Carey Theatre
1422 North Carey Street,
Baltimore,
MD
21217
1422 North Carey Street,
Baltimore,
MD
21217
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Located on North Carey Street the Carey Theatre was opened in September 1915. It operated as a Negro theatre. It was closed in 1953, and converted into a church. The church had moved out by 1970, and the empty building was demolished in 1971-1972 to make way for a school.
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Chuck Van Bibber
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The Carey Theatre was one of the first Negro theatres to operate, opening in early 1916.
Photo of the Carey Theatre.
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This website has photos of the Carey Theater.
Here is a 1925 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/mhknl
The theater is listed at 1442 N. Carey in this archival item:
http://tinyurl.com/5un52a
Unless the street was renumbered at some point, that address is incorrect and so is the one given above. The Carey is listed in the Film Daily with an address of 1422 North Carey Street and an ad on the Kilduff website that I linked to on Oct 7, 2005, gives an address of 1422 North Carey Street.
I attended the Carey Theater a many a Saturday…stayed all day watching my favorite western stars, Charles Starrett, Wild Bill Elliott,etc., those memorable “Purple Monster Strikes” chapter serials, cartoons, and those great Columbia Comedy Shorts. There were vendors who walked the isles with large cardboard boxes of goodies for sale strapped to their shoulders.