Mapletown Theatre
15716 Broadway Avenue,
Maple Heights,
OH
44137
15716 Broadway Avenue,
Maple Heights,
OH
44137
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The Mapletown Theatre opened on November 23, 1949, as a neighborhood theatre. It was triplexed in 1985, and the theatre remained open until 2000. It was vacant for a couple of years. A church occupies the building now.
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The Mapletown Theatre was designed by Cleveland architect George Ebeling, and was one of several theaters of his design listed in his obituary in the November 21, 1951, issue of Boxoffice.
The Mapletown was located in a strip shopping center on Broadway. The center set back from the street and had four rows of parking in front of the building and the parking rows were parallel to the building. The center had approximately 20 stores including a Pick n Pay grocery store, a Kresge five and ten cent store and a drug store. There was a large parking lot in the rear of the center and a long arcade provided access for theater goers. I believe there was a bowling alley of the rear of the arcade. The theater seated about 1600 which was similar in size to the Yorktown, Vogue, Fairview and Richmond theaters.
November 23rd, 1949 opening ad is at View link
Great looking pictures.looks like it became a dollar house.
Thats Art Deco alright!Very Nice.
The opening ad lists 1800 luxurious seats.
The Google picture at the top shows the location of the old Maple Hts. Theater. The Mapletown was located across the street in the shopping center. Just move the cursor until you get to the other side of the street.
November 23rd, 1949 grand opening ad uploaded here. it opened the same day as the Berea Theatre
I,along with my friend John T.(Trzcinski)during the “Golden Era” of the late ‘60’s…..“Bonnie & Clyde”, “In The Heat Of The Night”, “Sand Pebbles”,“Bullitt”,“Wait Until Dark” et. al……We had a MANNERS'BIG BOY 'katy-korner’(across the bridge/street) from the theater, and we learned how to ‘inhale’ those “Big Boys”,Onion Rings, and I believe they also had battered Mushrooms too…..A British couple;Eric (?),w/wife and kids changed the marquee from withing the ‘housing’ of the sign itself,and also provided custodian service……prior to working there in HS,I was a customer since my childhood in the ‘50’s (I remember walking to the theater from Morgan Street across from Broadway Elementary School(defunct)after seeing “Jailhouse Rock” and at another viewing,“Rebel Without A Cause”…Or,being dropped off there on a Friday dusk hours in the early '60’s with $2….stopped at the drug store on the corner/by the bridge and boughts 20 candy bars for a NICKLE each….$.50 for the show, and I had $.50 left for Royal Castle across Broadway after the show (hamburgers were 15cents, and I believe a root beer was a dime)…btw, that Friday 'double bill’ was Bob Hope in “Call Me Bwana” and “Dr.No” with Sean Connery……….
1955 photo added courtesy David Novak.