A Lifeline for the Liberty

In the early 1990s, if you wanted to see a movie at the Liberty Theatre in downtown Astoria on a chilly day, you needed to be prepared. The Liberty, built in 1925 as a palace for movies and vaudeville-style entertainment, had fallen on tough times. The building’s owner at the time, a Los Angeles lawyer and accountant who liked to travel to Oregon for duck hunting, declined to heat the theatre, so it wasn’t unusual for moviegoers to bring blankets to screenings. Read the full East Oregonian article here.