![]() Capacity issues and neighborhood noise complaints led to the club closing in 1994 and re-opened under new management at another location. It was a well-known spot frequented by popular blues artists and hailed as the 'real-deal' for blues clubs. In the late 1980s it was converted into a nightclub called The Cherokee Blues Club. Building later converted to retail space. Performing at The Bunbury Theatre, the company renovated the space in 2007. ![]() Owned by John Henry Whallen.Ħ04 South Third Street/ The Henry Clay Building Lyons Brown Theatre.īuckingham also known (at times) as the Savoy and Grand Opera Houseġ820–1897 (operated as the Savoy until ca. Currently operating as a concert/live performance venue in conjunction with The Kentucky Center. In 2018, converted to current entrepreneurial/coworking space, Launch Louisville. Building converted to retail/showroom space for an office furniture company in 1981. Converted to rock music venue The Mad Hatter in 1969. Renamed Guild Theatre in 1960, featuring independent play companies. Later featured radio performances by a then unknown Gene Autry. Originally legitimate theatre, vaudeville, burlesque, and cinema. The building was converted again into retail space. Broadway Cinemas failed due to slow ticket sales and trouble with its creditors. It was an effort to bring a theater back to the predominantly black West End, after the last of 6 area theaters, Cinema West, closed in 1975. Razed Also called The Olio and The VictoryĬonverted from a Winn-Dixie building into 10-screen complex. Theatre originally called The Lincoln when first opened. Eight screens.īuilding still stands, after a brief period as a youth center, part of back auditorium was razed and interior gutted, theatre converted to a restaurant/sports bar. (After closing as a movie theater, the former Bard was converted to a nightclub called Armando's Palace, and then later, after significant remodeling, became a health club that operated on two stories, and included a small pool and indoor track.)īaxter Avenue Theatre also (later) the AirwayĪpex Theatres. ![]() Remodeled into restaurant and later store space. Remodeled into what is now Sporting Goods Store and phone store Remodeled into what is now Feeder’s Supply and RentACenter Also called the Ohio (different from the later one on 4th St.) Due to renumbering and consolidation over the years, the address given may not exactly correspond to the modern building or lot at that location. "Years active" refers to years the building was actively used as a theatre. A great deal of the older theatres have been razed, or their buildings converted to other purposes.
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