Avenue Theatre
10 N. Pennsylvania Avenue,
Delmar,
DE
19940
10 N. Pennsylvania Avenue,
Delmar,
DE
19940
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Additional Info
Functions: Office Space
Previous Names: Delmar Theatre, Elcora Theatre
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Built in 1901, the Delmar Theatre building still retains original light fixtures across top still in operation. Four eye-rings across front to hold up marquee/canopy.
Still known as the Delmar Theatre in the early-1940’s, by 1950, it had been renamed Avenue Theatre.
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Mike Richardson
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The May 30, 1936, issue of Boxoffice said that the old Elcora Theatre at Delmar had been reopened as the Delmar Theatre. The operator was Eastern Shores Theatres.
A line from Boxoffice, February 16, 1946: “Lee Insley came in to book for his Avenue in Delmar, Del. House was formerly called the Delmar.” Another item said that Lee Insley had reopened the Delmer Theatre in Delmer, though oddly that item was published in the subsequent issue of Boxoffice.
The December 10, 1955, issue of Boxoffice said “The Middleburg in Middleburg and the Avenue in Delmar, Del. have shuttered.” I haven’t found the Avenue mentioned in Boxoffice as an operating theater after that. It is mentioned retrospectively in a July 26, 1971, item about Paul Wise, who had become manager of the Delmer at the age of 15. He was 38 in 1971, so that was probably in 1948.
March 14th, 1946 grand opening ad as Delmar in the photo section.