May
18
2022
Martha Watson - Theater Owner
A woman theater owner? Pre-suffrage? Love to see it.
Woman-owned Theaters
Theaters owned and managed by women.
Display Name
Elizabeth Peterson
Jun
30
2021
A Big Year for the Arcade Theatre
Display Name
Elizabeth Peterson
Nov
06
2019
“A Pippin of an Exhibitor” in Ontario, Oregon
Dorothy Jaquish was a movie theater prodigy, as this article in the exhibitors’ trade journal Motion Picture World explains. When she was still a teenager, she took over running the Dreamland Theatre in remote Ontario, Oregon, after her father died in 1918.
The Dreamland opened in the small (pop. 1,248 in 1910) eastern Oregon town of Ontario in September 1912, and was the sole movie theater in town through the 1910s.