Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… AdvertisementNortheast Harbor Library The theatre featured silent-film movies with live accompaniment on a $25,000 Robert Morgan 4-manual organ…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"In summers the Pastime also hosted plays, offering vaudeville between acts. The Park Theatre opened in Southwest in 1919, and soon, even Somesville…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"This opened on August 8, 1938, and provided another opportunity for people to attend plays, watch movies, and participate in other activities."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"We also explore the cultural shift in popular entertainment when Movies Come to the Island. Early Performance..."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"X Community Theatre Program, Guilford, July 3,1939Guilford Historical Society The Community Theatre was built and financed by Henry and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… a sign on the door giving the message that the theatre was closed because the piano was floating."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Guilford Community Theatre, 1939Guilford Historical Society Guilford continued to thrive in the 1940’s."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… in August, 1923 at the rear of the Majestic Theatre. Within 24 hours, 20 business facilities and dwellings burned, and 100 families were made…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"The Town Hall was used as a movie theatre, a play house, a school, and as a multiple purpose hall. An addition was added later to the back of the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… intended to revive the building as a community theatre, but it wasn’t meant to be. In October of that same year, the entire structure was destroyed…"