Mercury Theatre
6901 Pearl Road,
Middleburg Heights,
OH
44130
6901 Pearl Road,
Middleburg Heights,
OH
44130
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This theatre opened on May 18, 1950, 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 Theatre also had an Art-Morderne style Mercury figure on the marquee. In 1994 or so, the theatre was demolished. An Office Max is on the site now.
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Back in the 60’s I believe Mercury held possibly it’s one and only rock concert which I attended.I swear it was the James Gang and King Crimson.Does anyone remember this or any concert?
I remember hearing about a concert held in the theatre but I did not attend. I heard it was very crowded and unrully and the theatre got damaged—torn seats etc… so they never had another concert there again.
Here is a fresh link to the August 5, 1950, Boxoffice article about the Mercury Theatre. It continues on the subsequent page (click their “next page” link.)
May 18th, 1950 ad is at View link
May 18th, 1950 ad is at View link
Here are some nice pics from 1977, ‘82 & '83 http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1,35,3,1830&catpagesize=25
Direct links to the AC photos. here
here
here
here
and here
For an old aerial view of the theatre go to
http://www.middleburgheights.com/history.php
Scroll down the page to the slide show
View slide show pics 04, 15, 16
In the photos in the link above, along with slides 4, 15 and 16, check out slide 14. It shows the Pearl Road Drive-in theater.
The heading needs to be corrected: the address was 6901 Pearl Road; and as a twin it had 1400 seats, 700 each auditorium.
I remember when the Merc re-opened after twinning that the Cinema II side had seats installed only in the back third because they ran out of time. In fact they were still mopping the dust off the floor when the picture started, a Geo. C. Scott picture I forget the title. They finished the seat install during the night.