Waldo Theatre
916 Main Street,
Waldoboro,
ME
04572
916 Main Street,
Waldoboro,
ME
04572
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“I have just seen one of the greatest emotion [sic] pictures of my life… I am filled with song and tears and I am sitting on a mountain peak watching a new sun rising over this land … with a new insight on kindness, greatness—a new realization of the meaning of truth and freedom.” (Theater owner C.T. Cooney, Jr. in the November 4th, 1939 edition of the Motion Picture Herald on watching Frank Capra’s "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”)
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Waldo; it’s Card # 454. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken March 4, 1941. Condition is Excellent. The report says it opened in 1936 and was showing MGM movies. There were 260 seats downstaira and 187 in the balcony; total 447 seats. 1940 population was 2,497.