Wayne Theatre
1014 S. Calhoun Street,
Fort Wayne,
IN
46802
1014 S. Calhoun Street,
Fort Wayne,
IN
46802
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Originally opened as the Lyric, this theater has long since vanished…
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The Wayne can be seen in this circa 1958 photograph. Notice the marquee: a double feature of the Bridgette Bardot film “The Night Heaven Fell” plus “Wayward Girl”.
Address: 1014 S. Calhoun
Here is a 1922 ad for the Lyric:
http://tinyurl.com/y36ovv
That link is long gone. The theaters in Fort Wayne on 11/5/22 were the Lyric, Jefferson, Orpheum, Strand, Palace, Hippodrome, Creighton, Transfer and Grand.
This is a photo of the Wayne Theater dated 1951.
A Bennett theater organ opus 811 size 2/14 was installed in the Lyric Theater in 1914. Note: Tubular Pneaumatic Action.
The Wayne theater at 1014 South Calhoun was opened in 1941 by Maller Theater Circuit.
It was first opened about 1908 as the Lyric, however Mallers bought
the theater, and promptly changed its name to the Riley.
They decided to again change its name, this time to the Wayne, which was very popular during it hey-day.
Should say posted by Billy Smith, Don lewis & Billy h.
From the early 1900s a postcard view of the Lyric Theatre before it became the Wayne.
The Lyric was built in 1908, according to a history of Fort Wayne published in 1917. Originally a vaudeville house, it had been converted to a movie theater by the time the book was written.