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Title
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Midland Theatre
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Description
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Construction view of theater and Midland Building.
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Date
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1927-05-05
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Aladdin Theatre
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s of the Aladdin Theatre building at 6044 E. Truman Road (at the corner of Truman and Belmont). It was designed by the Boller Brothers and opened in 1927. The theater closed in 1959, and housed a church at the time of the photograph.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Aladdin Theatre
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s of the Aladdin Theatre building at 6044 E. Truman Road (at the corner of Truman and Belmont). It was designed by the Boller Brothers and opened in 1927. The theater closed in 1959, and housed a church at the time of the photograph.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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3200 Independence Avenue
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s looking southeast, of the Benton Theater building that was at 3200 Independence Avenue, on the northeast corner of Independence Avenue and Benton Boulevard. It was built ca. 1911 and served as a church after the theater closed in 1952. It was demolished in 2015, after the roof collapsed in 2014. In the Scarritt Point neighborhood.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Price Building
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Description
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View looking northwest of the Price Building at the corner of 39th and Main streets in Midtown. Signs for Republic Bank, Foolkiller Folk Theater, and New Earth Bookstore can be seen. Cars parked and traveling along 39th Street are in view. A pedestrian is standing outside of the building.
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Date
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1985~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Lincoln Building
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Description
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View looking east along 18th Street at its intersection with Vine Street. The Lincoln Building and the Gem Theater are in view on the right hand side of the image. Several cars can be seen on the street.
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Date
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1985~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gem Theater
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Description
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View in the 18th and Vine District showing the front of the Gem Theater.
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Date
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1985~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Folly Theater
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Description
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View looking northwest of the Folly Theater at 12th and Central streets. Cars parked along Central Street can be seen. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is in view in the background.
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Date
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1990~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Empire - Main Street Theater
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Description
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View looking southwest of the Empire Theater, also known as the Main Street Theater, at 1400 Main Street. The theater's doors and windows were boarded up when this photograph was captured. Cars traveling and parked along Main Street can be seen. A sign for Allright Parking is in view.
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Date
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1995~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Plaza Theatre Building
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Description
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Elevated view looking west of the Plaza theatre building at 4704 Wyandotte Street in the Country Club Plaza.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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New Earth Books and Foolkiller Theater
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Description
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Photograph of the Price Candy Company building at 2 West 39th Street. circa 1981. The building was constructed in 1929 by W. R. Brovard to be a factory for Price Candy, and at the time of this photo was owned and partially occupied by the Foolkiller Theater company, which can be seen at the left. until they sold the building in 1985. The New Earth bookstore, a non-profit feminist store bookstore and event space, occupied the ground-floor corner space of the building.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Price Candy Company Building
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Description
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Photograph of terra cotta detail on the Price Candy Company building at 2 West 39th Street. circa 1981. The building was constructed in 1929 by W. R. Brovard to be a factory for Price Candy, and at the time of this photo was the home of the Foolkiller Theater collective until they sold the building in 1985.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Uptown Theater
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Description
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View looking southwest of the Uptown Theater at 3700 Broadway Boulevard. Sings advertising the 1945 film Captain Eddie can are in view. Cars parked along Broadway Boulevard and Valentine Road can be seen.
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Date
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1945~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Aladdin Theatre
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s of the Aladdin Theatre building at 6044 E. Truman Road (at the corner of Truman and Belmont). It was designed by the Boller Brothers and opened in 1927. The theater closed in 1959, and housed a church at the time of the photograph.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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3200 Independence Avenue
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s looking southeast, of the Benton Theater building that was at 3200 Independence Avenue, on the northeast corner of Independence Avenue and Benton Boulevard. It was built ca. 1911 and served as a church after the theater closed in 1952. It was demolished in 2015, after the roof collapsed in 2014. In the Scarritt Point neighborhood.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gem Theater
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Description
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Photograph of the Gem Theater at 1615 East 18th Street in the early 1990s. Built in 1912, the theater operated as a movie theater until 1960. It was refurbished into a performing arts theater, opening in 1997. The murals in the front windows were painted circa 1988 by artist Frederick Crawford.
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Date
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1990~/1999~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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4608 Saint John Avenue
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Description
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Photograph of The Gladstone Hall building at 4608 Saint John Avenue which originally housed The Gladstone Theater. Built in the early 1910s, it closed as a theatre in the early-1950s and at the time of the photo housed a Beauty School. The building was destroyed by a fire in 2011. Located in the Indian Mound neighborhood.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Folly Theater
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Description
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View looking north of the Folly Theater at 12th and Central streets during its restoration. A sign explaining the restoration project created by the Performing Arts Foundation can be seen on the front of the building.
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Date
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1975~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Guys and Dolls Production
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Description
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View of a production of Guys and Dolls at Starlight Theatre.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Guys and Dolls Production
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Description
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View of a production of Guys and Dolls at Starlight Theatre.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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