Evansville Civic Theatre
717 N. Fulton Avenue,
Evansville,
IN
47710
717 N. Fulton Avenue,
Evansville,
IN
47710
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The website link above has been hijacked and goes to a video gambling site. Here’s the updated link Evansville Civic Theatre
The March 16, 1970 issue of Boxoffice said that the Columbia Theatre, last of Evansville’s old neighborhood houses, had been bought by Theatre A Corp., and was being remodeled and would reopen near the end of March as the 650-seat Cinema West. Theatre A planned to follow a family-friendly policy at the house, offering children’s matinees and occasional live performances. Evansville’s penultimate neighborhood house, the Franklin Theatre, had recently been turned into an adult movie theater.
Many additional photos of the Columbia Theatre can be found on this page at Historic Evansville.
This web page from the Willard Library has photos of the Columbia Theatre before and after the 1939 Streamline Modern remodeling job, as well as photos of many other Evansville theaters. The thumbnails are in alphabetical order, so the Columbia photos are near the top of the page.
OK, so that didn’t work: go to photobucket.com and search COLUMBIA and THEATRE – that should bring up several pix of the Columbia (now Civic). I’ll be adding more pix soon from other eras when the theatre looked somewhat different.
A picture of the Columbia: <img src=“http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb52/moviejs/SilverScreen9105001.jpg” alt=“Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket”>