Crescent Art Theatre
2862 Frankfort Avenue,
Louisville,
KY
40206
2862 Frankfort Avenue,
Louisville,
KY
40206
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While visiting Louisville in 1960, I drove past this one which was playing “Swan Lake”, featuring the Bolshoi Ballet.
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This is from Wikipedia:
Crescent Theater: Closed. Also called The Masonic. Art theatre in the 1960s, became a porn theatre before closing. Building eventually became the Brasserie Deitrich restaurant, which opened in 1988 and closed in May 2003. In 2004 the property was purchased by investors to be turned into condos.
Photos of this theater are HERE
A Louisville theater organ opus 517 was installed in the Crescent Theater in 1926.
The Crescent was ooperated by the Art Theatre Guild from the Mid-1960’s thru the mid-1980’s.
Thanks Chuck.
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