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SALEM — A half million dollars is going to the Wallowa History Center to update its Bear-Sleds Ranger Station, $1.5 million is going to the efforts to restore Pendleton’s Historic
PENDLETON â Victor Kucera didnât set out to write a book about the Rivoli Theatre.
It all started innocently enough at an anthropological conference in Washington six years ago when he noticed a seminar entitled âAn analysis of candy wrappers from the historic Rivoli Theater.â Intrigued, Kucera signed up.
âLittle did I know this moment marked the start of a multi-year book project,â he said later. âI should have run from the lobby. Instead, I took an early seat at the seminar.â
There he learned of findings by Eastern Oregon University students who spent a weekend earlier that year collecting debris from the Rivoli, an old movie house being renovated in Pendleton. They looked for old ticket stubs, vintage Milk Duds boxes and any other interesting detritus they could uncover.