Keywords: Movie Star
Item 11278
Hiawatha movie handbill, ca. 1952
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1952 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 80798
Criterion & Star Tickets, Bar Harbor, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Raymond Strout through Northeast Harbor Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Ink on paper
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The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island
"… was a brief but unsuccessful attempt to bring the Star back as a B-movie house in 1936 after which the space was reinvented as a nightclub, bowling…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater
"The first movie to play here was “Nancy Goes to Rio” and the first ticket was sold to Mrs. Mary Griffiths."
Story
Memories of working at the Criterion Theatre
by Vernon L. Cox
Working as a teenager with projectionest Roy Blake at the Criterion Theater
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My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
