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In order to attract audiences, theaters in Portland promoted that they not only had good shows, but amazing services and settings in addition to that.

On September 4, 1904, the

In 1915, the motion picture world in the United States was intoxicated by the masterfully produced and extremely problematic

While I was scouring the Historic Oregon Newspaper archive for an advertisement concerning the Alhambra Theater in Portland, a common subject continued to crop up: The Iron Claw.

After a short run as a theater, according to available newspaper clippings, The Nickelodion had its first ad in January 1907.

In 1922, Para

In the dawn of our first world war, with Christmas right around the corner, the people of Portland in December of 1914 seemed to enjoy the basic shopping and merriment that comes around the holiday season.

The Lyric theater was a small theater located in Prineville, Oregon. Prineville is about an hour-long drive northeast of Bend, Oregon. While researching the Lyric theater, I learned that it originally opened at a now-unknown location, then moved three more times before finally settling at its final, and most well-known location at 216 N. Main St, Pineville Oregon. The operator of the theater, Ken Piercy, opened another theater across the street and named it the Pine theater. The Pine theater is still open today, standing from 1938 to now, and serves as Prineville’s main theater.