Woodlawn’s Newly Open Lobby Bar Brings New Life to a Former Silent Movie Theater

In the Dekum triangle, at the heart of the Woodlawn neighborhood, touches of Portland history live on in new ways, from a wood-fired Italian American restaurant located inside a former fire station to a historic ballroom and public house originally built in 1909. Now, Jessica and Kirk Kelley have given another piece of the neighborhood — an old silent movie theater — a new purpose. The Lobby Bar opened on May 11, acting as a cocktail-fueled, welcome watering hole for the forthcoming Dekum Street Theater.

“The idea was that [the bar] would serve as a place for pre- and post-show drinks and food,” Jessica Kelley says. “It is going

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