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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

Swedish churchgoers built it, longshoremen ran their union from it, and in 1987 it poured Oregon's first legal pint in a movie theatre - the Alamo Drafthouse credits the model as an inspiration. The Mission Theater, at 1624 NW Glisan Street in Northwest Portland, is where the McMenamins theater-pub concept was born. The building has lived three lives: dedicated in 1912 as the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant Church - the congregation stayed 42 years - it passed to the burly dockworkers of t...