Keywords: Star Theater
Item 80798
Criterion & Star Tickets, Bar Harbor, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Raymond Strout through Northeast Harbor Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Ink on paper
Item 74454
Star Theater, Limestone, ca. 1947
Contributed by: Robert A. Frost Memorial Library Date: circa 1947 Location: Limestone Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
Exhibit
Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva
Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater
"It re-opened on Saturday, March 1, 2009. The theater still has three screens. The first movies that played at the re-opened theater were: “There Will…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Theater
"Less people came to the theater. In the mid 1950s, the owner decided to close the theater. The building was sold to the New England Telephone and…"
Story
Memories of working at the Criterion Theatre
by Vernon L. Cox
Working as a teenager with projectionest Roy Blake at the Criterion Theater
Story
Bert Gagne-from star athlete to community barber
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Bert’s personal account of his lifelong non-stop approach including his 60+ years as a barber.
