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Theaters
Opened 1930 — closed 1955
A short, ordinary, complete record: The Maumee Theatre at 1121 Maumee Avenue opened in 1930 with 590 seats and was operated by Premiere Theatres. It was the east side's neighborhood house for a quarter-century — the walk-to theatre for the neighborhoods along the Maumee corridor — and it closed in 1955, early in the television-era shakeout that the bigger houses survived a while longer. The building was later demolished, and the site is a vacant lot. Its record is the plain one most neighborhood houses left: an opening, a seating count, an operator, a closing, preserved in the Cinema Treasures listing and copied into the county's place files.
Sources:
- ACGSI, Allen INGenWeb, M named places — the Maumee Theatre, 1121 Maumee Avenue, opened 1930, 590 seats, operated by Premiere Theatres, closed 1955, later demolished; information from Cinema Treasures, as the entry itself notes.