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- Description: Postcard of the Red Barn Theatre located in Saugatuck, Michigan featuring the iconic large red barn and staircase entrances. The back of the postcard is blank but features a caption in the upper left hand corner: "Red Barn Theater. Saugatuck
- Subject: Summer theater
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- Description: A black and white photo of the theater group, the Oxbows, from Wayne State University. There are ten individuals depicted, all in various costumes. One holds a baby.
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- Description: A print of the Saugatuck Dancing Pavilion. Text reads "Largest Dance Pavilion in Michigan" in the top right corner. Along the bottom, text reads "12,000 Square Feet Floor Space Exclusive of Movie Theater which Seats 750."
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- Text: staying downtown at a motel and then I - I said I was going to see Jim Webster. I don’t know if you remember him. 2:53 TR: No. 2:54 DN: He was the head of the Red Barn Theater. 2:56 TR: Ah! Yes, 2:57 DN: And he lived on 2:57 TR: I heard the name
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- Text: the Pavilion, what it was like going there. 15:58 JE: Oh it was awesome to, to, to not only see that building, but to, uh, there was a movie theater to the left of it. 16:12 JO: Mm kay. How did you get in the building? Tell us that. 16:14 JE: Well 16:15 JO: How
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- Text: big draw to the area which I’m sad to see go is Red Barn theater. Did anyone talk about Red Barn Theater? 40:48 EG: A fair amount. Yeah. Yeah, but tell us, tell us some of your experiences there. 40:49 JA: Yeah. That was, that was special. Yeah
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- Text: and the pavilion in the movie theater. Did you go there often or maybe just once or twice? LP: No, it used to be every week whenever they'd change. If it was a decent movie, we went over there to see it. MS: Oh, nice. LP: And we used to go to the wrestling
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- Text: of the 40's or the hits of today for your dancing pleasure. If you enjoy the theater, an evening at the Red Barn is a must. · as 11 you fall in love w ith the villages. which is a good possibility, and you find. you want to spend more than one day
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- Text: , but that was much later I was in my teens, I was was in maybe 17, 18 years old when they, when the Red Barn was erected, or was bought I don’t know, I, or rented, I don’t know whether it, how it started and, uh, became a theater, and uh, I tried out for a part and I
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- Text: was in a foreign country a little kid, to see a building that big. NN: yeah. CVO: But no, at my mother, of course, and her brother and her friends always used it for a dance hall, and just um, previous to it burning down it had become a movie theater or a while
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- Text: that could come out was that every Saturday we could go to Fennville. Fennville had a little movie theater. 17:01 EG: mm hm 17:02 HS: And we could go over there, and you could get that, what five minute news reel? 17:06 EG: mm hm 17:06 HS: Or something