The Capitol Theatre opened in downtown Portland in July 1928.

Portland’s street numbering changed in 1933.

Over the years, the theatre declined into vaudeville and second-run house status. The theatre closed sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The noted Los Angeles stripper Tempest Storm (and her husband John Becker) acquired in 1952 and operated the Capitol as a strip venue.

Paul Forsythe had been operating the Blue Mouse Theatre since 1940, but lost control of the property in 1958 when the building was sold. At that time, Forsythe acquired the closed Capitol Theatre, renamed it the Blue Mouse Theatre in August 1958 and continued his motion picture business in that venue.

References: Cinema Treasures website; Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society website.