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Cinema 21 is a movie theater in the Northwest District of Portland, Oregon, United States. The venue opened as State Theatre in 1925, and was known as Vista during 1941–1942 and 21st Avenue Theatre from 1942 to 1965.
The cinema opened in October 1970, under the name Cine-Mini Theater in rented space formerly used by the Portland State University Bookstore. Larry Moyer, owner of Moyer Theaters and rival brother of Tom Moyer, believed that Portland was ready for an intimate, fully automated niche market movie house where the projector, house music, curtains, and house lights were automatically controlled.
That movie gave the theater more business in three days than two-weeks worth of ticket sales from mainstream, non-risque films, [3] prompting the Oregon to show adult movies exclusively. The success of Deep Throat , which opened in 1972 and played for more than a year, [ 3 ] was a turning point, leading to an increase in the number of adult ...
Usherettes at the Columbia Theater in Portland, 1916. At the advent of the 20th century, the city of Portland, Oregon, was among the first on the United States West Coast to embrace the advent of the silent and feature film. The city's first movie palace, the Majestic Theatre (later known as the United Artists Theatre), opened in 1911.
Laurelhurst Theater is a movie theater located in the Kerns neighborhood in northeast Portland, Oregon. Known for showing first [ 1 ] and second-run films and for serving food and beer , [ 2 ] the theater was constructed in 1923 with an Art Deco design.
The Bagdad Theatre is a movie theater in the Hawthorne District of Portland, Oregon, United States. It originally opened in 1927 and was the site of the gala premiere of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975, and of My Own Private Idaho in 1991. [2] The theatre was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
AMC Theatres – as of July 2012 AMC divested of its Canadian operations, selling four to Cineplex, two to Empire Theatres which were later sold to Landmark Cinemas in 2013, closing two. Empire Theatres – closed on October 29, 2013, by selling most of their locations to Cineplex Entertainment and Landmark Cinemas and closing 3 others that ...
Imago Theatre (Portland, Oregon) This page was last edited on 1 September 2024, at 06:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...