Coquille Valley Cinema
83 W. First Street,
Coquille,
OR
97423
83 W. First Street,
Coquille,
OR
97423
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Previous Names: Liberty Theatre, New Liberty Theatre
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This former theater building, constructed as the Liberty Theatre opened in the middle of 1921. Following a remodel, it reopened on October 10, 1931 as the New Liberty Theatre. It was remodeled again on May 31, 1936. It was closed as the Coquille Valley Cinema in the late-1950’s or early-1960’s. It was converted into a private residence and was demolished by 2024.
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The Liberty theater as it was built is currently a private residence. The balcony and projection booth were converted into a large apartment. The original restrooms and lounge are still intact under the lobby but were closed and used for storage after restrooms were built on the lobby level. After the theater closed the furnishings were sold to the Sawdusters for their Roxy theater only to have their theater burn a few years later. The projection equipment and screen were sold off and are in storage in Coos Bay. Interestingly enough on the right side of the building if you were facing it has a great mural showing downtown coquille 100 years ago and the theater is in it.
Jack Ondracek owner of the Rodeo Drive-in Theater in Bremerton, Washington, operated this theater in the 1970’s.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/10493
As of 2024, demolished along with the building next to it.
Heavily edited from my April 25, 2020 (6:19 PM) comment:
The Liberty Theatre operated as early as 1918. It was remodeled on October 10, 1931, and CinemaScope was installed in November 1954. It was twinned during the 1970s and was renamed Coquille Valley Cinema. It was closed in the early-1990s when the furnishings were sold to the Sawdusters for their nearby Roxy Theater that was gutted by a fire a few years later in July 1994.