Empire Theatre

This theatre has been brought to the attention of CT members and I, for one, feel it should be saved as I don’t think another parking lot is what the community needs for their downtown ‘development’!

Just a small correction, on that page it lists the Empire as easily accessible to visitors of Poland Spring. There wasn’t one in Poland. Also, in my 47 years I never saw the theater resemble that postcard. None of that ornamentation was there when I first saw Bambi at age 4. I don’t know how long ago it was stripped off, but it had been a blighted eyesore for decades before it was torn down. it’s not the fault of the people who tore it down, it’s the fault of whoever took off the facade 50 or more years ago.

1986 photo of the empire Theatre.
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I saw the film “Rocky” here in late July 1977 for 99 cents, with a few co-workers of mine, on my first job, a summer job, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

I get my 30 year plaque or pin from the Corps of Engineers tomorrow.

In the 1942-43 Motion Picture Almanac, the Empire, along with the Music Hall,Strand and Priscilla in Lewiston, was being operated by John Ford, an affiliate of Paramount Theatres.