Aubry Theatre
4541 Hohman Avenue,
Hammond,
IN
46327
4541 Hohman Avenue,
Hammond,
IN
46327
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Built by Laveene and Koch, contractors, for Ed Aubry, this $5000 neighborhood theater was on the east side of Hohman Avenue near what was the South Shore (and is now the NICTD) train station. Construction started October 13, 1913, and the showplace opened on December 20, 1913. It claimed to have “the only motor driven [picture] machine in Hammond” and a “graduate pianist, schooled in ‘playing with the pictures.’”
Manager Tom Sigler planned to present good music and the best pictures. By April 1914 the Aubry Theatre was slated to re-open with new manager M.A. Dailey offering moving pictures exclusively at a five-cent price point.
The theater still showed in the 1915 Sanborn and was still in use in October 1917, but is long gone.
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The September 13, 1913 edition of The Lake County Times had a brief notice about the proposed Aubry theatre: “START WORK ON AUBRY THEATER
“Edward A. Aubrey, the city comptroller, is about to become an ‘angel’ of the drama. That the north side may have a Little Rialto of its own he has made arrangements to finance the construction of a pretensious playhouse on property he owns near the South Shore depot. Thereabout the bright lights have already gleamed but something has always been lacking. Aubry thinks that something is a vaudeville house. The foundation will be begun the first of next week and as soon as possible the suprestructure is to go up. The house is to seat 300. It will most likely be named ‘The Aubrey.’”
The Aubry Theatre was mentioned in the October 19, 1917 issue of the Lake County Times, but the item was about a political meeting held there, so I don’t know if it was still regularly operating as a movie house by that time: “Last night Aubrey theatre was packed when Mayor John D. Smalley, Treasurer Otto Duelke, Clerk William Kolb, Councilman at Large Candidate Albert Roo and Attorney Phil Greenwald spoke.”