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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Ohio » Middleburg Heights » Mercury Theatre

Mercury Theatre

Middleburg Heights, OH
6801 Pearl Road
, Middleburg Heights, OH 44130 United States
(map)
Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Twin
Style: Art Deco
Function: Unknown
Seats: 800
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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This theatre opened in the 1940's, and was taken over by General Cinema in the late 1960's. Under GCC ownership, the theatre was twinned, and had shown first run, then subrun fare. GCC closed the theatre in the early 1990's, and an independent operater ran it as a sub-run house for another year or so.

The Mercury also had an art-deco Mercury figure on the marquee. In 1994 or so, the theatre was demolished. An Office Max is on the site now.
Contributed by Toby Radloff

YOUR COMMENTS

 
Does anyone have a photo (inside or out) they'd be willing to email to me? dwodeyla@comcast.net I remember a visit there during a GCC Manager Meeting tour in the late 1980's. I wish I'd had the forsight to bring a camera with me during those years!
posted by dwodeyla on Jul 28, 2004 at 6:03am
It's not an Office Max. It was Office Depot. They tore down the Mercury to build an Office Depot. Office Depot left the Cleveland market a year later and the building has been empty ever since.
posted by brustar on Jan 24, 2005 at 6:49pm
The building is not empty now--a mega JoAnn Fabric store.

I saw "The Wizard of Oz" in this theater and remember jumping out of my seat when the witch appeared! I ran to the back of theater and cowered behind the 'walls' that divided the seated area from the concession area (which I just a had a perfect vision of!).

...can't imagine all the films I enjoyed here. A darn shame it and the spirit of a neighborhood theater couldn't survive.
posted by NS on Mar 10, 2008 at 8:13am
I SAW MANY MOVIES AT THE mercury as a child and teen WAR AND PEACE (!) DADDY LONG LEGS, but usually went to the Berea. The Mercury had a nice style. What was really cool was the circular Peter Pan restaurant beside it in the parking lot. The Guggenheim of middleburg Hts. Too bad the only architecturally significant building in thne area are gone.Well, I hear Halle's is still there at Souithgl;and. I'm in LA now so only occassionally get to check it out.
posted by Archie D'Amico on Jan 23, 2009 at 1:18am
1982 photo of the Mercury Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c35%2c3%2c-1&catpagesize=25&ProductID=29511
posted by Chuck1231 on Apr 22, 2009 at 12:39am
1983 photo of the Mercury Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c35%2c3%2c-1&catpageindex=2&catpagesize=25&ProductID=29513
posted by Chuck1231 on Apr 22, 2009 at 12:40am
1977 photo of the Murcury Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c35%2c3%2c-1&catpageindex=27&catpagesize=25&ProductID=32180
posted by Chuck1231 on Apr 26, 2009 at 9:58pm
Here is another 1982 photo.

posted by Lost Memory on May 18, 2009 at 9:26am
And now Joann Fabrics occupies the building where the Mercury Theater once stood.
posted by Hotspace on Nov 4, 2009 at 10:45am
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