Dream Theater

Nome, AK 99762

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Dream Theater

The Dream Theater was opened in 1907. It was destroyed by a storm in 1913 and was rebuilt. It was destroyed by fire in 1934. It was rebuilt and was damaged by another storm in 1946. It was destroyed by fire for a second time on February 28, 1953, the final movie being Walt Disney’s “Peter Pan”.

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ChrisB
ChrisB on April 16, 2013 at 5:26 pm

Photo taken late 1945 here: http://www.ruudleeuw.com/images/others/smith/dream_theatre.jpg

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on November 29, 2017 at 4:56 am

Is it known how the fire started?

robboehm
robboehm on March 27, 2018 at 5:54 pm

In 1944 15 year old Alberta Schenck,an usher at the Dream, was fired from her job and jailed for standing up against the theater’s segregated seating and discrimination policies. Her story influenced the passage of the 1945 Anti-Discrimination Act in Alaska which predated the passage of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 by almost 20 years.

robboehm
robboehm on March 27, 2018 at 5:56 pm

Uploaded a photo showing damage to the theater from a 1913 storm.

bobwest
bobwest on May 30, 2018 at 11:00 am

I uploaded a photo taken by my Father while he was stationed in Nome during WWII.

Gerald A. DeLuca
Gerald A. DeLuca on August 21, 2021 at 1:47 pm

Ads proclaimed this to be the “Farthest Northwestern Theatre in U.S.”

50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on October 31, 2022 at 7:45 am

Once damaged by a storm during the last week of October 1946, but reopened that November 11.

The Dream Theater was destroyed by a fire twice throughout its history. Once in 1934 and again on February 28, 1953.

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