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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.
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]
Avalon Theatre, established as the Sunnyside Theatre in 1912, is the oldest operating movie theater in Portland, Oregon, and is believed to be the state's oldest theater and the first with more than one screen. [1] [2]
Another documentary short, Fast Mail, Northern Pacific Railroad, was shot in Portland in 1897. Since then, numerous major motion pictures have been shot in the state, including F.W. Murnau 's City Girl (1930), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Animal House (1978), Stand by Me (1986), Free Willy (1993), and Wild (2014).
Gresham (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ ʃ əm / GRESH-əm) is a city in the Willamette Valley, Located in Multnomah County in the U.S. state of Oregon, bordered by Portland to the northwest and partially in the southwest. It was first settled in the early 1850s by the Powell brothers.
Monte Carlo was an Italian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] It was established in 1927, [2] and was one of the city's first Italian restaurants. [3] The restaurant operated on southeast Portland's Belmont Street for approximately 70 years, before owner John DiGregorio relocated the business to Gresham.
East County is a region of Multnomah County, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. [1] [2] ... Gresham – 114,247; Fairview – 10,424; Troutdale – 16,300;
The Roseway Theater was a historic theater in northeast Portland, Oregon's Roseway neighborhood, in the United States, that operated for almost a century. The c. 1924 [1] [2] independent theater operated continually from 1925 to 2022, when it was destroyed by fire. Greg Wood had owned the Roseway since 2008.