Parkview Theatre
90 Pine Street,
Lewiston,
ME
04240
90 Pine Street,
Lewiston,
ME
04240
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Reopened again as the Parkview Cinema on June 12th, 1981 with “Raiders of the Lost Ark” with the management outbidding Cinema Centers. Another ad posted.
Reopened again as the In-Town on January 2nd, 1981. Grand opening ad posted.
Paris switched over to adult movies on July 24th, 1974, after the new cinemas opened and closed in 1975. It reopened as the Belview on May 21st, 1975. Another ad posted.
Reopened by Esquire Theatres of America as Paris Cinema on March 22nd, 1968 with “The Graduate”
Closed August 8th, 1954 by Maine & New Hampshire theatres
Priscilla theatre closed 06 Aug 1954, Fri Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine) Newspapers.com
and reopened on November 22nd, 1957. Grand opening ad posted.
Opened on May 26, 1919 with Fannie Ward in the 7-Part reel “Common Clay” along with a drama reel “By Indian Post”, a comedy reel “Looney Lions And Monkey Business”, a Kinogram newsreel, and a performance by the theater’s own orchestra named after the theater itself.
In a long list of theater circuits in the 1942-43 Motion Picture Almanac, this theater, as the Priscilla, is listed in Lewiston Maine as part of John Ford Theatres, a Paramount affiliate, along with the Empire,Music Hall and Strand. All 4 theaters are also listed as being run by Maine and New Hampshire Theatres of Boston.
There is a history of this theater at the Cinema Data Project website which has detailed histories of certain movie theaters in Maine. The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for this theater when it was the Priscilla. It’s Card # 392. Address is Pine Street, Auburn. There is an exterior photo dated May 1941, The condition is Fair. The Priscilla was over 15 years old and was showing MGM product. There were 494 seats on the main floor and 234 in the balcony, total 728 seats.