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MGM Farmington NH Strand Theatre Studio Card Photo Circa 1941 & 1950
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MGM Farmington NH Strand Theatre Studio Cards circa 1941 & 1950. The theater was located in what was known as the Pythias Block or Pythias Hall on Central Street. The building was a filled with much activity and housed many important Farmington businesses and organizations over its' life.
The card indicates that this was a Strand brand theater and that it belonged to the Boston branch. It indicates the town population was around three thousand people and that no other competing theater was present. It had been playing MGM films for fifteen years. It details that the theater was built around 1925 and that it could seat three hundred patrons. The card is signed. The 1950 card is mainly blank except the affixed photograph and some basic information that mirrors the card from 1941. It is not signed.
Size: 5" x 8"
The 1941 item is in the physical museum collection. The 1950 item is a digital file and it does no exist in the physical museum collection.
PLEASE NOTE: This resource was created during the 19th or 20th century. It has biases stemming from those periods.
FHS-Kyle Leach
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MGM-Metro Goldwyn Meyer
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MGM-Metro Goldwyn Meyer
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1941 & 1950
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1941 card purchased for the society in May of 2018. The purchase was partially funded by a gift from Turner Liberty Insurance. 1950 card is a digital representation and is not housed in the physical museum collection.
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It will not be lone un'M 'he was, besides the theater, a candy
Knights of PytMas Hall will be store, operated for years by Char
completely demolished and work lie whltehouse.
will begin on the parking lot that
Upstairs there was the MonIs to replace It. The lot will be tauck club, a club for sportsmen
for the use of bank customers where the businessmen of the day
and personnel and will alleviate, gathered for evenings of recrea
somewhat,
Farmlngton's park tion and to plan the annual min
ing problem.
strel shows that attracted poople
The people of Farmlngton rea from all the surrounding towns.
lize that this a problem that cries
There were the Pythian Sisters,
for a solution. They know that the who sponsored, among other things
building has been empty and use an annual masquerade ball that
l e s s for some time. They watch was one of the social highlights
with clinical interest the skill of the season.
full engineering of the Charles
There was the theater where
DlPrlzlo crew as the building Is we saw "The Perils of Pauline"
taken apart piece by piece, In or for the last time and "Gone withder to avoid Injury to workers The Wind" for the first time.
or passeruys and damage to close According to our age and inclina
ly adjacent buildings. But for many tions, we went there to laugh,
there Is also a feeling of nostal cry, hold hands or stamp, clap
gia as they watch the death of and hoot but always to enter a
a landmark.
more glamorous world than the
The charred wood that has been one we left outside.
exposed in the course of demoli
The building is still called the
tion is a reminder of the fire "K of P " Hall, but Harmony Lodge
that destroyed much'of the or has long been dissolved and Us
iginal building in 1914. It was members have affiliated with the
William Woare who had it r e East Rochester lodge. At one time
built and then later sold the build Harmony was the second largest
ing to Harmony Lodge #11, Knights lodge in the state, with over 2S0
of Pythias. It changed hands again members. The last Chancellor
and finally was purchased by Wal Commander, "Hap" Lougee, says
ter Young, who continued to op that to the best of his knowledge
e r a t e the theater as he had been there are only 7 members left,
doing long before he bought the the oldest of whom is Walter
building. Those were the years Pulsiiep. who Joined in 189S and
when the building was a busy and will be 95 next spring.
an active place.
But all that was yesterday.
Today we are curious about the
The offices were filled, with a
procession of business and pro mechanics of the demolition of
fessional men - Arthur Wlggln, such a large structure.
attorney, Oliver Baxter, real e s
Tomorrow we will be grateful
tate dealer; Dr. L. A. Clafkson, for extra parking spaces that will
dentist; Dr. Joseph McLaughlin j help relieve the congestion on the
and later Dr. Lord, to mention street during peak hours,
a few. On the street floor there
And so sentiment gives way to
progress.
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1962 Farmington News Article Pythias Hall Torn Down
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A Farmington News article from page 21 dated 1962 covering the tearing down of the Pythias Hall. Over the years the hall was home to a candy store, movie theater, offices for Attorney Wiggin, Doctor Lord, and the dentist Doctor Clarkson. The Montauk Sports Club, Pythian Sisters, and the Harmony Lodge also called the building home at one time or another. Most of the building burned in a fire in 1914, but was rebuilt. Before being demolished, to make way for a parking lot, it had been vacant for some time.
This item is a digital file and it does not exist in the physical museum collection.
FHS-Kyle Leach
PLEASE NOTE: This resource was created during the 19th or 20th century. It has biases stemming from those periods.
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Farmington News
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Farmington News
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1962
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