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Biddeford, Maine History, Genealogy and Trivia
Bobo the Clown's real name was Ron Starkey (he lives in Biddeford and has been a clown in Greater Portland since 1980).
The Biddeford City Theater was one hundred years old in 1996.
One Minute to Play, a movie about a football star, was shown at the Biddeford City Theater in 1926.
There are 684 seats are in the Biddeford City Theater, a National Historic Landmark.
Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Fred Astaire, and Roy Rogers and his trusty horse Trigger, are stars that made personal appearances at the Biddeford City Theater.
The bowling alleys billed as Maine's "first streamlined alleys" were Biddeford's Twentieth Century Lanes, opened in 1938.
Town Nicknames: Twin Cities with Saco, ME
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