Roadside Wire
Reviving the Bob White theater
- Published on Tuesday, 03 January 2012 16:19
This story comes to us by way of the Theater Historical Society Readerboard
On Southeast Foster Road, a neighborhood has high hopes for an old movie theater
By Steve Beaven, The Oregonian
At Nick Storie’s movie theater on Southeast Foster Road, the glamour is long gone. The building is 87 years old. Hundreds of seats are coated with dust. Metal bars cover the front door.
And in the past few months, Storie has filled one garbage bag after another. But he’s not discouraged.
“When you’re starting with this mess,” Storie says, “there’s no way but up.”
Storie is in the process of buying the old Bob White Theatre at 6423 S.E. Foster Road. And with the help of his new neighbors, he’s trying to figure out what it’s going to be.
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