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[[File:5th Ave Theater Grand Opening (Seattle) 1926-09.jpg|thumb|right|Opening night.]]The theatre celebrated its grand opening on September 24, 1926, with an opening unit program that included both film and live [[vaudeville]] performances.<ref name="historylink1">{{Cite web|first=Eric L. |last=Flom |url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3753 |title=Fifth (5th) Avenue Theatre opens in Seattle amid gala celebration on September 24, 1926. |publisher=HistoryLink.org |date=April 24, 2002 |access-date=Mar 24, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070313231617/http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3753| archive-date=March 13, 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref> The opening program included the silent film ''Young April'', Fanchon and Marco's stage presentation ''The Night Club'', and Lipschultz and his Syncopated Soloists.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Advertisement for Fifth Avenue Theatre |pages=8, Col. 5–8 |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=September 23, 1926}}</ref> Oliver Wallace, a popular local musician and composer, returned from [[Portland, Oregon]], to be the accompanying organist for opening night. Wallace had been the first theatre organist in a Seattle motion picture house.<ref name="OWallace_ST_09-23-26">{{Cite news|title=Oliver Wallace at the organ: popular musician back home |pages=17 col. 2–4 |work=The Seattle Times |date=September 23, 1926}}</ref>
Opening night was also marked by festivities outside the theatre. Seven blocks of downtown Seattle around the theatre were closed to street car and automobile traffic. Lured by free street car, bus, and taxicab rides, thousands of people packed Fifth Avenue between Seneca Street and Pike Street,
{{Blockquote|It is doubtful that any Friday night in Seattle's history saw more people circulating through all the downtown streets than were there last night. The density in the center of the activities was such that street cars were diverted...<ref name="Throng_ST_09-25-26">{{Cite news|title=Throng sees theatre open |pages= 1 col. 3–5 |work=The Seattle Times |date= September 25, 1926}}</ref>|''The Seattle Times''}}
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