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| Object Name | Oakway Cinema (Eugene, Oregon)
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| View | exterior |
| Related Work (Part Of) | Oakway Center (Eugene, Oregon)
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| Date | 1967
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| Decade | 1960-1969
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| City | Eugene
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| County | Lane
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| State/Province | Oregon
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| Country | United States
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| Photograph Date | 1968
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| Cataloger | Edward H. Teague |
| Object Type | architecture
built works
views (visual works)
exterior views
theaters (buildings)
motion picture theaters (buildings)
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| Reference | Eugene Register-Guard, 27 November 1967, p. 1B; Register-Guard, 3 March 1987 |
| Notes | The 12,800 square foot Oakway Cinema opened on November 30, 1967 with one of the largest screens on the West Coast. It closed in the spring of 1987. The film Personal Best (Warner Brothers, 1982) premiered at Oakway Cinema on February 17, 1982, according to Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: the story of Oregon's legendary coach and Nike's cofounder, Rodale, 2006, p. 326. |
| Metadata Notes | Description of this work is based initially on documentation supplied by the image provider. It is often the case with gift slides that very little information is provided. Review and updating of descriptive information by the collection cataloger is ongoing. |
| Digital Collection | Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
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| Source Collection | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Image Source | Visual Resources Collection, Architecture & Allied Arts Library, University of Oregon Libraries |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries |
| File Name | pna_20417.jpg |
