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KOIN Center 6


2002 Photo from the Scott Neff collection.
1440 SW Third Ave
Portland OR 97201

Closed
Record #2903  
 Opened: 1985
 Closed: 2004
 Current Use:
 Demolished:
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National Register:
Current Organ: none
 Also Known As:
 Previously operated by: Seven Gables Theatres, Landmark Theatres, Act III Theatres, Regal Cinemas, Regal Entertainment Group

Information for this tour was contributed by Dave Felthous.

KOIN Radio-TV built KOIN Center to house their broadcasting stations and also have room for retail, including the first new downtown cinema in ages.

Ironically, KOIN-TV got on the air thanks to collaboration from The Oregonian newspaper, then owned by the pioneer local Pittock family, and a major investment from the Gamble family. The Gambles owned a small circuit of, shall we say, "lesser" theaters, except for the Bagdad, which still survives as a cinema/pub. They also had the Circle and Capitol on the sleazy edges of downtown, and the Vanport in the suburban tenement housing project thrown up for WWII and occupied almost solely by minorities. Vanport was wiped out by a flood on a hot Memorial Day Sunday in 1948. The loss of life was amazingly small, but hundreds of people lost their homes.

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2002 photos from the Scott Neff collection.


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