Mecca Theater
733 N. College Avenue,
Indianapolis,
IN
46202
733 N. College Avenue,
Indianapolis,
IN
46202
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The Mecca Theater opened on N. Noble Street (today N. College Avenue) in 1912 with seating for 550. The theater closed in 1952.
It has been demolished and the site is used for parking.
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Hi,
I tried to google map this address and nothing came up. Is it NOT in INDY, but a nearby town?
This is from Boxoffice in June 1949:
INDIANAPOLIS-Sam Perk has resigned from Ger-Bar Equipment Co. to enter the exhibition field with Oscar Apert. They purchased the Mecca Theatre, on North Noble Street, taking over June 1.
There are newspaper ads from 1913 that state the Mecca is at Noble Street and Massachusetts Avenue. If you look at the map, those streets are miles apart with no intersection. Seeing as this is almost a hundred years ago, though, there may have been a name change for one of the streets, or something similar to that.
Right now Google maps the above address to Indianapolis. What’s the problem?
I was trying to locate the intersection of Noble and Massachusetts, per the ad, but they don’t cross anywhere that I saw.
As you said, those two streets are nowhere near each other. The Film Daily gives the address as 733 North Noble. Unless there was a Noble Avenue that intersected Washington, the address should be Noble Street.
College Ave used to be Noble Street. So this theater would have been at Massachusetts and Noble. I’ve found a ‘motion picture house’ on an old city map on the east side of Noble (now college) between Walnut and St Clair.