Lido Theatre
122 S. Lebanon Street,
Lebanon,
IN
46052
122 S. Lebanon Street,
Lebanon,
IN
46052
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Previously operated by: Affiliated Theaters Inc. (Indianapolis)
Previous Names: Olympic Theatre
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The Olympic Theatre was opened by 1914. It had been renamed Lido Theatre by 1938 when it was operated by Affiliated Theaters Inc. out of Indianapolis. IN. It was still open in 1957.
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Ken Roe
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Proper address for the Lido is 124 S Lebanon. This theater was located in the Tyre Building, which was an extensive 1915 remodel of a pre-1887 building. Originally, it was a shallow (about half the depth of the lot) two-story building with a wide central retail space flanked by two narrower ones. On the 1909 map, the southern storefront is a ‘5 cent theatre’. Sometime after or concurrent with the remodel, the theater took over the central space, and a large auditorium was added. This is slightly lower than the original structure, and slopes down to be one story tall at the rear. The original name was the Olympic, and it became the Lido in the ‘30s.
The Olympic Theatre is listed at 122 S. Lebanon Street in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. The only other theater listed at Lebanon was the Grand Opera House, 216-220 W. Main Street.
I added the Grand. It was not labeled as showing movies. I usually skip opera houses, because I’m never sure on older maps what their activity included.
The Olympic Theatre at Lebanon was one of nine Indiana houses at which National Theatre Supply had recently installed a Walker Silver Sheet screen, according to The Film Daily of January 18, 1936. The name change to Lido Theatre Must have taken place after that date.