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.Belair Avenue
Aberdeen,
Maryland
( Harford County )
( Harford County )
Razed
Others
names include - Aaco Theatre & Squire
Theatre
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The New Theatre was on the
corner of Belair Avenue just west of Rt. 40,
next to Oddfellow's Hall. The old theatre was
first known as the Aaco Theatre, opening in
1919, but that name was later changed, sometime
in the 1940's. The theater was the only movie
house for Aberdeen , and closed in the mid
1970's, after a fire at the building next door
at Oddfellows Hall, caused extensive
damage. In 1926, movies were shown on the first
floor, while a printing shop occupied the second
floor of the building. Back then, the address
the theatre went by was 311 Belair Avenue. f you
weren't in the mood for a movie, the bowling
alley in town was to the rear of the building,
about half a block away. Where Pulaski Highway
(Rt 40) runs today (once known as Front Street )
, there was a lumber yard (W.W. Johnson) which
was later shared in years with a coal yard....
The building no longer still stands, after being renovated into a bank, and then torn down in 2004 for the bank parking lot, and then in later years a new bank was built on the lot. n the 1970's, the New changed it's name again, to the Squire Theatre. There was a Drive In Theater in later years, located at Beard's Hill and Churchville Roads. .......
Above - Two looks from
different angles at Belair Avenue in Aberdeen and
the New Theatre. One more can be found below.
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