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Enjoying the NBA Action at Portland’s Paramount Theater, 1980

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Enjoying the NBA Action at Portland’s Paramount Theater, 1980

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Aug 11, 2022
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Enjoying the NBA Action at Portland’s Paramount Theater, 1980

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[Long before Toronto’s Jurassic Park Raptor and Golden State’s Thrive City, there was Portland’s Paramount Theater. For five fun-filled years (1977 to 1982), Trail Blazer diehards who couldn’t get into the always sold-out Memorial Coliseum could gather, though for an entry fee, at the Paramount on Broadway and Main. 

The old theater, built in 1927 and no…

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