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The Portland Hotel about 1900 at the site of the now-public square A 1986 view, showing the fountain's original color and a banner for Powell's Travel Store The square's surface is made up of bricks inscribed with the names of residents whose $15 donations in 1981–1982 helped fund its construction.
The theater's marquee in 2014. The venue opened as State Theatre in 1925, and was known as Vista during 1941–1942 and 21st Avenue Theatre from 1942 to 1965. [1] Cinema 21 is known for supporting independent and local filmmakers and has hosted many events and festivals during its long history.
The first multiplex in Portland, the Eastgate Theater, opened in 1966 on SE 82nd Avenue, and featured two screens and state-of-the-art sound. [33] The Fifth Avenue Cinema, located in southwest Portland along the edge of the Portland State University campus, was opened as a Moyer Theater in 1970. [34]
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 ...
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.
Antoinette Hatfield Hall, 2012 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 2007 Hollywood Theatre, 2013. 5th Avenue Cinema; Academy Theater; Aladdin Theater; Alberta Rose Theatre; Alhambra Theatre
Rimsky-Korsakoffee House, located in the Buckman neighborhood of southeast Portland, Oregon, in the United States, is one of the city's oldest coffeehouses.Named after Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the classical music-themed coffeehouse serves coffee and desserts, operating from the former living room of a reportedly haunted 1902 Craftsman-style house.
Detail of the theater's architecture and signage, 2014. In its 2005 review of the theater, The Portland Mercury said the "glut of cozy sofas make an outing comfortable", but criticized the venue for having only one screen and for showing predominantly heterosexual films. The publication said that the venue was "[m]ore like an actual cinema than ...