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Salem Downtown State Street – Commercial Street Historic District ( ID01001067) MPS. Architecture of Ellis F. Lawrence MPS. NRHP reference No. 91001575. Added to NRHP. June 17, 1994 [1] The Elsinore Theatre is a 1,290-seat theatre located in Salem, Oregon, United States, that first opened on May 28, 1926.
Since then, numerous major motion pictures have been shot in the state, including F.W. Murnau 's City Girl (1930), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Animal House (1978), Stand by Me (1986), Free Willy (1993), and Wild (2014). Portland —Oregon's largest city—has been a major shooting location for filmmakers, and has been featured ...
The Columbus Day storm of 1962 (also known as the big blow of 1962, [ 2] and originally in Canada as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962. Typhoon Freda was the twenty-eighth tropical depression, the twenty-third tropical ...
The Northern Lights Theater Pub in South Salem will start showing first-run pictures starting Friday, a move the owners say they were forced to make. Northern Lights Theatre Pub, Salem's only ...
The Capitol Theater was located at 542 State Street in Salem, Oregon, United States. Part of the Bligh Building, it was built in the 1920s for vaudeville. During its heyday, it housed a Wurlitzer pipe organ, which is now in private ownership in Washington. [ 2][ 3] The theater was demolished in 2000, but the retail portion of the building, now ...
The historic Reed Opera House in downtown Salem has a number of local shops and dining establishments, as well as an art gallery. Salem has been awarded "Tree City USA" status by the National Arbor Day Foundation for 30 consecutive years for its dedication to urban forestry. [58] Salem was the first city in Oregon to receive the award. [59]
The Gilbert House Children's Museum is a private nonprofit 501 (c) (3) children's museum within Riverfront Park located in Salem, Oregon, United States . Founded in 1989. The museum has 16 hands-on S.T.E.A.M. exhibits, a 20,000 ft 2 Outdoor Discovery Area, field trips, STEM Workshops, membership opportunities, summer camps, and educational ...
The Valley of the Giants is a 51-acre (21 ha) forest preserve owned and managed by the Bureau of Land Management and is located in a remote portion of the Oregon Coast Range of Northwest Oregon in the United States, near the former company town of Valsetz. Receiving greater than 180 inches (4,600 mm) of rain annually, [1] the preserve is home ...