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KOIN Center 6
Photo from the Scott Neff collection
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Regal Cinemas
1440 SW Third
Portland OR 97201
(503) 225-5555
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| Record #2903 |
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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 curcuit 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 sleezy edges of downtown, and the Vanport in the suburban tenament housing project thrown up for WWII and occupied almost solely by blacks. 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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