Mor Theater
500 6th Street,
Umatilla,
OR
97882
500 6th Street,
Umatilla,
OR
97882
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The Mor Theater was opened in the late-1940’s. This was part of the Moore Theater Circuit in the early-1960’s.
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Ken McIntyre
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The theater was on the corner of E Street & 6th Street. As of 2012, the building still remains and has been a number of eating establishments over the years, a place for rummage sales, and as the linked photo above shows, a Greyhound station in the mid-1980’s.
Looking in the Google archives, one of the original owners of the theater was McClannahan Investments, a father and son-owned company. Archives show the existence of the Mor in the late 40’s. According to an article in the February 26, 1980 edition of the Tri-City Herald, the plan was to close the Mor that summer, which would make Umatilla residents have to see a movie in the nearby town of Hermiston, Oregon.
The July 17, 1948 issue of Boxoffice ran a brief item saying that work was progressing rapidly on the new theater being built by L. A. Moore at Umatilla, Oregon.
Closed May 29, 1980 with “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” The operator concentrated on the new Hermiston Tri-Cinema in nearby Hermiston that opened soon thereafter.