Pettengill's Opera House
Sewall Street,
Island Falls,
ME
04747
Sewall Street,
Island Falls,
ME
04747
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Pettengill’s showed films and also hosted operatic and vaudeville productions in the teens and twenties.
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Ken McIntyre
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Listed as the Opera House in the 1941, 1943 and 1950 editions of Film Daily Yearbook with a seating capacity of 300.
This website claims that movies were shown here from 1919 to 1965.
Pettengill’s Hall, which is also called the Island Falls Opera House, is also one of the Town’s historic sites. This building was the center of the Town’s entertainment activities. It has been closed for many years, but was once filled with the town’s people, who enjoyed the movies, and traveling entertainment. Moving pictures were shown in Pettengill’s Hall from 1910 to 1965. The old movie projector is still there with several films which were the last to be shown.
Here is a photo, circa 1920s:
http://tinyurl.com/2w4wxk
This theater is not demolished.
I’m always amazed when someone lists a theater as demolished and it has no address. Unless your familiar with the area, you can’t verify the status of a building when no address is given.
My mother remembers seeing movies here in the 40’s.