Tower Theatre
835 NW Wall Street,
Bend,
OR
97709
835 NW Wall Street,
Bend,
OR
97709
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I was in Bend yesterday and visited the Tower Theatre. What a beautiful renovation—an Art Deco masterpiece! Thank you for allowing me to walk around the interior. You folks have much to be proud of.
Circa 1963 postcard added courtesy of Craig Addams.
Back in 1975 I worked as a young(ish) architect in Priteca’s office, here in Seattle. Benny Priteca was a specialist in theater architecture, and I saw many of his tracings for elaborate terracotta facing tiles and parapet caps. Years later, now an acoustical consultant, I was part of the design team for the 2004 renovation. Let me know— if you are a ‘local’— just how well the acoustics are working out. And thanks to all who have posted photos.
You really gotta love theatre managers.On the ad for the sci-fi movie “MAROONED” it states “HAS THE DAZZLING OUTER SPACE EFFECTS OF 2001,BUT WITH A STORY”. WHAT! I hope Nick doesn’t read this. “MAROONED” was a decent flick,but the manager sure did not like 2001. Love these old ads. oh,the second feature was “TIME FOR A KILLING”.
A fantastic view from 1947 of the Tower and Liberty Theaters in Bend, Oregon.
Correct on the Liberty, I will try and get an old 1947 photo
posted, which shows both theaters in their heyday Billy h
Correction: I should have said two doors to the RIGHT in Lost Memory’s posts… .
The ocher-colored building two addresses to the left of Lost Memory’s Apr. 7 (and other) photo postings is the former Liberty Theater. I recall being fascinated by it as a small boy in the mid-50s, when it had been closed for some time. Its ground floor was gutted later to provide a Sears store, but the balcony apparently remained untouched until very recently, when the upper stories were converted to condominiums. (With drug money; the building is in receivership with the feds, who are trying to sell it.)
Sorry to intrude on the Tower thread …
The renovation is complete and the theater re-opened January 30, 2004.
http://www.towertheatre.org