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Criterion & Star Tickets, Bar Harbor, ca. 1935

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… Harbor Library The theatre featured silent-film movies with live accompaniment on a $25,000 Robert Morgan 4-manual organ."

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Main Street through "the village," Strong, ca. 1890

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… minstrel shows and the movie theater, showing silent films accompanied by a local piano player. The town did not sell liquor but did have a beauty…"