Movies at Midway
Melson Road,
Rehoboth Beach,
DE
19971
Melson Road,
Rehoboth Beach,
DE
19971
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The original Midway Palace Cinema started life as a single-screener in June 1965, twinned in 1971, and slowly grew into a five-screener within months in the late-1970s and early-1980s (and yes it did once operate as both a triplex and a quad beforehand). A sixth screen was added in the mid-1980s followed by a seventh screen a short time later.
There is also another twin-screen theater nearby called the Rehoboth Twin Cinemas, which opened after the Midway’s Drive-In’s end, and the twin-screen theater was very short-lived, closing in January 1987.
Screens 13 and 14 at the Movies at Midway will be torn down and rebuilt as “THE CUBE”, a Large Format Single Screen, beginning October, 2016. The new screen will open in summer of 2017.
Thank’s Howard for the photo. There are no scrolling LED marquees here. It looks like ABC Sign Co. were stuck with these and sold them cheap to Atlantic Theaters. Yuk!
PLEASE CHANGE ADDRESS TO:
COASTAL HIGHWAY & MELSON ROAD
Old address, 29 Midway Shopping Center, Highway One, on the Google Map, shows the southern United States and Central America, not very helpful. With the new address the theater is straight east of the red dot, it is the building with the white roof.
Open in 2003?
Anyone have more info or interior photos?
Here’s John Coursey’s recent photo of the Movies at Midway, which inspired its addition to this website & our quest to discover its history:
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