Kiggins Theatre
Where: 1011 Main St., Vancouver.
Featuring: Art-house films, revivals, special events with lots of audience participation, Tuesday Trivia Nights.
Capacity: 340 seats.
Tickets: $5 movies; special events usually $8.
History: Opened April 24, 1936 with a showing of “She Married Her Boss,” starring Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas. Designed by signature downtown Vancouver architect Day Walter Hilborn in Art Deco style and named for Vancouver John P. Kiggins.
Websites: kigginstheatre.net and facebook.com/newkigginstheatre
Liberty Theatre of Camas and Washougal
Where: 315 N.E. Fourth Ave., Camas.
Featuring: Second-run mainstream movies, some special screenings.
Capacity: 348-seat main auditorium; 26-seat Granada Studio (stadium seating).
Tickets: $4, except $3 on Tuesday “bargain night”; all 3-D movies are $1 more.
History: Opened June 1927 as the Granada Theatre with a showing of “Lost at the Front” starring George Sidney and Charlie Murray. Designed by architect P.M. Hall Lewis of Portland; the building originally had a large stage for live performances, a pipe organ and seating capacity of 800.
Website: camasliberty.com
Old Liberty Theater
Where: 115 North Main, Ridgefield.
Featuring: Live music, special events.
Capacity: 200 seats.
Tickets: Usually $15 to $20.
History: Built as a birthday present for a returning war veteran and opened April 25, 1946, as the Liberty Theater, showing “The Bandit of Sherwood Forest” with Cornel Wilde and Russell Hicks; its movie-screening era was brief. Don and Earleen Griswold bought the place in 1995 and were named Ridgefield’s Outstanding Citizens in 2009 for restoring its glory.