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.312 Main Street
.Hancock, Maryland
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.Hancock, Maryland
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.312 Main Street
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.Hancock, Maryland |
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 .Hancock's New
Theatre, entrance was on the right .
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 The actual
theatre is located to the rear of the building.
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far, Kilduff's has located two old movie houses in
Hancock Maryland. The
theatre above is the movie house that was built int he
early 1920's from
what we can tell, and was known for years as the New
Theatre. The empty parking
lot next to the building was once the Hancock Fire
Department, who have since moved. The theatre closed
years ago and the building has been used for a variety
of purposes and appears to currently be vacant. |
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 .359 Main
Street ( 1910's movie house in Hancock. )
Before
the 1920's, movies were shown at 359 Main Street, in
the building address shown above. The building's
rear faces the Chesapeake and Ohio ( C & O )
Canal. The address back in the 1910's was listed as
359 Main Street, but the numbers may have been changed
over the years. I'm not sure under what name the
1910's Hancock town theatre went under, but I am
trying to find out. Hancock also had a Opera
House in the Masonic Temple, on the second floor
of the building. Part
of the first floor of that building was the Post
Office, that and building still stands to this day.
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 Old
post card of Hanock Maryland, with the Masonic Temple
seen on the right side of the street, just past the
tree and garage.
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 Hancock's
Masonic Temple
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References :
Film Daily Yearbook 1931 250 Seats Film Daily Yearbook 1935 197 Seats Film Daily Yearbook 1938 Not Listed Film Daily Yearbook 1941 240 Seats Film Daily Yearbook 1952 287 Seats |
