What’s that building? Vacant senior social club started as a movie palace

The marquee outside a senior social club on Broadway in Gary asserted it was safe and sound.

That turned out not to be the case in 2014 after a 23-year-old man burst into the senior community center and shot four senior citizens in an attempted robbery before being shot himself.

The Safe and Sound Senior Social Club, 2200 Broadway, has been closed since then. It's been boarded up and covered with graffiti. Only the skeleton of the marquee remains.

The club had run into trouble with the Indiana Excise Police, who had raised it for gambling and serving alcohol without a permit. Started in 2008, the nonprofit club was set up like a tavern with a bar, refrigerator, tables, craps table, cards, dice and a jukebox, according to police.

It was also once the headquarters of the Sin City Deciple