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Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0724-00106
Title: Metropolitan Theatre, Grand Forks (N.D.)
Date: 8/27/1908
Inscription/Marks: [front-print] Metropolitan Theatre, Grand Forks, N.D. [back-written] Hello F. Phoned Mr. D. last night. Declined but they had our anyway. Do you known if the pattern of that [illegible] pillow of Kate's like the one I stained and [illegible]or the other one or has she taken them to [illegible]. If she has would you mind dropping her a card & ask her to send it to me. The one with five flowers on. [addressed to] Mrs. Florence Phair, Crystal, N.D.
Summary: A large stone theater building. There is a balcony on the third story directly above the main entrance. A few people are on the balcony and a few more are scattered on the sidewalk. A horse and wagon stands to the left of the entrance. In 1889 the Grand Forks Opera House Company was formed and this theater was erected the following year. In 1907 the theater began showing movies, and in the 1940s the building became a bowling alley.
Red ID: PH_I_90684 Image ID: 49755 Image Notes: B0724-00106

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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Collection Summary
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0724-00106
Title: Metropolitan Theatre, Grand Forks (N.D.)
Date: 8/27/1908
Inscription/Marks: [front-print] Metropolitan Theatre, Grand Forks, N.D. [back-written] Hello F. Phoned Mr. D. last night. Declined but they had our anyway. Do you known if the pattern of that [illegible] pillow of Kate's like the one I stained and [illegible]or the other one or has she taken them to [illegible]. If she has would you mind dropping her a card & ask her to send it to me. The one with five flowers on. [addressed to] Mrs. Florence Phair, Crystal, N.D.
Summary: A large stone theater building. There is a balcony on the third story directly above the main entrance. A few people are on the balcony and a few more are scattered on the sidewalk. A horse and wagon stands to the left of the entrance. In 1889 the Grand Forks Opera House Company was formed and this theater was erected the following year. In 1907 the theater began showing movies, and in the 1940s the building became a bowling alley.
Red ID: PH_I_90684 Image ID: 49756 Image Notes: B0724-00106-back

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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