If you’re anything like me, you find tunnels irresistible. There’s something about hidden spaces -places I’m not really supposed to see- that flips a switch in my brain. Stumbling across Ball State University’s tunnels on a seventy-six-year-old Sanborn fire insurance map last night felt like rediscovering a secret! In a way, they hide in plain sight. 

I’ve been to Terre Haute maybe five times in my life, most recently to take photos of a Long Line tower and snarf down a wet plate at Taco Casita. Still, I recently got a chance to do some virtual globetrotting there when my friend Brett reached out with a question about a mysterious old school. Here’s what we discovered.

It’s almost unthinkable today when cities the size of Anderson, Elkhart, and Marion no longer have a movie theater to call their own, but once upon a time, even the smallest towns could boast a cinema. Albany, Indiana, was one of them. For a time, it had its own little window into Hollywood.