Cleveland's Playhouse Square
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Regular price $24.99 Sale price $17.49 Save 30%Cleveland's Playhouse Square documents the fascinating history of the five theatres which boomed, beginning in the 1920s.
In the early 1920s, five opulent theaters--the Allen, the Ohio, the State, the Palace, and the Hanna--opened on a stretch of Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. They offered legitimate theater, vaudeville, name bands and entertainers, and films for the affluent and hardworking citizens of this booming industrial city. Unfortunately, the introduction of television and the flight to the suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s turned the theaters into ghost palaces destined for the wrecking ball. In 1970, a bold group of planners led by Raymond K. Shepardson formed the Playhouse Square Association, a nonprofit group dedicated to saving the theaters. A 25-year restoration endeavor emerged that raised $53 million, culminating in the largest theater restoration project in the world. Today Playhouse Square Center ranks second only to New York's Lincoln Center as North America's largest performing arts complex.

Milwaukee's Live Theater
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Detroit
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A Theatre History of Marion, Ohio: John Eberson's Palace & Beyond
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The Birth of the Detroit Sound
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The Chicago Music Scene
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Regular price $24.99 Sale price $17.49 Save 30%This is the story of Chicago's vibrant music scene in the 1960s and 1970s.
The 1960s and 1970s was a time when jazz, rock and roll, country and western, folk, blues, and R & B flowed through the streets of Chicagoland. Much has been written about the national and international talent of that time, but not enough has been written regarding local music scenes. This story focuses on the city of Chicago (along with its suburban club scene) and the homegrown performers who made the 1960s and 1970s one of the most electrifying and memorable periods in music history. Some of those players went all the way to the big time, while others made their mark and disappeared. But they all made a difference in their own way, and for those who were there, it is a time they will never forget.

Entertainment in Early Milwaukee
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Chicago Blues
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Milwaukee Movie Theaters
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Columbus
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Fifty Years of Meadow Brook Theatre
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Detroit's Downtown Movie Palaces
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The Cincinnati Sound
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Regular price $24.99 Sale price $17.49 Save 30%Betty Clooney, and Doris Day appeared regularly on WLW Radio, which also broadcast Boone County Jamboree. Then came the network television show
Midwestern Hayride and stardom for Kenny Price. Meanwhile, King and Fraternity Records released hundreds of hits for James Brown, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Cowboy Copas, Lonnie Mack, and the Casinos. In the late 1960s, the Lemon Pipers sang "Green Tambourine," and rock bands ruled Coney Island's Moonlite Gardens. It was a wild, incredible ride while it lasted, and it left such an indelible impression that today Cincinnati is remembered as one of America's top music capitals.

Kearney's World Theatre
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