The former Bel Air Theatre building

ID: 194 ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: 2019
This file appears in: The Bel Air Theatre & Other Harford Movie Theatres
The former Bel Air Theatre building
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This image depicts the office building that housed the Bel Air Theater (now defunct) in 2019. The building is located at 5 North Main Street, Bel Air, Maryland.

This file appears in: The Bel Air Theatre & Other Harford Movie Theatres

By James Karmel
For the first half of the twentieth century, movie theaters around Harford County were segregated by race, as was common throughout the South. There were three main movie theatres in Harford County: in Bel Air, Aberdeen, and Havre de Grace. Each of…