Lyric Theater
411 W. Main Street,
Crisfield,
MD
21817
411 W. Main Street,
Crisfield,
MD
21817
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The Lyric Theatre was built between 1904 and 1911. It was a wooden building and was destroyed by fire in 1928.
A new Lyric Theatre was built and opened at the same address. That theatre was still in operation in 1950 (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures)
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Billy Holcomb / Don Lewis / Billy Smith
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The 1940 Lyric may have been a replacement for an earlier Lyric Theater that burned in 1928; there is a 1905 picture of that Lyric Theater on Main St. in Crisfield here: http://tinyurl.com/2gxfppo
From the early 1900s a postcard view of Main Street along with the Lyric Theater in Crisfield.
This listing is a confusing mess. The correct address was 411-413 W Main. The later Lyric was a completely different building at the same address. The old wooden building was destroyed in the same 1928 fire that burned the Opera House at the other end of the block. The current building may have been a replacement Lyric, but should have its own listing, since all the photos are of the older building, which was constructed sometime between 1904 and 1911.
The Lyric was already gone by 1956. At the time, it was already converted into the Crisfield Revival Center.
That would be the new Lyric, which at least still exists (as a building). I’ve added a 1923 map view of the Lyric illustrated. This listing will need to be rewritten, and I will add a new Lyric listing. The capacity of the old Lyric was 350 as of 1927.
I also don’t think the new Lyric opened in 1940. It’s hard to tell, since the architecture of the replacement is very dull, and neither the 1931 or 1940’s Sanborns can be found online, but I don’t find it listed before 1951. Some of the late ‘40s Yearbooks are useless garbage that only have circuit information, so it may have opened any time after 1945. Previously, a Lyric is listed in the '30s, but never with a capacity.
Here is a good article about the fire, full of interesting detail: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-crisfield-fire-of-1928-m/83007419/