68 Main Street
Also seen listed as 216 Broadway on Insurance maps
Midland , Maryland
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68 Main Street
Also seen listed as 216 Broadway on Insurance maps
Midland , Maryland
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| Midland, like
many of Maryand's smaller towns had an Opera
House , located on the second floor of 224-225
Broadway, complete with a stage. The Opera House was
located next to " Iron Bridge" over George's Creek,
according to a insurance map of the era. A check of
the FDA
( Film Daily Yearbook ) showed a Valley Theatre
listed
for the town in 1931, but by 1945, it was the
Midland Theatre at 68 Main Street , seating
between 250 and 300 people. The Midland was listed
through
the 1950's. We have also seen addresses listed as
216 Broadway, and a check
of that location found an empty lot, just about
where you see the mailboxs
in the picture above. Main Street , now known as
Back Street, may have also
housed a movie house, but the location is now a
vacant lot. |
