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Wells Bijou

Wells Bijou

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Wells Bijou

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a.k.a. Strand Theater

SE 3rd St, formerly 409-411 Upper 3rd St
Evansville, IN

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Location

3rd St between locust and walnut
District: Downtown
Latitude: 37.969953
Longitude: -87.570724
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History


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built on site of apollo theater wells bijou high end theater se 3rd between locust and walnut (wright building is now situated) opened oct 15 1906 later strand c1911 popular priced movie house strand theatre standard amusement co destroyed by fire dec 2 1926 http://tshughes.com/film/movie_houses/downtown/strand/strand.htm now where bob wright motors is on 3rd st


See also

HistoricEvansville.com: Other
HistoricEvansville.com: Downtown district

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