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  • Y-580425-2.  Amato’s Supper Club, 706 SW Main, southwest corner of Broadway & Main. April 25, 1958. The PCPA Portland Center for the Performing Arts is presently on the site.
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  • Y-580425-1.  Amato’s Supper Club, 706 SW Main, southwest corner of Broadway & Main. April 25, 1958. The PCPA Portland Center for the Performing Arts is presently on the site.
    Y-580425-1.tif
  • CS02185.  Transit Mall construction SW Fifth Ave. & Main. Jimmy Carter HQ. May 8, 1976
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  • Ackroyd C01063-8. "Congress Hotel. Exterior of building with models. April 11, 1965" (1024 SW 6th, corner of Main. Demolished in 1970s, now site of the Congress Center, a skyscraper)
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  • 9120-07. SW Washington at Park Ave, looking east.  This is the core of Portland's Theatre district as it was in 1911.  The intersection one block in the background is Portland's main intersection from that era, 8th Ave. (now Park).  The Star Theatre, on the extreme left, is now O'Bryant Square.   On the right is Cordray's Theatre, in it's later days when it was known as the Empress and the Grand.  The heyday of these theatres was from 1900 to 1910, when Portland's population more than doubled and good crowds supported seven nights and three matinees a week.  In 1909 the Portland City Council, responding to a disastrous theatre fire in Chicago, ruled that all theatres in frame buildings must cease operations.  The April 1911 deadline doomed the theatre district, and although several new vaudeville stages were constructed in other parts of downtown, the "stock companies" lost out to motion picture in the market and were all but gone by the great depression.  The building in the background under construction is the Wilcox building, built 1911
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