Comments about Apollo Theatre in Baltimore, MD

durango48 on September 24, 2011 at 6:14 pm

Marloplaywrite, I went to the Apollo once, to see “Death Rides A Horse” with Lee Van Cleef. The theater was in its last days.

marloplaywrite on June 28, 2010 at 12:12 am

My Name is Marlo of Marlo Playwrite Production, I am the producer and Director of The Baltimore Apollo. I hold my shows at Frederick Douglass High school. I consider myself truely blessed because the shows are really nice and Baltimore is off the hook with talent. The shows have grown so much and the word is spreading all over, now I’m starting to get talent from other states as well. My dream is to some day have my own Apollo Theatre and Name it, “The Baltimore Apollo”. I never new about this building on Harford rd But I’m very interested in knowing who the owner of this building is and would like to speak with him about purchasing this building and renovating it so Baltimore can have it’s own Apollo Theatre. This is my dream, If any of you have any info about the owner of this building please contact me at 410-970-1025. Thanks and may God continue to bless us all!

lostmemory on June 15, 2009 at 11:19 am

1987 Photo

randytheicon on May 31, 2009 at 1:26 pm

In its last days the Apollo’s projection system was notoriously out-of-kilter! On “flat” films the top of the picture was cut off – you could see it reflected on the ceiling – while for “scope” films the ends were missing.

EcRocker on May 11, 2009 at 1:08 pm

LOL Lost I was driving by in a tour bus not a car. I just have this uncanny nack of finding places like this. I think the google street views are less then 2 years old.

lostmemory on May 11, 2009 at 8:31 am

Looks like this building isn’t being used for anything in that photo but then we don’t know how old that photo is. If this building is in a bad neighborhood, maybe you can do a drive by photo without getting out of the car. :)

EcRocker on May 11, 2009 at 12:32 am

Here is a google Map link. It also has Street View
View link

EcRocker on May 11, 2009 at 12:30 am

Right now I can’t tell you. Like I said I just happened to be driving by and stopped for a light. I only realized it was a theatre when I saw APOLLO just below the roof edge. It is not in the best of neighborhoods by far. If I happen to happen opon it again and have a few minutes I may look in to it.

It’s so nice to get my PC back on line. Something happened to my wireless connection. It showed I had signal and I was on line but the PC didn’t see it. Deleted the wireless card drivers and reloaded it and I was back but for 2 weeks I was in a panic. I was on a slow lap top and getting e-mail was a pain in the butt

TTyl Lost

lostmemory on May 10, 2009 at 4:53 pm

Is it being used for anything?

EcRocker on May 10, 2009 at 2:22 pm

I was just up in Baltimore last weekend and had I not ben stopped at a traffic light I might have never even seen the Baltimore Apollo.

lostmemory on February 7, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Here is a photo of the Apollo Theater. Year given for photo is 1979.

lostmemory on October 8, 2005 at 7:35 am

A Moller organ Opus 3038 Size 2/10 was installed in the Apollo Theater in 1920 at a cost of $6000.00.

lostmemory on October 7, 2005 at 4:55 pm

This website has photos and a brief history of the Apollo Theater.

Apollo Theatre

1500 Harford Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21202

1500 Harford Avenue,
Baltimore, MD 21202