Mayland Theatre
5900 Mayfield Road,
Mayfield Heights,
OH
44124
5900 Mayfield Road,
Mayfield Heights,
OH
44124
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The Mayland Theatre, with a round Art-Deco style marquee, opened in 1948/1949, and was twinned under General Cinema ownership to the plans of William Riseman Associates.
GCC closed the Mayland in the early-1990’s, and a Barnes and Noble bookstore later occupied the site, with huge neon Barnes and Noble letters replacing the Mayland letters on the marquee. In 1999, Barnes and Noble relocated to Richmond Mall, and the Mayland building became vacant again.
In 2006, it became a Boneyard Restaurant.
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Toby Radloff
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Here is the restaurant website:
http://www.boneyardusa.com/locations.htm
1982 photo of the Maryland Theatre.
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1983 photo of the Mayland Theatre.
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The original architect of the Mayland Theatre is no longer unknown. The December 27, 1947, issue of Boxoffice Magazine announced that P.E. Essick and Howard Reif had a 1,600-seat theater under construction at Mayfield and Lander Roads. The as-yet unnamed theater was expected to open the following spring.
The Boxoffice item said: “Plans for the project were prepared by Paul Matzinger, Cleveland architect who has drawn plans for a majority of the Scoville, Essick & Reif Theatres.”
Other issues of Boxoffice indicate that, at the time the Mayland was designed, Matzinger was lead architect of the firm of Matzinger & Grosel. Matzinger was a member of Boxoffice Magazine’s Modern Theatre Planning Institute.
1976 photo of the Mayland Theatre.
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1982 Night photo of the Mayland Theatre.
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1983 night photo of the Mayland Theatre.
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Another 1983 photo of the Mayland Theatre.
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Undated photo of the Former Mayland Theatre. announcing the opening of the Boneyard in Spring of 2006.
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Renewing link.
Here is an article by Hanns Teichert, whose firm decorated the Mayland Theatre. The January 7, 1950, Boxoffice article includes photos of both the Mayland and a theater called the Lake, which was located in an eastern suburb of Cleveland not named in the magazine. Like the Mayland, the Lake was designed by the architectural firm of Matzinger & Grosel. I’ve been unable to determine of the Lake is listed at Cinema Treasures yet.
The Lake, now the Lakeshore 7, is in Euclid: View link
Thanks, CWalczak. I’ll post the Boxoffice link to the Lakeshore 7 page as well.
I never went to see a movie at this theater, but I did go to The Barnes & Noble it became a few times in HS (this is the late 90s).
Since it has been Boneyard for about 5 years now I have been inside it MANY times (it’s a great bar), but I do wish I went to a show back in the day…