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The Hollywood District (originally Hollyrood, after the Scottish Holyrood) is a neighborhood of northeast Portland, Oregon, United States renamed for its historic 1920s-era Hollywood Theatre. Neighborhood
The Hollywood Theatre is a historic movie theater in northeast Portland, Oregon built in 1926. It is a central historical landmark of the Hollywood District, which is named after the theatre itself. The theatre is located at 4122 NE Sandy Blvd, and is operated by a non-profit organization.
The Hollywood Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library (MCL), in the Hollywood District of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] The building, at NE 41st Avenue and Tillamook Street, opened in 2002, and has three residential stories above the library. [2]
The Pagoda was a Chinese restaurant in northeast Portland's Hollywood neighborhood. The business was housed in an "ornate, orange-tiled" building, with an exterior described as "unique" by Nathalie Weinstein of the Daily Journal of Commerce. [1] The interior had koi pond with a small bridge for guests to cross. [2]
The City Builders: One Hundred Years of Union Carpentry in Portland, Oregon, 1883–1983. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990. Carl Abbott. "Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century." Western Historical Quarterly 23 (1992): 293-322. Harvey, Thomas. "Portland, Oregon: Regional City in a Global ...
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.
Thomas's move from Hollywood to Oregon was a long time coming. For decades after rocketing to fame in Steven Spielberg's beloved 1982 blockbuster, he lived at the center of the entertainment ...
The first documented commercial film made in Oregon was a short silent film titled The Fisherman's Bride, shot in Astoria by the Selig Polyscope Company, and released in 1909. [2] Another documentary short, Fast Mail, Northern Pacific Railroad, was shot in Portland in 1897.