Tolleston Theatre
2300 W. 11th Avenue,
Gary,
IN
46404
2300 W. 11th Avenue,
Gary,
IN
46404
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The Tolleston Theatre opened by 1919. It seated 550 and was no longer listed in 1954. The site is a vacant lot.
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The Tolleston Theatre was one of several Gary houses operated by the Nick Bikos Theatre Company. Other houses in the local chain included the Roosevelt, Indiana, and Fifth Avenue Theatres.
The correct spelling of the theater’s name is Tolleston, which is the district of Gary in which it was located.
I grew up in Tolleston and lived near the Tolleston Theatre. The address listed is incorrect. The theatre was in the 2300 block of West 11th Avenue.
!n January 1927 architect M.S. Bittner of East Chicago was designing a 55-foot by 125-foot $55,000 theater in Tolleston for A. Rudzinski.
The October 6, 1951 issue of Boxoffice had an item saying “[t]he former Tolleston Theatre building at 2323 West 11th Street will be completely remodeled inside and out at a cost of $32,000. The front will be rebuilt and changes made in the interior.” It’s odd that the item says nothing about whether the building would be used as a theater again.
A house called the Tolleston Theatre was in operation prior to 1919, when its reopening was noted in the January 10 issue of Moving Picture World. The Tolleston was mentioned again in the March 3, 1923 issue of the same publication.