Flora Theater

Joe Vogel on March 21, 2022 at 6:32 pm

The “Indianapolis Items” column of Film Daily for December 17, 1935 said that “[t]he New Flora, Flora, Ind., will open on Christmas Day with ‘Millions In The Air.’” The name New Flora suggest that there was an earlier Flora Theatre in town, but I’ve not found any references to it. It might have been the same theater, just remodeled. The closest I can get to an address for the New Flora is the corner of E. Columbia Street and Division Street. The building has been demolished.

The 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory lists two movie houses at Flora, the Star Theatre, no location given, and the Tokio Theatre, which the Directory says was located on Main Street, but a local history page says was on Columbia Street. The local source appears to be correct.