Roseway Theater
7229 NE Sandy Boulevard,
Portland,
OR
67213
7229 NE Sandy Boulevard,
Portland,
OR
67213
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A November 2012 photo can be seen here.
A 2010 photo can be seen here.
The remodeled Roseway Theater projects digitally. It’s one of the better digital theaters – and a good choice for 3D movies, but there’s no chance of a film showing here.
It was a JESSE JONES THEATRE in 1956 owned by Jesse E.Jones in Portland.
The theater has 330 seats since its remodel.
Looks like the “Roseway” was restored to the orighnal neon instead of the plastic one in other photos. Smooth reader board instead on the corrigated one. Nice to see the restorations. This was always a favorite theater of mine when I lived in Portland. They had a very wide screen that originally could handle the old scope 2.55:1.
Very nice looking marquee and building.
Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ygmsve7
This is a 2009 photo.
Here are 1982 photos:
Photo1
Photo2
Another photo is here.
This site has a photo and information about the Smith theater organ installed in 1926.
The Roseway is open. Here is a photo.
Here is a brief article about the closing:
http://tinyurl.com/2goegn
The Roseway was “modernized” in the 1950s, with seating reduced to 462 to allow for larger chairs and more space between the rows, according to a full-page ad for Heywood-Wakefield Seating on page 808 of the 1957 Film Daily Year Book. The ad has three B&W photos, one of the marquee and two of the auditorium. The marquee photo shows a double bill of “The Littlest Outlaw” (first released in December, 1955) and “The Man Who Never Was” (first released in February, 1956).
This is a recent photo of the Roseway Theater.
My night-time image of the ROSEWAY’S unique signage.
www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/256970414