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The Quimby Village Theater on Bluffton Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana sits abandoned. The sign has been removed from the marque, and the parking lot pavement is cracked and full of potholes.

 

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Quimby Village Theater

This is the cinema at the Quimby Village Shopping Center on Bluffton Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana. My parents took my sister and I to movies here all the time, as it was the closest theater to our house.

The Quimby Village theater has been closed for a long time, but was used as a church for a while. It now sits empty. The shopping center has a bowling alley on the opposite end of the center, where my family went bowling often when I was a kid. Village Bowl closed its doors in the summer of 2011.

Since posting this photograph, several people have written to me with information about the history of the theater. It was originally named the Clyde by the owner of Quimby Village, Helen Quimby. She named the theater for her late husband, Clyde Quimby.

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Update: In 2017, the old theatre was purchased by Chuck Surack, founder of Sweetwater Music, and a nine million dollar renovation began. The outside was restored to nearly the same configuration as it had back in 1951; the theatre got back its original name and the original "Clyde" sign was rebuilt. The inside was transformed into a live music venue.

 

 

 

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