The Silver Screen Cinema is on Randolph Street (State Road 327) in the small town of Garrett, Indiana. It was built in 1939 as the Gala, and was later renamed the Silver Screen. It closed in 2014 because the owners couldn't afford to convert it to digital projection.

Small, locally-owned theaters like the Silver Screen held on longer in small towns than they did in the larger cities, where giant multiplex theaters drove the little ones out of business years ago.

The company that owns the Silver Screen also owns the Strand Theatre in Kendallville and the Auburn-Garrett Drive-In, both of which were still open when I made this photograph in March, 2016.

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