The Research Process

The only way I have been able to learn about The Old Trail Drive-In was through 

The Lake Theater and Cafe was opened on March 23rd 1940 in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The journey to find the opening date was long but rewarding. The first traces of the Lake Theaters early existence I found were announcements and construction updates for the Oswego Districts “theater project”.

Something relatively interesting that I found out doing my research on the Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay is the fact that even in the 1950s and the 1930s, the theater was used for events that were not centered around films.

So most of the informations I got for this project they were about architecture, what type of people were leading the theatre throuhout the years and how many impediments the theatre had to overcome in order to be a successful theater, at that specific time that was the only one in the area so people had to be really careful how would they manage their money and how to invest really smart into that theater, not only this but the architecture of the theatre was different compared to a lot of the theaters that were in function at that time, the Spanish chandeliers with a blue and gold color p

The Cinemagic Theater is 113 years old and counting. Thus, the research process for this theater has been complicated and time consuming, although deeply interesting. The theater has had eight owners and been renamed eight times.

I am currently doing research on the Rhododendron Drive-In Theater which operated in Florence from April 30, 1953 until some time at the end of 1979.

For my blog post, I chose an advertisement article about the Savoy theater in Medford that the Medford Mail Tribune published on October 3, 1908. The Savoy was the second moving picture theater built right after the Bijou. It is an interesting article because it was two days after its first opening on October 1 of 1908. 

Frank Neugebauer the proprietor and manager of the Dime Theater in Pendleton was attacked by Councilman J.T. Hinkle on Febuary 17th 1909. The main reason for this was that Frank had decided to cancel an act due to it being a very poor act. He brings up in his response that this act had previously been “chased” out of the Star theater the year before because of how bad it was. Also, he says that the act had an initial trial run and did not go well. He paid them for their nights work but refused to let them come back again.