Pastime Theatre
419 N. 8th Street,
Richmond,
IN
47374
419 N. 8th Street,
Richmond,
IN
47374
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This theatre opened on July 18, 1923 with Ralph Lewis in “Vengeance of the Deep”. It appears on the muddled 1937-50 update to an earlier Sanborn. It was the second Pastime Theatre to operate in Richmond, IN. (The first Pastime Theatre on S. 6th Street has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
It was located in a very old two story brick commercial block constructed well before 1886 up by the railroad. The theatre was located in the second of five storefronts counting from the north. The façade is decorated by small lightbulbs mirroring the arched doorways below. A small ticket window is located in the center.
The theatre remains in operation on the 1955 map. The blurry 2007 street view shows it painted up as it must have looked, but it is today a gym.
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Seth Gaines
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There were two Pastime Theatres in Richmond. The Richmond Times on November 8, 1906, reported the opening of a Pastime Theatre as 12 South Sixth Street. “The house makes a specialty of moving pictures,” it said. The theater’s proprietors were Langer and Kulp. It was still open in 1907 but there are no references to it after that year.
A second Pastime Theatre opened July 18, 1923. it was “at North Eighth and E streets” in Richmond. “Vengeance of the Deep” was the first picture. Music was provided by Renk’s orchestra.