Vogue Theatre

This is a recent night photo.

I liked it.

Here is a sketch from June 2009:
http://tinyurl.com/nvgzl2

Here are two daytime photos from 1985:
http://tinyurl.com/l4vjhm
http://tinyurl.com/nfnkhg

Here is another 1985 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/nzoopw

Wow, Dr. Bop (& The Headliners) played there? They were a riot. Had their own bartender on stage with them. They’d bat pitchers of beer out over/on the audience with their guitars. Indoors at a theatre must have been a mess.
They performed on a rubber mat. Insured by Lloyds Of London I was told. They lived in Chicago for a while in the `80’s. Played many a street fair. They had rotating female back-up singers called the “Melendez Sisters.” A gal I went to grade school with turned up as one once. Her dad was a folk musician too as I recall. Thanks for the pics.

Here are some Vogue Theater related photos:

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Here is another photo of the Vogue Theater.

This is a 1946 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/pnewd

More history & current photo:
http://www.thevogue.ws/inside.html

Well, though I haven’t been to the Vogue in years (I moved from Indy in 1987), when I left it as a bar, it was better than it was when it was a theater. Growing up on the north side in the 60s and 70s, I saw many movies at the Vogue, the last being “Escape from the Planet of the Apes.” I remember it being run down even in the 60s and never had the grandeur of the Indiana, or the screen dynamics of the Eastwood.

It’s better off as a bar!

The Vogue is THE place to see how a nice theather was gutted out in favor of a crapy bar. What a shame!