Portland SW Washington St. at Park Ave. looking East ca. 1911
This is the core of Portland's Theatre district as it was around 1911. The intersection one block in the background is Portland's main intersection from that era, 8th Ave. (now Broadway). The Star Theater, on the extreme left, is now O'Bryant Square. On the right is Cordray's Theatre, in it's later days when it was known as the Empress and the Grand. The heyday of these theatres was from 1900 to 1910, when Portland's population more than doubled and good crowds supported seven nights and three matinees a week. In 1909 the Portland City Council, responding to a disasterous theatre fire in Chicago, ruled that all theatres in frame buildings must cease operations. The April 1911 deadline doomed the theater district, and although several new vaudville stages were constructed in other parts of downtown, the "stock companies" lost out to motion picture in the market and were all but gone by the great depression. In the background is the Wilcox building, built in 1911, nearing completion.
3.25 x 5.5" nitrate negative
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