Black Curtain Dinner Theater

rivest266 on October 29, 2015 at 10:07 pm

August 14th, 1962 grand opening ad as Encore in photo section.

Silicon Sam on November 13, 2010 at 7:04 pm

From their own website:

The Talbott Street Theatre opened as a movie house in 1920. However, the building and four blocks of Talbott Street would become far better known in other ways during the decades to come. During the mid-1950’s the art festival that would become one of the city’s oldest, the Talbott Street Art Fair, was established. It began modestly in an alley as a way for students at the nearby John Herron School of Art to sell their creations During the 1960’s, the Talbott area became associated with peace activists and bohemians, as well as artists.

By then, the movie house had become the Black Curtain Dinner Theatre. Along with the adjacent Hummingbird Café, the dinner theatre was popular through much of the 1970’s. Today the Talbott Street building is an alternative entertainment venue that opened in the former theatre at 2145 N. Talbott Street in 2002. However, the area has been known as a welcoming one for the gay community since the early 1980’s. The current nightclub, which has a Studio 54 style of dance floor, replaced the other gay clubs at the same site.

spectrum on November 13, 2010 at 5:21 pm

From, the Google Street View, the building is still there, the exterior looks nicely renovated and it is being used for something but I can’t tell what. From the decor, it may be offices.

kencmcintyre on August 16, 2009 at 7:43 am

Here is a circa 1926 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ojgqug