Park Theatre Bldg., Southwest Harbor, Me. 3t.

Park Theatre Bldg., Southwest Harbor, Me. 3t.

Park Theatre Bldg., Southwest Harbor, Me. Street Scene, Buildings, Stores, Signs [Kodaks], Traffic Signs [School Go Slow, Drive with Care Manset Seawall Tremont Ellsworth, Slow Keep Right Boat Wharf], Park Theatre, Cars, Telephone Poles The Park Theater and Jim's Place were at the corner of Main Street and Clark Point Road. The movie being shown, "Abraham Lincoln - A First National Picture, "a short with Frank McGlynn Jr. as Lincoln, was filmed in 1924. R. M. Norwood built the theater in 1918-19 for Byron Mayo, whose son Douglas ran it after his father's retirement. The Motion Picture Trade Directory of 1929 reported that the Park Theater had 285 seats and showed movies on Wednesday and Saturday nights, with no matinees; a ticket cost 25 cents. In 1932 Howard Ernest Robinson had the deed for the theater; he ran it in the evening and fished during the day to make ends meet. The theater closed about 1970. The building became the McEachern and Hutchins Hardware Store. It was shown in the film The Perfect Storm, and had dormers added to the second floor for the film. In 2008 Les and Janet McEachern tore the building down to make room for a larger, more modern store. In the intersection is the American Gas Accumulator Company's acetylene traffic beacon, a flashing light that worked without wiring. The "silent policeman" directs motorists to Ellsworth and nearby towns and cautions them to keep right and "Drive with Care." The device was first advertised in 1922 and became popular in Maine. Ellsworth and Bar Harbor had them. Southwest Harbor's beacon was later moved to Manset Corner where it was afterwards hit by an automobile and pushed into the water.