Euclid Theatre
East Ninth Street & Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland,
OH
44115
East Ninth Street & Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland,
OH
44115
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The Euclid was built in 1914 by the same real estate developer, Joseph Laronge who at the same time was building the Mall theatre. The Euclid featured movies and a full orchestra on a moving stage. It did not become a first-run house since it was not owned by a national syndicate.
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In 1930 the Doan Theater is listed and only one Euclid Theater. The location given for the Euclid Theater is Euclid and Ivanhoe which would be the Euclid Theater in East Cleveland. I’m wondering if this theater was closed by 1930 or did it change names.
I think is possible, if not likely, that the Robert-Morton organ that you noted (above, on October 30, 2007) was actually installed in the East Cleveland Euclid. If so that might shed light on the opening date of of the East Cleveland Euclid. You have an entry on the Doan page that indicates an Austin organ went into that theater in 1919.
You might be right about that. No addresses are given on the organ list so I really don’t know which Euclid Theater the organ was installed in. I also think that the seat count given above is for the other Euclid Theater.
I am looking for any information on the Enjoy Theater in Cleveland, address unknown. It appears to have been built in 1911. Thanks.
http://tinyurl.com/yexnp4f
Loew’s Euclid opened on April 20th, 1919. ad to come
Thanks Mike,looking foward to seeing it.
However, the ad for Loew’s should be posted on the Doan Theatre page – /theaters/17429/; this Euclid Theatre was never a Loew’s operation.
Grand opening for the Euclid is at View link
You are right, CWalczak, It was never a Loew’s
Thanks for the ad, Mike; it answers a question that dave-bronx and I have wondered about, specifically, on which of the corners at Ninth and Euclid was this rather short-lived Euclid actually located? The ad indicates that the theater was next to the Lenox Building. The Lenox Building (spelled in some old sources as Lennox) was torn down to build the building that I remember as the Union Commerce Bank Building, now the Huntington Bank. That means that the theater was on the northeast corner or very near to it on Euclid. I would guess then that this Euclid Theater was also torn down to clear space for the bank, unless it was located where there are now some lower rise office buildings next to the Huntington Bank just east of it on Euclid.
But now a new question appears: If this Euclid Theater opened with the feature “Eyes of the Soul,” then it most likely if not definitely opened in in 1919. However, Loew’s Euclid (at 105th St. and St. Clair Ave. – later known as the Doan) is also said to have opened in 1919 – see separate entry for this theater). It’s hard to believe that there would have been two Euclid theaters operating at the same time.
Mike: Perhaps another of the movie ads that you have on your Picasa Gallery page of Cleveland theater ads could solve the problem. There is one there that Loew’s placed in the Plain Dealer essentially for the opening of the Loew’s State that has “1917” and “1921” as part of a banner across the top of the ad; the ad also includes a listing of all of the Loew’s theaters operating in Cleveland in 1921. But I cannot enlarge the image enough to read the addresses if they are included, although they appear to me that they are. If you can enlarge the ad or if you have the original, I would be curious to know what the address is for Loew’s Euclid. If would turn out that it is Ninth and Euclid, then the information for the Doan here on CT is wrong, and that this Euclid was, in fact, operated at some point by Loew’s and that the Doan was never Loew’s Euclid. This would make sense, because as I noted on the page for the Doan, calling that theater Loew’s Euclid does not make sense, given its location on St. Clair Ave.