Uptown Theater
4208 N. College Avenue,
Indianapolis,
IN
46208
4208 N. College Avenue,
Indianapolis,
IN
46208
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May 29, 1926 grand opening ad in photo section.
I sat through about 6 hours of the original Batman serials in approx 1969-70. Me and my friend were the only two people in the theater when we were asked to leave so the projectionist could go home.
In my youth I spent many a Saturday afternoon at the Uptown Theater in the 1950’s. Two hours of cartoon, and a feature for a quarter. The theater had penny candy, 5 cent Cokes, ten cent popcorn with real butter and a prize drawing between the cartoons and the feature.
Life didn’t get much better than this.
I’m sorry to know that the Uptown lost its “life” to a parking lot! I lived near there in the early 1970s. At that time, it became a venue for underground and foreign films there. I saw, among other films, Andy Warhol’s “Trash” and “Heat” (worried the whole time that we were going to get busted, since they were rated X). Anyway, I saw probably half a dozen interesting flicks I wouldn’t see elsewhere in Indy before I moved away. Rest in peace, Uptown.
This is a 1929 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/mpqek
Here is an early view of the Uptown:
http://tinyurl.com/l7oda