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Alhambra Theatre (Portland, Oregon)

former movie theater in Portland, Oregon, United States

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6923996 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alhambra Theatre is a theatre building in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The venue was originally called the Alhambra upon its completion in 1913; subsequent names included Sabala's, the Mt. Tabor Legacy, and Mt. Tabor Theater. Alhambra Theatre was named after a now extinct volcano within Portland's city limits. In April 2016, the venue was permanently closed and subsequently became the QuarterWorld Arcade.

Editorial summary

“Alhambra Theatre (Portland, Oregon)” enters the record as former movie theater in Portland, Oregon, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alhambra, Theatre and Portland can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alhambra, Theatre and Portland.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Alhambra Theatre (Portland, Oregon)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alhambra, Theatre and Portland provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6923996. Authority coordinates are 45.512, -122.613. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1913 and 2016.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Alhambra Theatre (Portland, Oregon)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.