Dream Theater
Nome,
AK
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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.
Ads proclaimed this to be the “Farthest Northwestern Theatre in U.S.”
I uploaded a photo taken by my Father while he was stationed in Nome during WWII.
Uploaded a photo showing damage to the theater from a 1913 storm.
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.
Is it known how the fire started?
Photo taken late 1945 here: http://www.ruudleeuw.com/images/others/smith/dream_theatre.jpg