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What It Was: The Lorain Theater in Ohio City
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The new home of Visible Voice Books in Ohio City used to be a theater dating back to the 1920s.
Visible Voice Books recently moved from its longtime home on Professor Avenue in Tremont to a renovated space at 4601 Lorain Ave. in Ohio City. When we learned the building used to house a theater beginning in the 1920s, we had to know more.
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What It Was: The Lorain Theater in Ohio City
Clip: Season 28 | 1m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Visible Voice Books recently moved from its longtime home on Professor Avenue in Tremont to a renovated space at 4601 Lorain Ave. in Ohio City. When we learned the building used to house a theater beginning in the 1920s, we had to know more.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThis building behind me, what it was was Visible Voice Books.
And now ... ... they're here in what used to be the Lorain Theater.
This opened in the 20s and eventually started showing all those great Universal horror flicks in the ’30s and 40s.
At one point it had a Wurlitzer organ, which overheated in 1927, leading to $2,500 in damage.
By 1970, it was the Denmark Theater and showed what we're going to call art films.
Today you can still see the screening area preserved by Visible Voice.
But don't confuse this with the Lorain-Fulton Theater right up the street.
That one also opened in the 20s and they had lettering on the front that was sort of Art Dee-co, which is American for Art Deco.
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