Theater

This early theater appears on the 1912 Sanborn. It was located in the southern half of a two story brick commercial building constructed sometime between 1885 and 1891. The 1905 map shows a furniture store here.

Assuming this theater was still operating in 1914-15, the AMPD lists three possibilities. The Palace Theater and Pastime Theaters are both listed on ‘Main St’, which never existed, and likely refers to Nickerson St. There is also an Electric Theatre with no address information. One of the theater names may have belonged to a long-vanished opera house one block up on the other side of the street.

The 20th century has been unkind to Nickerson. Downtown is almost completely destroyed, with only two small two story buildings and a few shopfronts remaining of the two block downtown. A dull modern post office occupies most of this portion of the block today.

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