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joanneps commented about Fox Performing Arts Center on Oct 9, 2008 at 10:03 pm

Mike, I’ll send you a separate email since I know you!! I’m so glad you are documenting the theatre. Count me in for one of your books!! As I know from my wedding photos, you are one great photographer!

joanneps
joanneps commented about Fox Performing Arts Center on Sep 9, 2008 at 8:41 pm

Monika, Corinne and William, this is interesting information! So since the Preview sign obviously wasn’t there originally (like the first photo above shows), when was it put in—and was it there by the showing of the GWTW preview?

Also, we still need info relative to the pipe organ and when it was taken out.

Thanks so much for all of your help.

joanneps
joanneps commented about Fox Performing Arts Center on Sep 9, 2008 at 7:28 am

Thanks, Corinne, we haven’t had much luck with the City yet, that’s why I was asking here. I know Mike Elderman (he did my wedding photos!), and I’ll ask him, but I doubt if he knows the history of the Preview sign and the organ. So I’d still appreciate any “memories” from other people!

joanneps
joanneps commented about Fox Performing Arts Center on Sep 9, 2008 at 12:24 am

I am doing some research on the Fox Theatre and have some questions for anyone who might have a long memory:

  1. When was the blue neon “Preview” sign put up?
  2. Was it there in 1939 when Gone With The Wind was previewed? (
  3. Was the original pipe organ still there when GWTW was previewed?
  4. When was the pipe organ taken out?

The Preview sign has been trashed as part of the city’s ongoing “restoration/rehabilitation.” WAS IT THERE IN 1939?

Thanks, anyone, for your help. What a great website!