PANTAGES THEATRE : IF NOT FOR KLONDIKE KATE IT MIGHT HAVE NEVER BEEN : DOES SHE HAUNT THE THEATRE NOW?

Linking to the site! Here is the part about Klondike Kate.
"The Pantages Theater, built in 1918 by Alexander Pantages, was partially funded with financial assistance from his mistress, Kate Rockwell. Known as “Klondike Kate” and “Queen of the Yukon” she brought grace and style to the dance halls and saloons of the Pacific Northwest. She held miners spellbound with her flame dance and took their breath away when she appeared in a $1,500 French gown. Her lush ballads brought tears to their eyes and inspired a shower of gold nuggets.

Between performances she would dance with lonely miners for a dollar a dance and drink champagne with them for which she received $7.50 a bottle. “We were vendors of laughter and music to men who were starved for beauty and gaiety,” she said. “And we give good measure for all the gold the miners showered upon us.”

In the first four months she was in Dawson, Alaska, Kate received a hundred proposals of marriage, though the only man she wanted to marry was Alexander Pantages, who in the end, took her money and broke her heart. After Pantages married a woman of higher social standing, Kate sued him but never fully recovered her financial loss. She struggled for the rest of her life to make ends meet.

Rumor has it that a ghost haunts the Pantages. No one knows for sure whether it is Kate or Alexander, but one thing we do know is you'll never have a chance to solve this mystery without visiting the Historic Pantages Theater!"


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KLONDIKE KATE : YUKON GOLD RUSH MISTRESS : MISTRESS OF THE MONTH

Kathleen Eloisa Rockwell = Klondike Kate

While the weather is much too hot, we think of someone really cool, Klondike Kate.It was the Gold Rush... the 1890's... Yukon Territory.

Sometimes a mistress depended on her man to support her. Sometimes he depended on her to bail him out or give him the money to invest. Marion Davies did it when Hearst needed a loan. Maybe it takes a crisis to show that loyalty? That kind of "I believe in you" Love? Kate was instrumental in keeping her Mister in business, when he founded the Pantages Theatre!

Kathleen Eloisa Rockwell is celebrated today at Klondike Kate contests in places like Wisconsin, where ladies with some old time flash sing and imitate the dance hall Kate. As is usually the case, this mistress keeps us fascinated.
Thing about Kate is that she was apparently not so refined, maybe even rough and tumble. That was the personality and character that allowed a woman to succeed in the risky atmosphere of boom or bust.
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