Strand Theatre
Union Square and Middle Street,
Lewiston,
ME
04240
Union Square and Middle Street,
Lewiston,
ME
04240
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Previously operated by: Paramount Pictures Inc.
Previous Names: Lewiston Theatre, Union Square Theatre
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The Lewiston Theatre was opened December 31, 1914. On January 1, 1916 it was renamed Union Square Theatre. On March 24, 1917 it was renamed Strand Theatre. By the early-1940’s it was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Mullins & Pinanski. The Strand Theatre was closed in 1962 and has since been demolished.
Contributed by
Billy Holcomb / Billy Smith / Don Lewis
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The May 4, 1985, issue of the Lewiston Journal ran a vintage photo of the Lewiston Theatre which can be seen at Google News.
A brief item about the Union Square Theatre appeared in the September 23, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World:
An article in the February 4, 19611, issue of the Lewiston Evening Journal said that the Lewiston Theatre had opened on December 30, 1914.
19611?
Lewiston passed through a time warp in 1961, briefly occupying the year 19611. The good news is that they didn’t bring any future human diseases back with them, but unfortunately they did bring the computer keyboard glitches which have since plagued the world.
OCRon mentions in his post of 5/22 the Priscilla Theatre. Recently I began looking through the MGM Theatre Report cards in the Theatre Historical Society archive. (cards for ME,NH, RI and VT). So far I have found only one which does not have a listing here in CT – the Priscilla in Lewiston-Auburn. There may be others, too. The report card says the Priscilla is on Pine St., but 116 Blake, around the corner, may have been the correct address. It was operating in 1941.
There’s much information about the Priscilla (later Belview and then Parkview) on this web page from the Cinema Data Project. If someone wants to submit it to CT go ahead. I’m being run off my feet lately and won’t have the time.
Joe, are you related to the Joe Vogel that wrote “Man In The Music”?
I’m not related to the author Joe Vogel as far as I know. It’s not an extremely common surname, but it’s not extremely rare either, so probably only a modest percentage of the Vogels in the United States would be my distant cousins. I grew up in Los Angeles, and back in the 1960s people I met who were in the movie industry sometimes asked if I was related to the Joe Vogel who was then the head of MGM, but I wasn’t.
1951 photo added courtesy of TimePassagesNostalgia.com.
This opened as the Lewiston theatre on December 31st, 1914 and renamed Union Square on January 1st, 1916 and Strand on March 24th, 1917 and closed in 1962. Grand opening ad posted.