Mayfair Theatre
69 Main Street,
Bridgton,
ME
04009
69 Main Street,
Bridgton,
ME
04009
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Cinema Tour gives 69 Main Street as the address of this house. The entrance of the new Magic Lantern is around the corner on Depot Street.
The Mayfair Theatre opened on June 5th, 1929 as the Meserve Theatre. Later operating as the Mayfair for a time, it was eventually renamed the Brookside Theatre, and finally the Magic Lantern Theatre. In 1990, the theater’s stage was closed and a second screen was added. The Magic Lantern Theatre closed on October 2nd, 2005, and the aged building, parts of which dated back to 1856, was demolished on February 7th, 2006. On the cleared site rose the new Magic Lantern Theatre, a three-screen operation which pays tribute to its predecessor by calling its three auditoriums the Meserve, the Mayfair, and the Brookside.
This history, and a bit more detail, can be found on this page of the Magic Lantern’s web site. There is also one historic photo of the original theater building.