Victory Theatre
600 Main Street,
Evansville,
IN
47708
600 Main Street,
Evansville,
IN
47708
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What a Theatre!Thanks again Chuck 1231.
By the way thanks Lost Memory lots of great shots also!!!!
Thanks again Chuck1231.I do even have my own pictures of the Theatres that I used to work in. Keep them coming.I have not been on C.T. too long but it is how I spend a lot of my spare time.Great site.
Thanks tlsloews. Like Lost Memory who is one of the best research members on CT it takes a lot of time and research on the internet, but in the end it is worth it. It is always great to share with other members your findings.
Another great old picture Chuck1231, how do you come up with them?
Link to another early photo of the Loew’s Victory.
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Carlton Theatre, opened 1937, closed 1959, 216 Main St., Denolished
Does anyone remember a Carlton Theater on Main Street in Evansville? It was there in the mid-fifties. Don’t see any of the theaters listed in Evansville on Cinema Treasures refer to that name.
tlsloews, I never got to see it as the Loew’s Victory but have seen it since it was renovated. They did a fantastic job on the theatre.
Thanks for the info Chuck1231, the next time I go to Evansville I will check it out. I have been there several times but did not know about this theatre. Good to see that it is still in operation.
Loew’s took over operation of the Victory in 1928 and operated it until 1971. The header should have an AKA Loew’s Victory, that was its name for most of the theatres life.
Here is a photo from 1998.
That’s a foot all right. Not mine, though.
Now the link that I posted works. If you click the right arrow button above the photo, there are two more interior photos. If you click the left arrow, you will see a photo of someones foot. Tiny URL might be having temporary problems.
OK. It was a nice photo anyway.
It doesn’t work. It takes me to the Tiny URL website with the same error message.
http://tinyurl.com/5h6oa4
It works for me. That’s odd. Try this one:
http://tinyurl.com/5h6oa4
Error: Unable to find site’s URL to redirect to.
Here is an interior photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6r5ox4
Foundations were put in place, but the theater, to be called the Ambassador or the Cadick was never built. Details here:
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The April 2nd, 1930 issue of weekly Variety reported that a new theatre costing $1.5 million would be built in Evansville, Indiana, on the SW corner of 3rd and Sycamore Streets, with Bowling & Shank as architects. Did this ever happen? The project might have been aborted by the Depression.
A Moller theater organ opus 3109 size 2/11 was installed in the Victory Theater in 1921.
Here are some then and now photos:
http://tinyurl.com/g9rxv
This is a photo of the Victory theater in Evansville.
This website has interior photos and history of the Victory Theater.