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At the time of sale in 1997, Act III Theaters consisted of 124 multiplex theaters operating 793 screens located primarily in San Antonio and Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon, and was the tenth-largest chain of cinemas in the United States. [2] [3]
Portland is a city primarily located in San Patricio County with some water bodies extending into Nueces County in the U.S. state of Texas. Its population was 20,383 as of the 2020 United States census .
After the movie, audience members were allowed to disassemble their seats and take them home as souvenirs of the theater. Of the first seven theaters, the downtown Austin theater was unique for being the host of many important film events in Austin, such as the Quentin Tarantino Film Festival and Harry Knowles's annual Butt-numb-a-thon.
Boarding House: North Shore (2003) High School Reunion (2003–05) The Surreal Life (2003–04; moved to VH1 in 2004) Pepsi Play for a Billion (Special aired on September 14, 2003; moved to ABC in 2004) The Celebrity Look-Alike Show (Special that aired on May 16, 2003) Pepsi Smash (2003–04) B.M.O.C: Big Man on Campus (2004–05) Studio 7 (2004)
In 1924, The Sunday Oregonian described the $30,000 theater as "one of the most up-to-date motion-picture houses in Portland's suburbs." [ 5 ] Charles W. Ertz was the building's architect, and G.O. Garrison was the original owner of the theater, which had a $15,000 pipe organ and seated an audience of 700 people. [ 5 ]
Paramount Theater See: Portland Publix Theatre: 1922: Paris Theatre: 6 SW Third Avenue: Inactive: Originally a burlesque house; later known as Third Avenue Theatre. Served as an adult movie theater from 2006 to 2016, after which it was converted to a live music venue. [71] — [65] 1911: People's Theater : 901 SW Alder Street: Inactive †
The Roseway Theater was a historic theater in northeast Portland, Oregon's Roseway neighborhood, in the United States, that operated for almost a century. The c. 1924 [1] [2] independent theater operated continually from 1925 to 2022, when it was destroyed by fire. Greg Wood had owned the Roseway since 2008.
The Joy's specialty was second-run or offbeat movies, and was known for many years for being one of the only theaters in the Portland Metro Area to play Bollywood films. [3] [1] In 2010, the theater was owned by Arif Amaani, a Seattle-based businessman who also ran a theater that showed primarily Indian films in Seattle. [4] [5] [6]