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www.HistoryInYourOwnBackyard.com info@HistoryInYourOwnBackyard.com 812-623-5727 The story of the Damm Theatre begins with its name sake, Louis Damm. Louis was only fifteen years old when he came to America in 1868. After settling in Cincinnati to live with relatives, he worked in a bakery earning $1 per week. Eventually Louis saved enough money to purchase his own bakery, and he soon after married Kathryn Vetter. For nine years Louis and his wife ran their bakery business in Cincinnati until they moved to Osgood in 1902 to open a new bakery. Business in Osgood was good, yet Louis was enterprising. In 1914, he built a modern movie house next door to his bakery, which opened in October with the silent feature film Big Jim of the Sierras. Like many theaters in the early days of film, the Damm Theatre also hosted vaudeville and local amateur acts along with its major motion pictures. Remarkably, the Damm Theatre’s versatility allowed it to compete with other movie houses in larger cities. In 1922 Osgood’s first movie theater, the Columbia Theatre , owned by local retired businessmen Richard Beer and Gottlieb Herman, was sold to Louis Damm. Soon after, Louis moved his theater into the new location across the street, and renamed the Columbia Theatre the Damm Theatre. As the sole movie house in Osgood, Louis decided to expand the number of days for showing films from one (Tuesdays) to five (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday). In addition to providing Ripley County with its largest auditorium, the new Damm Theatre location also included a large dance hall on the second floor. The approximately 400-seat theater could hold one-third of the town’s population. When popular movies played there, it regularly did. The “new” Damm Theatre’s exterior architectural style is considered Nineteenth-Century Functional. As part of a city block, rather than a stand-alone structure, the theater’s exterior, though simple, reflects the original architectural look of the block and blends in harmoniously with the neighboring businesses. Its interior design is not one specific style, but is similar to other movie theaters of the past. The theater still maintains many original elements, such as its molded tin ceilings, cast-iron seats with original red velvet upholstery, wall sconces, and a maple hardwood dance floor upstairs. Moreover, individual pieces have also survived, including rare projection equipment, film memorabilia, and other historic items. At one time a piano-console Wurlitzer player organ was installed in the front of the theater to be used for silent films; however, the organ was repossessed during the Depression by the local Wurlitzer agent in Rising Sun, Indiana. The area has since been filled in with cement. The second floor dance hall also once housed a Wurlitzer orchestration that provided dance music. The Damm Theatre operated for thirty-nine years as a family operation, run by the five children of Louis Damm, until 1953, when Joe Damm purchased controlling interest in the business from his family. Business thrived into the 1960s, as the theater was open six days per week, and sometimes showed as many as three different films in a single week. When Joe Damm died in 1973, his wife Viola continued to operate the theater with the help of her son, Robert. However, times had changed by the 1960s. Decreased railway traffic meant fewer visitors to Osgood. Additionally, the advent of television caused declining theater attendances nationwide. Both factors severely limited business for the Damm Theatre, to the point of cutting back its hours of operation from six days to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday by the mid-1980s. Nevertheless, Viola devoted herself to running a family-friendly theater that was clean and affordable. With Viola’s death in 1989, however, the Damm Theatre was forced to cease continuous operation for the first time since it opened in 1922, thus shutting down the only cinema in town. GPS Location: 39°07'46.9"N 85°17'29.7"W Other Ripley County, Indiana videos: Bilby Tower:    • Bilby  Tower,  Osgood,  Indiana   Bridges of Osgood, Indiana:    • The  Historic  Bridges  of  Osgood,  India...   History of Osgood, Indiana:    • The  Story  Behind  the  Naming  of  Osgoo...   King Steam Car:    • The  King  Steam  Car  Osgood,  Indiana   Osgood Carnegie Public Library:    • Osgood,  Indiana,  Carnegie  Public  Library   Osgood Historical Museum:    • Osgood  Historical  Museum   Osgood Quarries:    • The  Osgood  Quarries,  Osgood,  Indiana   Ripley County Fairgrounds:    • The  Ripley  County  Fair,  Osgood,  Indiana   Willson Dairy Farm, Osgood, Indiana:    • Willson  Dairy  Farm,  Osgood,  Indiana   St. Nicholas Catholic Church:    • St   Nicholas  Catholic  Church   Fernando G. Taylor House:    • How  the  Historic  Fernando  G.  Taylor  ...   Tyson School:    • Tyson  School,  Versailles,  Indiana   St. Louis Catholic Church, Batesville, Indiana:    • St   Louis  Catholic  Church, Batesville, ...