The Portage Theater
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
After being closed down for over three years and recently reopened about a month ago. It was closed down because it wasn't doing very well and it needed remodeling. It has a new owner now and they remodeled this classic old theater a bit. They only show films on Fri. nights (one showing only at 8 PM). . These films are either silent films or very old movies from the 1930s or 1940s. The first weekend they opened they showed films on Fri., Sat, and Sun, but for whatever reason they are limiting their screenings now to once a week starting up again July 21. In my opinion this is cetrtainly not what the neighborhood was expecting. I'll bet alot of folks thought after the much publicized reopening it was going to have a regular weekly schedule of first or second run modern films. Well this is what they are doing, the owner must be a huge silent/classic film buff and they will have a segmented audience come in. I hope they make it, the place itself is a gem that I believe was built around 1930 and has a pipe organ.