Ingersoll Theatre

3711 Ingersoll Avenue,
Des Moines, IA 50312

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on February 5, 2010 at 4:26 pm

Here are some November 2009 articles about reuse of the Ingersoll:
http://tinyurl.com/y8m7tyo
http://tinyurl.com/ycb5327

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on June 15, 2009 at 10:09 pm

Here is another 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/lle7jw

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on April 6, 2009 at 10:38 pm

1983 photo of the Ingersoll Theatre.
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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on December 19, 2008 at 5:23 pm

Tri-State Theaters announced construction plans in January 1938. The theater opening was planned for July of that year.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on October 27, 2007 at 10:29 am

Here are some additional photos. The dinner theater closed in 2004, and although there has been interest in reuse, nothing has happened yet:
http://tinyurl.com/2vbjzo
http://tinyurl.com/2sy5pc

Calmuse
Calmuse on September 26, 2007 at 2:50 pm

It’s good you shared that photo, Lost Memory. I haven’t lived in Des Moines for a long time, but I read somewhere there’s talk of the entire block being demolished.

Toward the end of it’s run as a cinema, the Ingersoll was an art house—some first-run films, some revivals. I saw a Bergman film or two there—can’t recall which. Also “Elvira Madigan” and Joseph Losey’s 1975 biopic of Galileo, based on the Bertolt Brecht play.

lostmemory
lostmemory on July 9, 2007 at 7:52 pm

This is a photo of the former Ingersoll Theater.