ideas (or thoughts on The Tin Theater) in the Comments below and we’ll make sure Dan gets ‘em (our suggestions: a name that can be shortened to “Tin” like Tindal, Tingley, Tinnea, Tinney, Tinsley, etc.).
EXCLUSIVE: This morning (April 1st) The B-Town Blog met and interviewed an unidentified male who claims responsibility for the spate of recent, unsolved laser-airplane incidents we’ve reported on in the area northwest of Sea-Tac Airport.
Below is a transcript of our brief and somewhat strange encounter with an area man who wanted to be called “Floyd.”
We met him in a garage not far from where the incidents occurred. He was working on an inflatable, remote-controlled helium-filled balloon and listening to some loud 70s progrock when we found him, alone.
BTB: Hello, I’m Scott from The B-Town Blog. Are you Floyd?
FLOYD: Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar (he offered us a cigar, which we politely refused).
BTB: No thanks. What can you tell me Floyd about these laser incidents?
FLOYD: (pulling out a chart of news clippings about him) Everybody else is just green – have you seen the chart? It’s a helluva start, it could be made into a monster, if we all pull together as a team…
BTB: Floyd, did you know it’s a felony to point a laser at an aircraft and it’s punishable under the Patriot Act?
FLOYD: Well I’ve always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely…
BTB: A deep respect for what?
FLOYD: (he then cranked up his boombox, then pulled out a second laser pointer and played a shell game with both, apparently trying to confuse us) The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one’s pink?
BTB: You’re using a pink laser too? Which one is it? I say it’s in your left hand.
FLOYD NODS AND GRINS AND CONTINUES THE SHELL GAME.
BTB: Can you tell me Floyd why you do this?
FLOYD: I’m in the high-fidelity first class traveling set, and I think I need a Lear jet.
BTB: Oh-kay. Floyd what’s your reasoning behind these laser incidents?
FLOYD: I’ve always been mad, I know I’ve been mad, like the most of us…very hard to explain why you’re mad, even if you’re not mad…
BTB: Dude, are you off your meds or something? Why do you do this?
FLOYD: We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom…(yelling at a passing car) Hey! Teachers – leave them kids alone!
BTB: Um, okay. Anything else you want to add?
FLOYD: If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
At this point, Floyd starting pointing both lasers at an inflatable, pig-shaped helium balloon which had floated out the garage door and escaped.
As Floyd chased the balloon down the alley, we snuck away.
