Westgate 5 Theatre
3950 SW Cedar Hills Boulevard,
Beaverton,
OR
97005
3950 SW Cedar Hills Boulevard,
Beaverton,
OR
97005
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Moyer Theatres
Architects: John Jensen
Firms: WPH Architecture, Inc.
Previous Names: Westgate Theatre
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News About This Theater
- May 24, 2012 — Celebrating the Original STAR WARS on its 35th Anniversary
- May 21, 2010 — Happy 30th, "Empire"
- Aug 21, 2009 — "Alien" 30th Anniversary
The Westgate Theatre was opened August 16, 1967. It was closed as the Westgate 5 Theatre on November 20, 2005 and was demolished in April 2006.
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David DeCoteau
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Recent comments (view all 18 comments)
August 16th, 1967 grand opening ad uploaded here.
Coate is correct. I remember seeing CEOTTK at the Eastgate, and Star Wars was at the Westgate for a long time. BTW I do remember that Superman was the movie that followed at the Westgate when Star Wars finally ended its run
Good history on the theatre,,,.
javert…
It was actually Richard Attenborough’s “Magic” that replaced “Star Wars.” “Superman” followed “Magic” a month later.
I’d love to see photos of the inside of the theater back then, especially when Star Wars was there.
Back in the late 70s and early 80s, my brother and I used to take Tri-Met in to Beaverton to see movies at the Westgate because it was the nicest one in the area. At that time it was only three auditoriums — one large one to the right, and two smaller ones to the left. Later they renovated it and divided the large auditorium into three, for a total of five screens.
Responding to javert; the inside of the Westgate back in the 1970s was pretty awful. The colors were oranges and earth tones, as I remember them. There were these huge chandeliers in the lobby. They were made from several orange plastic globes hanging down on wires at different heights. They were covered with that sparkly stuff they used to put on things. The globes were not solid, more like they were made with strips of plastic molded together kind of randomly, so there were holes through them in places. In the 80s or 90s when they split the large auditorium up into smaller ones, they remodeled and took all that out. I google a bunch of things trying to find an image of something similar, but I could not find anything close.
I was looking at the grand opening ad someone posted, and I noticed it clearly states there were two auditoriums. In the 1970s and early 1980s there were three; two on the left, and one big one on the right. At some point the one on the left must have been a single larger one.
I also saw “Chariots of Fire” at the Westgate. It was a great big-screen experience. That cool electronic music sounded really good cranked up loud in the biggest theater in the area.
As cited in my recent retrospective article, “A Force to be Reckoned With”, the Westgate held the longest-running engagement of the original “Star Wars.”
Here’s the link to a new podcast which focuses on the Westgate and its long run of the original “Star Wars.”
The big screen was split up into three cinemas and all five screens were upgraded to THX standards on November 20th, 1992. Grand opening ad posted.