Pastime Theatre
467 State Street,
Hammond,
IN
46320
467 State Street,
Hammond,
IN
46320
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Located at 165 State Street. Henry Burge and Ray Fowler opened the Pastime Theatre on December 19, 1912. Initially a five-cent theatre, it was located in the Reiter building across the street from the popular Edward C. Minas Department Store in the busy east State Street shopping corridor. The Pastime Theatre, Orpheum Theatre and Bijou Theatre were located on the same block.
In June 1918, the Pastime Theatre Company acquired the nearby Bijou Theatre from local showman Charles Van Sickle.
The Pastime Theatre did not advertise after November 26, 1921, suggesting that the theatre closed soon thereafter.
In 1930 Hammond underwent a city-wide street renumbering. If the Pastime Theatre still existed, it would be at about 469 State Street today.
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After doing some further research, here’s a correction: The Oddfellows hall was at 177/179 State Street. That building still stands at 469 State Street today. The Pastime Theatre was 125-feet west of the Oddfellows, putting it across the street from the First Baptist Church’s portico at what Google maps shows as 467 State Street. The area is now a parking lot. To further confuse matters, the two buildings directly west of the Oddfellows are numbered out of sequence. Their address is 475 State Street.
The Pastime was one of four theaters listed at Hammond in the 1926 FDY, unfortunately none with either address or seating capacity. Deluxe, Pantheon, and Orpheum were the other houses. Only the latter three were still listed in the 1927 edition.