State Theater

530 S. Main Street,
Elkhart, IN 46516

Unfavorite 2 people favorited this theater

Showing 2 comments

jkonrath
jkonrath on March 18, 2019 at 12:03 am

It’s now called the Five Star Dive Bar. Still has the front facade, not sure what the interior’s like these days, but they do have bands play sometimes.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on March 13, 2009 at 2:33 am

The June 9, 1951, issue of Boxoffice said that N.N. Bernstein, operator of the State, had closed the theater on May 26, with no plans to reopen. Bernstein closed three additional houses the same weekend, in Hammond, Indiana, and in Waukegan and Harvey, Illinois. He cited losses due to competition from television and drive-in theaters.

The item also noted that the State had been built in 1940, and had opened in August of that year.