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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.
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.
Tomorrow Theater is a movie theater and multimedia space in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is operated by PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow, the film and new media center of the Portland Art Museum. [1] Previously, the venue was an adult movie theater known as Oregon Theater. [2]
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.
The establishment is operated by McKee Enterprises, who own the Wunderland arcade company which operates at the theatre. [2] John McKee purchased the Avalon in 1964, and became the first cinema in Portland to operate with multiple screens. [5] In 2008, Portland Monthly named the Avalon the "Best Way to Stretch a Dollar" on their "Best of the ...
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.
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.
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. ...