Dream Theater
Nome,
AK
99762
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The Dream Theater was opened in 1907. It was destroyed by a storm in 1913 and was rebuilt. It was destroyed by fire in 1934. It was rebuilt and was damaged by another storm in 1946. It was destroyed by fire for a second time on February 28, 1953, the final movie being Walt Disney’s “Peter Pan”.
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Bryan Krefft
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Photo taken late 1945 here: http://www.ruudleeuw.com/images/others/smith/dream_theatre.jpg
Is it known how the fire started?
In 1944 15 year old Alberta Schenck,an usher at the Dream, was fired from her job and jailed for standing up against the theater’s segregated seating and discrimination policies. Her story influenced the passage of the 1945 Anti-Discrimination Act in Alaska which predated the passage of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 by almost 20 years.
Uploaded a photo showing damage to the theater from a 1913 storm.
I uploaded a photo taken by my Father while he was stationed in Nome during WWII.
Ads proclaimed this to be the “Farthest Northwestern Theatre in U.S.”
Once damaged by a storm during the last week of October 1946, but reopened that November 11.
The Dream Theater was destroyed by a fire twice throughout its history. Once in 1934 and again on February 28, 1953.