Midway Theatre

Joe Vogel on December 31, 2009 at 11:19 am

A January 8, 1938, Boxoffice item about the new Circle Theatre in Dearborn mentions the Midway on a list of other theaters designed by the same local architecture firm, Bennett & Straight.

Boxoffice doesn’t say if the Midway was designed by the firm as new construction or was a remodeling job. The theater was closed by 1955, when the April 16 issue of Boxoffice mentions “Nathan Barnett, who used to be the operator of the now dismantled Midway at Dearborn….”

CSWalczak on June 16, 2008 at 5:02 am

A picture of what used to be the front of this theatre can be seen here:

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