The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Lisbon Theatre; it’s Card # 397. No street address listed. There is an exterior photo dated July 8, 1947. Condition is not listed; seating capacity is not listed. There is a note that it was remodeled in 1947. (But remodeled from what?) Lisbon’s population was 4,000.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Jones O.H.; it’s Card # 385.
Address is Main Street. There is an exterior photo dated Feb. 5, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report states that it opened in 1916, was showing MGM films, and had 400 seats. The 1940 population was 1,700.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Town Hall; it’s Card # 381. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken March 24, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report says it opened in 1920, was showing MGM films, and had 390 seats. The 1940 population was 1,100.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for Martin’s Hall; it’s Card # 366. Street address is not given. There is an exterior photo dated July 30, 1947. Condition is not given. The report says it opened in 1915 and had 250 seats. The 1940s population was 1,800.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the St. Charles; it’s Card # 444. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo dated April 9, 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says it opened in 1937, was showing MGM movies, and had 340 seats. 1940 population was 1,489.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Riverside; it’s Card # 437. But no one filled the report out, so there is no info. There is an exterior photo which is undated but probably taken sometime between 1946 and 1951.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Stonington Opera House; it’s Card # 449. Address is “West St.” (incorrect). There is an exterior photo dated May 19, 1941. Condition is Poor. Tre report says it opened in 1917, was showing MGM films, and had 300 seats. The 1940 population was 1,400. Today, the address is 1 Opera House Lane, at the end of Main Street.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Park; it’s Card # 447. But no one filled it out, so there is no information, only an undated exterior photo probably taken sometime between 1946 and 1951.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Stanley Theatre; it’s Card # 388. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken March 6, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report says that the theater was remodeled in 1938, was showing MGM product, and had 300 seats. The 1940 population was 900. The name was changed to Playhouse after 1941.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the New; it’s Card # 423. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken April 8, 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says that the New opened in 1940, was showing MGM films, and had 370 seats. The 1940 population was 1,500. Usually, when a theater was only one year old, it would be described as being in “Good” or “Excellent” condition, but such was not the case here.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Pastime; it’s Card # 413. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo dated Jan. 31, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report says it opened in 1913 and was showing MGM films.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Playhouse; it’s Card # 412. Address is Water Street. There is an exterior photo taken Jan 22, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report says that it opened in 1917, was showing MGM product, and had 350 seats. The 1940 population was 2,000.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Neptune; it’s Card # 406. Address is Main St. in McKinley (former name for Bass Harbor). There is an exterior photo dated Jan 31, 1941. Condition is Good. The report states that it opened in 1931 (incorrect), that it was not showing MGM films, and had 300 seats. The 1940 year-round population was 500.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Dreamland; it’s Card # 399. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken May 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says it opened over 15 years ago; was showing MGM films, and had 342 seats on the main floor and 145 in the balcony, total 487 seats. The 1940 population was 3,100.
The Liberty in Bath is listed in the CinemaData Project. They have info from trade journals in the 1920s- seating capacities of 500 or 700,and that it was a Famous Players affiliate.
The theater was in a large 3-story frame building which looks like a former mill converted to commercial use. The two people who created the CinemaData Project composed a condensed list of Maine theaters in a 1991 issue of Marquee Magazine. They listed an “Opera House” in Oakfield which had 300 seats and was located in a 3-story frame building. But in their CinemaData Project site, there is no Opera House or Oakfield Theatre in Oakfield. This seems curious, unless they have listed it under a third name ??
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Oakfield Theatre; they are Cards # 415 & 416. Each card has a photo of the same building from different angles. One photo is undated, but the other was taken on August 1, 1947. The street and the condition of the theater is not given. The report says it dates from 1919 and had 225 seats. The 1940s population was 1,000.
The Community was a popular family-owned movie theater for a long while after it opened. I don’t know if it was converted from an existing building, or if it was a purpose-built structure. After it closed, it became a roller rink. Then later, housing. But the housing may have been built on the site, and not in the original building.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Community; it’s Card # 376. Address is Main Street. There is an exterior photo taken on Feb. 18, 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says it opened in 1931, was showing MGM movies, and had 365 seats. The 1940 population was 1,700.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Fryeburg Theatre; it’s Card # 374. But no one filled it out, so there is no information, only an exterior photo probably taken sometime between 1946 and 1951.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Hy-Way (they spell it “Hi-Way”); it’s Card # 369. No street is listed. There is an exterior photo dated July 31, 1947. The Condition is not given. The report says it opened in 1915 and had 215 seats. The 1940s population was 1,500.
Listed under Laramie Wyoming in the 1897-98 Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide is the Opera House. Located on the ground floor, 600 seats, electric illumination, stage18 feet deep. H.E. Root, Mgr., W.H. Root, press agent. There were 2 daily newspapers, and one weekly. Hotels for show folk: Thornburgh, Custer. Railroad: Union Pacific. There was also a Maennerchor Hall in Laramie, 650 seats. 1897 population: 7,000.
It’s unusual for the IOOF- Odd Fellows to have two locations in the same small town, but probably not unheard of. Many of the auditoriums in their buildings became commercial movie theaters, and even live theaters like the one just 2 miles from where I live (Victor Theatre, East Weymouth MA).
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Lisbon Theatre; it’s Card # 397. No street address listed. There is an exterior photo dated July 8, 1947. Condition is not listed; seating capacity is not listed. There is a note that it was remodeled in 1947. (But remodeled from what?) Lisbon’s population was 4,000.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Jones O.H.; it’s Card # 385. Address is Main Street. There is an exterior photo dated Feb. 5, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report states that it opened in 1916, was showing MGM films, and had 400 seats. The 1940 population was 1,700.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Town Hall; it’s Card # 381. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken March 24, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report says it opened in 1920, was showing MGM films, and had 390 seats. The 1940 population was 1,100.
Another movie house in Limerick many years ago was the oddly-named Yarn Theatre, with 300 seats. I don’t know what the street address was.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for Martin’s Hall; it’s Card # 366. Street address is not given. There is an exterior photo dated July 30, 1947. Condition is not given. The report says it opened in 1915 and had 250 seats. The 1940s population was 1,800.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the St. Charles; it’s Card # 444. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo dated April 9, 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says it opened in 1937, was showing MGM movies, and had 340 seats. 1940 population was 1,489.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Riverside; it’s Card # 437. But no one filled the report out, so there is no info. There is an exterior photo which is undated but probably taken sometime between 1946 and 1951.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Stonington Opera House; it’s Card # 449. Address is “West St.” (incorrect). There is an exterior photo dated May 19, 1941. Condition is Poor. Tre report says it opened in 1917, was showing MGM films, and had 300 seats. The 1940 population was 1,400. Today, the address is 1 Opera House Lane, at the end of Main Street.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Park; it’s Card # 447. But no one filled it out, so there is no information, only an undated exterior photo probably taken sometime between 1946 and 1951.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Stanley Theatre; it’s Card # 388. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken March 6, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report says that the theater was remodeled in 1938, was showing MGM product, and had 300 seats. The 1940 population was 900. The name was changed to Playhouse after 1941.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the New; it’s Card # 423. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken April 8, 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says that the New opened in 1940, was showing MGM films, and had 370 seats. The 1940 population was 1,500. Usually, when a theater was only one year old, it would be described as being in “Good” or “Excellent” condition, but such was not the case here.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Pastime; it’s Card # 413. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo dated Jan. 31, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report says it opened in 1913 and was showing MGM films.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Playhouse; it’s Card # 412. Address is Water Street. There is an exterior photo taken Jan 22, 1941. Condition is Poor. The report says that it opened in 1917, was showing MGM product, and had 350 seats. The 1940 population was 2,000.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Neptune; it’s Card # 406. Address is Main St. in McKinley (former name for Bass Harbor). There is an exterior photo dated Jan 31, 1941. Condition is Good. The report states that it opened in 1931 (incorrect), that it was not showing MGM films, and had 300 seats. The 1940 year-round population was 500.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Dreamland; it’s Card # 399. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken May 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says it opened over 15 years ago; was showing MGM films, and had 342 seats on the main floor and 145 in the balcony, total 487 seats. The 1940 population was 3,100.
The Liberty in Bath is listed in the CinemaData Project. They have info from trade journals in the 1920s- seating capacities of 500 or 700,and that it was a Famous Players affiliate.
The theater was in a large 3-story frame building which looks like a former mill converted to commercial use. The two people who created the CinemaData Project composed a condensed list of Maine theaters in a 1991 issue of Marquee Magazine. They listed an “Opera House” in Oakfield which had 300 seats and was located in a 3-story frame building. But in their CinemaData Project site, there is no Opera House or Oakfield Theatre in Oakfield. This seems curious, unless they have listed it under a third name ??
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Oakfield Theatre; they are Cards # 415 & 416. Each card has a photo of the same building from different angles. One photo is undated, but the other was taken on August 1, 1947. The street and the condition of the theater is not given. The report says it dates from 1919 and had 225 seats. The 1940s population was 1,000.
The Community was a popular family-owned movie theater for a long while after it opened. I don’t know if it was converted from an existing building, or if it was a purpose-built structure. After it closed, it became a roller rink. Then later, housing. But the housing may have been built on the site, and not in the original building.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Community; it’s Card # 376. Address is Main Street. There is an exterior photo taken on Feb. 18, 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says it opened in 1931, was showing MGM movies, and had 365 seats. The 1940 population was 1,700.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Fryeburg Theatre; it’s Card # 374. But no one filled it out, so there is no information, only an exterior photo probably taken sometime between 1946 and 1951.
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Hy-Way (they spell it “Hi-Way”); it’s Card # 369. No street is listed. There is an exterior photo dated July 31, 1947. The Condition is not given. The report says it opened in 1915 and had 215 seats. The 1940s population was 1,500.
Listed under Laramie Wyoming in the 1897-98 Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide is the Opera House. Located on the ground floor, 600 seats, electric illumination, stage18 feet deep. H.E. Root, Mgr., W.H. Root, press agent. There were 2 daily newspapers, and one weekly. Hotels for show folk: Thornburgh, Custer. Railroad: Union Pacific. There was also a Maennerchor Hall in Laramie, 650 seats. 1897 population: 7,000.
It’s unusual for the IOOF- Odd Fellows to have two locations in the same small town, but probably not unheard of. Many of the auditoriums in their buildings became commercial movie theaters, and even live theaters like the one just 2 miles from where I live (Victor Theatre, East Weymouth MA).
The 1941 exterior photo on the MGM Theatre Report definitely shows the Pike Memorial Hall facade, so the Cornish Theatre was not a seperate building.