Talbott Theater, 1926
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The Talbott Theater first opened as a silent movie theatre in the mid-1920s. In the late 1960s, the Black Curtain Dinner Theater, Indianapolis’ first professional dinner theatre, opened at this location. It operated as Talbott Street Disco, a gay bar, from 1980 to 1986, and reopened in 2002. Talbott Street announced its plans to close permanently in June 2016.
Image courtesy of W.H. Bass Photo Company Collection, Indiana Historical Society.
This file appears in: Carving Out a Community Space: Herron-Morton Neighborhood
Carving Out a Community Space: Herron-Morton Neighborhood
HistoryBetween the mid-1970s and late 1980s, the Herron-Morton Neighborhood located between Talbott Street and 22nd Street, was a center of the LGBT+ community in Indianapolis. The Herron-Morton neighborhood takes its name from the John Herron…