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4/25/2010 - Vonnie C.
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The arial view is a little off. The Mars Theater was just a bit south of the picture. It was just south of 7 Mile at Conant. I am in my 40''s and did not get the pleasure of going to the theater back in the day. However, I remember it standing in the 70''s.
It became a church (Lighthouse Cathedra, I believe) for a while. Then, it was torn down and a funeral home was built (owned an operated by the Solomon''s Temple Church, less than a mile from there). The funeral home existed briefly and closed. It was empty for a long time.
Then in 2007 or 2008, pastor of the Solomon''s Temple Church built his home there. Interesting history for such a a little space of land. Keep posting.
I enjoy this site.
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10/16/2007 - William Neil Love
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The photo is showing the wrong corner. What is being shown is the shopping center that used to house the Cunningham''s drug store, the SS Kresge''s store and the A&P Supermarket. The Mars was actually just south of the area depicted in the photo. You missed the mark by about 100 yards. I also believe it may have been open later that 1958.
I am sure of it. I used to go there each Saturday, in the fifties and see two features and a bunch of cartoons and a newsreel for about 15 cents This was the fare on Saturdays. It was a great venue for us who lived in Conant Gardens, and most of the kids I grew up with went there on Saturdays together.
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12/19/2003 - Box Office Magazine
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April 1959 - The sixth art film house has made its debut here, with Julius and Raymond Gugala converting the Mars in Hamtramck into the Mars International for the showing of all-color films. The opening feature was Alaska, the Great Land, a particularly timely subject as Detroiters followed with much interest the adventures of their onetime neighbors, the 59ers who went to Alaska for homesteading.
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