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(More customer reviews)This is the MOST comprehensive book about Cincinnati Entertainment from 1900 to 1960. I have many Cincinnati books in my personal collection, but none is as complete, photographed, and well documented as this 3rd book in Mr. Singer's Cincinnati series. It is packed with great photos and very complete descriptions. Virtually EVERY theater is photographed and described. Photos are very clear. It even pictures several minor neighborhood theaters I attended as a child in the 1940's and 1950's !! I will refer to Mr. Singer's three Cincy volumes often. Very complete and interesting.
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Long before folks had a television set and radio in every room, they sought entertainment by stepping out for a night on the town. The choices around Cincinnati were nearly limitless: live theater at the Cox; spectacular musicals at the Shubert; hotels featuring fine dining and dance orchestras; talking pictures at everyone’s favorite movie palaceâ€"the Albee; burlesque and vaudeville shows at the Empress Theater on Vine Street; and gambling casinos were just a short drive across the river in Newport. All of the major entertainment venues in the Queen City during the first half of the 20th century are explored in Stepping out in Cincinnati. From saloons to ornate movie palaces and from the Cotton Club to the Capitol, you join those pleasure seekers, getting a real sense of what they saw: wonderful events and their countless imagesâ€"the things of which fond memories were made. Today, those memories have faded and virtually all of the once-glittering showplaces have been bulldozed into history. But within these pages, we get to experience first hand what it was like to be there. Unique among the many photographs featuring unforgettable movie houses and nightclub orchestras are never-before-published images of actual live vaudeville performances onstage at the Shubert, plus rare, clandestine pictures snapped inside the casinos in Newport. Also revealed are the locations of the better-known speakeasies during Prohibition; where the best halls to dance to live orchestras were; what the earliest movie houses were like; and what black Cincinnatians did for entertainment.
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