Keywords: Movie Palaces
Item 27954
Dreamland Theater, Front Street, Bath, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print
Item 28486
Bath Opera House advertisement for May 14, 1934
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1934-05-14 Location: Bath; Bath Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House
"Theaters were often called “Movie Palaces” in the early 20th century when they were new and truly beautiful."
