Is there anyone researching these Halls? Jane Foley NC ----- Original Message ----- From: "LoVella Moore" <Moore60@charter.net> To: <mobarry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] question >I not only remember going to movies in the old building on the south side >of the square. I also remember being at the very first movie in the new >Hall Theatre on the west side of the square and seeing Glen on the stage >asking the audience how we liked the new theatre. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Loretta Vinson > To: mobarry@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:42 PM > Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] question > > > The Ozark Theater was on the South side of the square until the end of > World > War II. At that time was when Glen and Clairece Hall purchased the > community build and remodeled it for the Hall Theatre. They also had > living > quarters on the second floor of this building. They were still living > there > when I moved from there in 1955. > > It stated in this article that it operated during World War I into the > late > 1920's as the GEM Theatre. > > I remember as a child going to the movie on the south side of the square. > So this is beginning to tell my age. > > My very first job was working in the 'Barry Hotel" for one week to fill > in > for a lady in the cafe that was in the hotel. About 1952. I don't know > just when this closed. > Loretta > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna Cooper" <saarisr@sbcglobal.net> > To: <mobarry@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:08 AM > Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] question > > > Great! So, from that we can say that it was the south building on the > west > side of the square, the one that was on the corner. I wondered if it > wasn't > there, because that is the old hotel building. But I can't imagine that > there was enough room there for an opera house, too. > > It is interesting that Glen Hall's movie place was on the same block - > but > on the north end of the square. > > Thanks so much. > > Donna > > -------Original Message------- > > From: mobarry@rootsweb.com > Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:57:20 AM > To: mobarry@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] question > > Donna in Emory Melton's book " The First 150 Years" at the bottom of page > 250 it mentions: > Moving picture came to town about1912 and were quartered in the north > floor > room of the Barry Hotel building on the west side of the square. Silent > pictures shown in that location for several years. In 1914, Thomas J. > Preddy rode into town on a horse from his native Oklahoma and shortly > thereafter, purchased the movie house at the above location. Later he was > joined by his brother, Jess and sister, Ardella Tucker. Through > successive > hands, it passed down to the Ozark Theater which was on the south side of > the square in 1928 and "talkies" were first available. And it goes on to > tell the rest of the story of the Hall's > Loretta > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna Cooper" <saarisr@sbcglobal.net> > To: <mobarry@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:15 AM > Subject: [MOBARRY] question > > > List Readers: I found this news clip and so I was wondering where the > opera > house was in 1918. I believe it was in Cassville because this was in the > Local and Personal items, but I can't imagine which building it was in. > > ----------------- > > June 13, 1918, Cassville Republican > > Tom Preddy has a new machine and everything up in good condition for his > moving picture shows at the Opera House. He will appreciate your > patronage. > > Resource: State Historical Society of MO > > ------------- > > > Donna Cooper > > > Please tell us about your Barry County ancestors. The list-admin is Donna > Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Please tell us about your Barry County ancestors. The list-admin is Donna > Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > . > Please tell us about your Barry County ancestors. The list-admin is Donna > Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Please tell us about your Barry County ancestors. The list-admin is Donna > Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Please tell us about your Barry County ancestors. The list-admin is Donna > Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >