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Hollywood Theatre
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Hollywood Theatre (1926).
Photograph: courtesy The Oregon Film & Video Foundation.
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| Address |
4122 NE Sandy Boulevard (modern address) |
| Opening Night Seating Capacity |
1500 |
| Original Theatre Owner |
Walter E. Tebbetts (alternately listed in contemporary materials as William E. Tebbetts) |
| Original Theatre Architect |
John Virginius Bennes of Bennes and Herzog |
| Years of Operation |
17 July 1926 through unknown
unknown to the present day |
| Type of Musical Accompaniment |
Eight-piece orchestra and a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ |
| Current Status |
Still in operation |
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The Hollywood Theatre opened on 17 July 1926 as a vaudeville theatre. The first silent film shown at the Hollywood was More Pay — Less Work (1926). Organists Leon Drews and Robert Clark played at the Hollywood Theatre.
Portland’s street numbering changed in 1933. In later years, the theatre was owned by Hamrick-Evergreen Theatres.
The theatre was later converted into a (three-projector?) Cinerama-capable theatre in the early 1960s. The theatre was a popular venue for 70mm film presentations in the 1970s. In 1975, the theatre’s balcony was enclosed to turn the venue into a triplex. The Hollywood Theatre was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The Oregon Film & Video Foundation purchased the Hollywood Theatre from Act III Theatres in April 1997.
You may make a tax-deductible donation to assist in the Oregon Film & Video Foundation’s Hollywood Theatre restoration efforts.
References: Hollywood Theatre website; Oregon Historical Society website; Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society website; Website-Wikipedia.
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