Elaborate Displays

ID: 401 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Whayne H. Farmer
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Elaborate Displays

Early films often came with elaborate promotional materials. This display for D. W. Griffith’s 1923 film White Rose encouraged Wacoans to stop inside and purchase a ticket to see “the story of a girl who could not stop loving.”

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By Amanda Sawyer
For over a century, the Hippodrome Theatre has stood as a downtown home for ever-changing forms of entertainment.The venue emerged in the early twentieth century through advocates for a downtown theater banding together. A group of local…