Polar Bear Theatre
Barrow,
AK
99723
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Previous Names: Barrow Village Theatre
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Located in Barrow (aka Utqiagvik). Built in 1952 by the local Eskimo population as a community effort, the Barrow Village Theatre was a small single-screen theatre with bench seating, two heating plants - one burning oil, the other coal, to keep the patrons warm in the -40 degree temperatures outside. Primarily showing westerns, cartoons and newsreels, the theatre was decorated in Eskimo style. By 1981 it was operating as the Polar Bear Theatre.
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Barrow is located in far northern Alaska. In early- winter there is no daylight and the temp could easily drop to -40 degrees F. So a cinema would need a good heating plant. The local people are Inuit; “Eskimo” is no longer used.
It was still around in 1981 as the polar bear theater