Mayland Theatre
5900 Mayfield Road,
Mayfield Heights,
OH
44124
5900 Mayfield Road,
Mayfield Heights,
OH
44124
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There are many who believe this theatre is haunted! Apparently, workers at the Boneyard have regular encounters with a ghost, who was supposedly an usher, for the theatre. They say he hung himself when he was turned down for a raise. Supposedly, he hung himself in front of the big screen! I stumbled across this page while trying to gather information to disprove this story. I am not a believer in ghosts! Just wondering if anyone out there, has any info on this. Thanks!
Here is a fresh link to the January 7, 1950, Boxoffice article about the Mayfield and Lake Theatres. There are three pages with photos. In adition, here is a direct link to the final page of the article’s text.
Very nice theater. Any interior pictures?
We moved to Mayfield Hts. in 1957. I spent many a Saturday afternoon as a kid and nights as a teen watching the movies at the Mayland. When I got older and bolder as a teen, I use to find ways to sneak into the theater without buying a ticket. It was a nice modern theater at the time but nothing like the great historical theaters in downtown Cleveland which I never really went to until the 1980’s and later. When in town though I like to eat at the Boneyard and try to remember what it was like back in the 60’s. I guess there are no interior photos since the place was usually dark and who would take pictures of an ordinary theater interior anyway.
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…
Thanks, CWalczak. I’ll post the Boxoffice link to the Lakeshore 7 page as well.
The Lake, now the Lakeshore 7, is in Euclid: View 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.
Renewing link.
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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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.
1983 photo of the Mayland Theatre.
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1982 photo of the Maryland Theatre.
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Here is the restaurant website:
http://www.boneyardusa.com/locations.htm
If memory serves, the Mayland was, for a brief time in the late 1960s, a roadshow house. I seem to recall seeing “A Man for All Seasons” there on a reserved seat basis.
I am not from your area. Never been to Ohio, in fact.
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The function should be changed to restaurant.
The Boneyard has an outdoor dining area under the marquee in the front, and the main entrance is now on the west side of the building near the back. This was probably done because there is plentiful parking in that area. The front parking was kind of limited.
Boneyard photos on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/45yk7c
“Quite a cast of characters came and went under my employ, I won’t mention names but you know who you are. Projectionists who bar-b-q’d outside on the rooftop, cashiers and concession clerks who showed up when they wanted to and ushers who kept count of the beers they confiscated made the place interesting.”
I’m the staghand who painted that freekin dome in the lobby. Remember how much fun that was? I hope the years have been kind to you- you were always good to me
Kevin (‘79-'82)
What is in the former Mayland Theatre site now? And does anyone know if June 9th is the date of the annual Mayfield Heights car cruise-in? Sure would be nice to see this theatre and marquee operating for that event as it would certainly add to a nostalgic car weekend.
Scare: The old safe in the office came from the East Side Drive-In when it closed. It had been purchased for the drive-in after someone broke in during the night and jackhammered a floor safe out of the concrete and took it. At the Mayland it was in use until the new one, in the office closet, was purchased in about 1983 as i recall. There were also 2 wall safes in the north wall of the office that couldn’t be locked. I took the doors off them and covered them over when I put up the paneling on the walls in 1974.
I saw many movies at the Mayland Theater including the original Shaggy Dog and Parent Trap, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, It’s a Mad (X4) World, and the original Superman with Christopher Reeves. As we were walking out of the theater after Superman, the wind blew the “M” from the title off of the marquee and it landed in front of my brother. Sure wish my dad wouldn’t have thrown that out years later. After Barnes and Noble bookstore opened there, we stopped with my own kids almost every Sunday after church. It was hard for them to understand how there used to be just one giant screen there with only one movie option, as opposed to the 10 or more they’re used to now. Great memories.