Uptown Theater
4208 N. College Avenue,
Indianapolis,
IN
46208
4208 N. College Avenue,
Indianapolis,
IN
46208
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Architects: Edgar Otis Hunter, Preston C. Rubush
Firms: Rubush & Hunter
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The Uptown Theater was opened May 29, 1926, designed by the firm of Rubush & Hunter (who also designed the Indiana Theater and Circle Theater in Indianapolis). It was a neighborhood movie house that held Saturday children’s matinees during the 1960’s. The Uptown Theater closed in the 1970’s and was demolished to make way for a parking lot.
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Here is an early view of the Uptown:
http://tinyurl.com/l7oda
This is a 1929 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/mpqek
I’m sorry to know that the Uptown lost its “life” to a parking lot! I lived near there in the early 1970s. At that time, it became a venue for underground and foreign films there. I saw, among other films, Andy Warhol’s “Trash” and “Heat” (worried the whole time that we were going to get busted, since they were rated X). Anyway, I saw probably half a dozen interesting flicks I wouldn’t see elsewhere in Indy before I moved away. Rest in peace, Uptown.
In my youth I spent many a Saturday afternoon at the Uptown Theater in the 1950’s. Two hours of cartoon, and a feature for a quarter. The theater had penny candy, 5 cent Cokes, ten cent popcorn with real butter and a prize drawing between the cartoons and the feature.
Life didn’t get much better than this.
I sat through about 6 hours of the original Batman serials in approx 1969-70. Me and my friend were the only two people in the theater when we were asked to leave so the projectionist could go home.
May 29, 1926 grand opening ad in photo section.