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"The Last Picture Show\nRestoring the Original 1920s Spirit to a Small-Town Movie Theater in Maine\nA sensitive restoration has brought back the original spirit and character to the Strand Theatre, a single-screen movie theater in Rockland, Maine, built in 1923.\n\nA bright new sign and marquee\u2014modeled after the originals\u2014were installed. False storefronts now display film posters, and the stores' square footage was incorporated into an expanded lobby.\n\"The building had a florist and a cigar and candy shop at the front,\" says managing director Donna Daly.\nThe theater's sign and marquee were replaced in the 1930s.\nExcavated from the basement, the lower lobby displays vintage photographs of the Strand.\nA concessions stand was designed for the upper lobby. Owners Matt and Ellen Simmons, who oversaw the renovation, preserved or replicated as many elements as possible, including the green wall color.\nThe auditorium's tin ceiling, discovered when a 1970s acoustical drop ceiling was torn out, \"was badly rusted from years of leakage,\" says Daly, \"so we had a new tin ceiling stamped in the exact same design.\" The fluted proscenium arch incorporates two original boards."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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