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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.
The Union Theatre (later known as the Paris Theatre), a burlesque house built in 1922, also began showing films, and became known as the Third Avenue Theatre in 1930. [ 22 ] 1948 saw the opening of the 673-seat Academy Theater in Portland's Montavilla neighborhood, one of the few neighborhood cinemas to be built in the city after the 1920s.
The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [ 2 ] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [ 3 ] and over one-fourth of those are found partially or wholly in Portland.
Thomas partnered with Albert Mercier on the design of several historic movie theaters including the Egyptian Theater in Coos Bay, Oregon; [1] [9] [10] McDonald Theatre in Eugene, Oregon; [11] Portland, Oregon's Blue Mouse Theatre and Bagdad Theatre; [12] [13] The Bobwhite Theatre in Portland Oregon 1924, They also designed the Oriental Theater ...
Bagdad Theatre; Balfour–Guthrie Building; Ballou & Wright Company Building; Bank of California Building (Portland, Oregon) Barber Block; Berry Botanic Garden; Congregation Beth Israel (Portland, Oregon) Beth Israel School; Billy Webb Elks Lodge; Blake McFall Company Building; USS Blueback (SS-581) Broadway Bridge (Portland, Oregon)
The Benson Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon, is reportedly haunted by its original owner Cathedral Park is said to be haunted by Thelma Taylor, a teenager who was murdered there in 1949 The Columbia Gorge Hotel is reputedly the site of paranormal activity Imbrie Farm is allegedly haunted by family members of its namesake who died there Multnomah County Poor Farm, which now operates as ...
Entered originally from Hawthorne via a passage through the Frances Building, the Echo Theater was a movie house. Facing competition from the nearby Bagdad Theater, which opened across the street in 1927, the Echo Theater closed, and its entrance was moved to 37th Avenue side. Storage and plumbing companies used the space until 1984, when it ...
Antoinette Hatfield Hall, 2012 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 2007 Hollywood Theatre, 2013. 5th Avenue Cinema; Academy Theater; Aladdin Theater; Alberta Rose Theatre; Alhambra Theatre