Kenton Theatre
8106 N. Denver Avenue,
Portland,
OR
97217
8106 N. Denver Avenue,
Portland,
OR
97217
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The 600-seat Chaldean Theatre opened in 1925. It was equipped with a Wurlitzer 2 manual 4 ranks organ. By 1932 it had been renamed Kenton Theatre. Still listed in 1955.
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The building is still standing, but listed as a “warehouse”.
“The first movie house [in Kenton] was in the back of Berg’s Store in 1911 (on the NE Corner of Kilpatrick and Denver). In 1925 it was moved to Denver and Schofield where the Chaldean Theater was built, and the theater was finally completed, they opened to a sold-out crowd. The electric sign in front of the theater was equal to any in the city of Portland and gave the business district of Kenton a metropolitan appearance when lighted.. A representative of the Multnomah Theater Corporation said that the theater in Kenton was second only to the Egyptian for beauty. He predicted it would be one of the finest picture houses on the east side of the river. The theater building had capacity for 600, with a balcony, manager’s offices, and even a separate glassed ‘cry room’ for mother’s with babies with a full view of the screen.”
From: https://historickenton.com/about-us/kenton-history/