In Photos: Remembering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters

The Ideal, pictured here in 1938, was a neighbourhood theater, with a 15-by-20ft screen. It was a 21-day house, meaning movies arrived 21 days after opening downtown

Photograph: Courtesy of the Robert K Headley Theatre Collection

Children entering a movie theater in 1950

Photograph: Maryland Historical Society/Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society. Photo by Paul Henderson