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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Portland's last movie palace became its symphony hall - sign, Wurlitzer legend and all. The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall at 1037 SW Broadway opened on 8 March 1928 as the Portland Publix Theatre, a 1.5-million-dollar Italian Rococo Revival palace by Rapp and Rapp, the nation's premier theatre architects; opening night queued for hours to see the Greenwich Village Follies, hear a 46,500-dollar Wurlitzer and watch a silent comedy beneath crystal chandeliers and French-museum furnishings. Renamed ...