Last winter, I featured this old storefront's sign on the Unusual Kentucky blog but didn't delve into the building itself.
It's located at 429 S. 3rd Street in downtown Louisville, next door to Kentucky Typewriter in the abandoned Morrissey Building. Act fast if you want to see it - I suspect it's earmarked for destruction just like most other cool old buildings, and there's been some recent activity inside. Let's keep our fingers crossed that someone's actually about to rehabilitate this amazing structure.
When you look through the window, you can see the remains of what must have been spectacular old painted murals on the walls. And check out those marble-swirl columns.
I was starting to ask you, Jeffrey, whatever happened to this place, and there's the article!
ReplyDeleteAbout 5 years ago, when the Falls City Theatre Company still had interesting items in the window and on the shelves, yet permanently closed, I tracked down the owner and talked to him by phone. He was working elsewhere, and had to close the store for lack of enough business to keep it open. I asked if it were possible to buy anything I saw in the window, which he agreed, but then lost contact.
There was an interesting 35mm film reel in the window, projectors and other interesting items inside.
Aw, man.... you mean the guy was actually accessible just five years ago? Damn. We gotta find him.
ReplyDeleteI can remember when I was in high school in the late 1970s, this was the place to go for props for the "Senior Play." We also rented items for our homecoming pageantry. I remember going in the place and explaining to the proprietor what we needed. We walked here and there amongst lots and lots of stuff until the requested item was found. Projector lights, popcorn machine, or an old Bell and Howell movie screen. It was a fascinating place completely full of most anything you needed. I've never been back in there since that time.
ReplyDeleteThis building was owned by a good friend of my ex father in law. He sold the building a few years ago. I'm not sure who the new owners are. According to my Ex father in law, the second floor has a stage and the the third floor has at least one Apt that looks to have been untouched since the 30's or 40's
ReplyDeleteI was just walking past this building today and wondered about it. I took a pic and googled it and came across your blog.
ReplyDeleteI was by there last week... inspired to come down and look after viewing the old, abandoned Parking Garage Building from my room at the Marriott.
ReplyDeleteThe signs are, still, exactly the same. Three empty store fronts just decaying-away inside.
Sadly this sight has been torn down to make way for another corporate complex high rise.
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