New Empire Theatre
318 Main Street,
Rockland,
ME
04841
318 Main Street,
Rockland,
ME
04841
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Paramount Pictures Inc.
Functions: Office Space, Retail
Previous Names: New Dreamland Theatre, Empire Theatre
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Located at the corner of Main Street and Oak Street. The New Dreamland Theatre was opened by 1910. It sat on Main Street and Oak Street in downtown Rockland. It showed movies and was vaudeville theatre, and continued after the Strand Theatre was built in the 1920’s. It was operating as the Empire Theatre by 1926. By the 1940’s it was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Mullins & Pinanski. It had closed by 1950.
The building is now occupied by a toy store and insurance offices.
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Michael Hallack
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I have 3 editions of Film Daily Yearbook;1941, 1943 and 1950 and this theatre is only listed in the 1943 edition as the Empire Theatre, operated by Paramount Pictures Inc under their subsidiary Mullins & Pinanski. In the 1941 edition they are also listed has operating it (in the Circuits listing), but it isn’t listed in the Rockland, ME section. There is also no seating capacity or address given for the Empire.
Paramount (through their subsidiary’s) also operated the Park and the Strand in Rockland.
Empire Theatre, 10 Oak Street, was managed by Fred M. Eugley, according to Sanborn’s City of Rockland Directory, 1912. In 1921 A.G. Packard was the manager (Julius Cahn-Gus Hill directory, 1921.) For more information, see http://www.cinemadata.org/theaters-buildings/Maine/EmpireTheater/Rockland/
Opened circa 1909 as the New Dreamland Theatre. Photo posted of sign pointing down Oak Street from Northbound Main Street for the New Dreamland Theatre. Photo added courtesy Ann L. Foss.