Mapletown Theatre

The Google picture at the top shows the location of the old Maple Hts. Theater. The Mapletown was located across the street in the shopping center. Just move the cursor until you get to the other side of the street.

The opening ad lists 1800 luxurious seats.

Great looking pictures.looks like it became a dollar house.

The Mapletown was located in a strip shopping center on Broadway. The center set back from the street and had four rows of parking in front of the building and the parking rows were parallel to the building. The center had approximately 20 stores including a Pick n Pay grocery store, a Kresge five and ten cent store and a drug store. There was a large parking lot in the rear of the center and a long arcade provided access for theater goers. I believe there was a bowling alley of the rear of the arcade. The theater seated about 1600 which was similar in size to the Yorktown, Vogue, Fairview and Richmond theaters.

This is a 1974 ad. The address given in the ad is 15716 which is also the address for the Word Church.

I’m jealous someone else got the fountain… I pulled two seats out of there but I remember that fountain. Grats on a great grab. I miss the awful deco-ish seats in the women’s powder room (one of my earliest memories was my grandmother taking me into the women’s room to go potty).

To me it was really special, going to the Mapletown, even though they showed “B” double features, not being on Cleveland’s “A” circuit as was my neighborhood’s theater, the Stillwell a few miles down the road. The Mapletown had deeper, plusher seats, a glass enclosed concession stand in the foyer from which one could see the screen, and as I recall, a dimmer on the lights-whoa! I barely remember it before a remodeling, when the entire auditorium was covered with gold colored curtains. Am I wrong, somebody? And, yes, it was way bigger than 850 seats! I guess that was the number after they divided it up. ‘Never got in there after that.

The Mapletown Theatre opened on November 22, 1949 after the old Maple Heights Theatre closed across the street the day before.

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