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"Movie Dish Night" (May 23, 2021)

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During the Great Depression, theater owners had to get creative to keep cash-strapped families coming to the movies.  In this program from May 23, 1964; Shep tells a live audience at the Limelight Cafe how the owner of Hammond's Orpheum Theater filled his seats every Wednesday.

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