|
212-214 S. Michigan Street
<br />Page 2
<br />In February of 1977, a newspaper article mentioned the probable closing of the
<br />theater because the downtown mall had not revived interest in the area and the
<br />theater was losing money.
<br />August, 1978, the front of the theater, "The Pride of South Bend" was boarded
<br />over and a "For Sale" sign was posted.
<br />Source of information:
<br />Blackstone - State Theater Building
<br />212 - 218 South Michigan
<br />Plat Book: Book 1, pages 1, 2
<br />Deed Book: Book 314, pages 76, 77
<br />Book 354, pages 258 to 261
<br />Book 383, page 409
<br />Book 650, page 58
<br />Mortgage Records Book 156, pages 122 to 127
<br />Book 211, page 260
<br />Book 354, page 132
<br />Assessment Records: 1932 to present
<br />Miscellaneous Records: Book Q, pages 8, 9, 10; Book Q pages 72 and 88;
<br />Book Q, pages 99 to 111; Book Q, pages 208 and 209;
<br />Book Q, page 117; Book R, page 190; Book R, page 224;
<br />Book R, page 304; Book R, page 530; Book R, page 564;
<br />Book S, page 42; Book V, pages 118 to 122; Book Y, page 299;
<br />Book 29, pages 462, 474, 632; Book 30, page 37;
<br />Book 44, pages 535, 536; Book 45, pages 88, 89; Book 75, 8 to 16
<br />Court Orders: Civil Order Book 33 - Cause No. 56861, St. Joseph Superior Court No. 1
<br />Page 292 to 295
<br />Civil Order Book 14 - Cause 33355, St. Joseph Superior Court No. 2
<br />Page 15
<br />Books: Gabriel Rush Summers
<br />Howard, History of St. Joseph County - pages 778, 779
<br />Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph
<br />Counties - page 690
<br />Anderson, and Colley, South Bend and the Men Who Made It
<br />pages 152, 153, 395
<br />Esarey, Logan, History of Indiana Pages 152, 154
<br />Frank and Johanna Toepp
<br />Howard, History of St. Joseph County - pages 771, 778
<br />Anderson, and Colley, South Bend and the Men Who Made It - page 206
<br />Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph
<br />Counties - page 353
<br />Marquee Scrap Book - History and Travel Dept. - South Bend Public Library
<br />Vol. 5 - page 3 1973 - Theater operated by Ezra Rhodes
<br />Newspapers: News Times: 17 Dec. 1918; 27 Jan. 1921 - page 8; 28 Jan. 1921 - page 16
<br />30 Jan. 1921
<br />South Bend Tribune: 21 June 1919; 1 July 1919; 11 Aug. 1919; 4 Sept. 1919;
<br />22 Sept. 1919 - page 5; 28 Jan. 1921; 29 Jan. 1921;
<br />3 Dec. 1941; 28 Dec. 1942; 25 Oct. 1927; 21 Nov. 1933;
<br />4 March 1944; 29 June 1959
<br />Clipping File: History and Travel Dept. - South Bend Public Library - Blackstone -
<br />State Theater
<br />Scrapbook: Northern.Indiana Historical Museum: Book D, page 48
<br />WPA Marriage Records: 28 Oct. 1880 - G. R. Summers, Mercy Longley
<br />7 Aug. 1900 - F. C. Toepp, Johanna Kamm
|