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.