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Seminole Theatre

The 1940 Story

..The spring of '40, they led away *Big Shorty*..

writer/SOUTH DADE NEWS LEADER\retired..page8

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*...I traded my hammer and broom...

 

I helped Frank Klick with the bathroom tile ahead of the final white putty coat of plaster. Frank and I went from hanging acoustical tiles in the ceiling to installing the large tapestries hangings on the side walls, With all the white walls completed in came all of the special order theatre seats. Every phase was undergoing it's final finishing touches. During the final week of construction, most everyone involved worked late in the evening. As I recall, the last few days of trim work were filled with an atmosphere of virtual electric excitement, like when an ocean liner is about to be launched! Beaming Arthur Smith was proudly setting up his shinny new barber chairs and equipment. The soda shop was being polished to perfection. As one entered this new Theatre, climbed the stairs, glided their feet across the super soft carpet up to the plush mezzanine, with it's gleaming white walls and oval ceiling, there's was a definite feeling you had entered a mansion! A movie mansion! Personally speaking, this time entering my old work area, I had neither hammer nor broom, I traded them both off for a pretty date on my arm! You see, we were to view the new motion picture New Moon in the new Seminole Theatre, Starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald on opening night!..END*


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