Stars and Strikez Movie Theatre
19 Summer Street,
Dover-Foxcroft,
ME
04426
19 Summer Street,
Dover-Foxcroft,
ME
04426
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Demolished sometime after 2009.
This was generically known as the “Northern Lights Family Entertainment Center Cinemas” (or simply “Northern Lights Cinema”). When the cinema first opened its doors on August 1, 2000, it started life as a single-screener. But after a few months, it was twinned in November 2000 allowing for a wider selection. The theater originally has a total capacity of 244 seats (with 122 seats in each auditorium) but was downgraded over time to 218 seats (with 109 in each auditorium). Both screens featured installations of stereo sound. On January 2, 2001, the theater had its first sell-out since its grand opening.
The theater closed for the final time during the first week of September 2003.
There’s a lot of for-sale ads for this property around the Internet, which is what got me interested in this place. The Maine Urban Exploring Website at http://weirdmaine.wordpress.com/stars-and-strikez-dover-foxcroft-me/ has a lot more information than what is quoted here. The bowling alley-bar-theater-laundromat is on the opposite side of the street from the car lot in the above Google Streets View and you need to zoom in to see the one-story building next to the large “Bowl” sign. A tourist site says that only 17,000 people live in the county which is the size of Connecticut, which may explain this theater’s demise, although it seems to be a popular summer tourist destination.