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A window card by the Strand Theater box office for movies during the week of August 14, 1931

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A box office window card advertising the movies playing at the Maynard Theater during the week of October 11, 1931. (The Maynard Theater was located in the Gruber's Block on Main Street)

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A box office window card for the Maynard Theatre advertising the movies for the week of July 17, 1931, including Ex-Bad Boy and Sweepstakes

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Two damaged box office window cards advertising the movies showing at the Strand Theater the week of August 21, 1931 including: Her Mad Moment, Young Sinners, The Perfect Alibi, Ubangi, Sit Tight

(Between the two cards we can reconstruct all of…

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A box office window card advertising the movies showing at the Maynard Theater the week of July 24, 1930 including: Across the World, Children of Chance, Alias the Bad Man

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An account of how motion pictures (movies) came to Maynard: from the silent picture shows of the early 1900s to the arrival of talking motion pictures in 1913 to multiple theaters in Maynard during the 1920s.

Maynard Theatre Movie Poster - 1931
The Maynard Theatre was on the second floor of the Gruber Building, 177 Main St.

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Movies playing at the Rialto the week of May 17th, 1926. The Rialto Theatre was originally Colonial Hall, upstairs of 60 Main Street.

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A heavily weathered box office window card announcing movies at Maynard Theater (Gruber's Block) during the week of May 10th, 1931

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A box office window card advertising the movies playing at the Maynard Theater (in Gruber's Block) the week of November 3, 1930

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A poster announcing the movies playing at the People's'Theater (on Nason Street) during the week of Oct 11, 1931, including the Marx Brothers "Monkey Business"

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A black and white photo of People's Theater taken at the 25th Anniversary of the Theater's opening in 1921. It opened May 6, 1921. The manager was James Ledgard and was owned by a number of local businessmen.

The movie playing is "The Enchanted…

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Leo Comeau is in the straw hat, the keystone cop is unknown. No information available about the nature of the event.

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Colonial Hall, above 63 Main St., became the Strand Theater.

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A poster (likely a lobby card given the condition)

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People's Theater poster for the movie "Black Diamond Express" (studio issued poster with theater information pasted to the top)

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Movie poster for "Painting the Town" at People's Theater. (The movie is also known as "Hot Heels")

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A Riverside Theater movie poster for "Her Marriage Vow" which was released in 1924. The showtimes for the specific theater were added to the top of the poster and are missing.

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A box office window card showing the movies playing at the People's Theatre the week of August 21 1922. These silent movies are some of the first films shown at the newly constructed theater.

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A partial poster from the Strand Theater