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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
53715
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
9-21-1948
Format of Original
4 x 5" gelatin silver negative.
Description
The Empire Movie Theatre, 68 Oak Street, as it appeared in September 1948.
Elders Cafe, in distant background.
"The Empire Theatre, home of Portland's first 'talkies,' and remembered by older natives as the site of the Taylor Livery Stable and then as the Roll-Away Skating Rink was sold today by the Fannie L. Proctor estate to Ralph E. Snider of Maine Theatres Corporation."
[The selling price was reported as "nearly $100,000."]
Photo published in the Evening Express, 21 Sep 1948.
Recommended Citation
"Empire Movie Theatre, 1948" (1948). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Newspapers (Guy Gannett) Still Film Negatives. 18.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/18
Keywords
Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Theaters, Oak Street
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