The building is still there as of 2024. It is the same building as the Old Chelsea Tri Cinema, just under a different address around the corner. The Tri Cinema played straight pronography in two screens and exclusively gay pornography in the third, under the Tom Kat name.
A screen shot for the 1962 Portland City Directory display ad has been added.
Growing up in Gresham in the early 1960s, this hulking, abandoned building across Powell from the Rexall drugstore was rumored to be haunted. It was built out over a slough on concrete pilings. We were warned to stay away it– and we did!
Fire destroys the Gresham Theater in September, 1970. The building hade been abandoned for many years and was scheduled for demolition. It was removed entirely in 1971.
Opened June 2, 1950 as the Hood. It was Henry and Rose Moyer’s fifth theater in Oregon. The opening feature was Paramount’s “The Eagle and the Hawk.” Publicity stated it featured 800 “bodiform” seats, air conditioning, and carpeted aisles.
The building is still there as of 2024. It is the same building as the Old Chelsea Tri Cinema, just under a different address around the corner. The Tri Cinema played straight pronography in two screens and exclusively gay pornography in the third, under the Tom Kat name.
A screen shot for the 1962 Portland City Directory display ad has been added.
Growing up in Gresham in the early 1960s, this hulking, abandoned building across Powell from the Rexall drugstore was rumored to be haunted. It was built out over a slough on concrete pilings. We were warned to stay away it– and we did!
Fire destroys the Gresham Theater in September, 1970. The building hade been abandoned for many years and was scheduled for demolition. It was removed entirely in 1971.
Opened June 2, 1950 as the Hood. It was Henry and Rose Moyer’s fifth theater in Oregon. The opening feature was Paramount’s “The Eagle and the Hawk.” Publicity stated it featured 800 “bodiform” seats, air conditioning, and carpeted aisles.
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Girls in ethnic costume pose in front of Delray Theatre, 1933