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Theaters and North Liberty

Section 46 of 111 in the North Liberty record · 4 entry pages

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Theaters — North Liberty

North Liberty, on the record assembled here, never had a theatre. No opera house, no picture palace, no single-screen cinema, no drive-in inside its limits appears in any source read — and its live theatre has always happened six miles northwest, in the auditorium of the consolidated high school its children attend. This section runs each test in the floor's order, prints the negatives at the size they earn, and then works the one stage that is genuinely this town's at full size.

Before the picture houses: the opera-house test

Tested · result printed whole

The opera-house test is run first because this section hangs on it, and its result is negative at full size. No opera house at North Liberty appears in the county histories of 1880 or 1907, in the Sanborn surveys of 1909, 1917…

The picture-house test: no cinema in the Sanborn town

1909–2026 · tested

The moving-picture class fails the same way, on the same evidence, one generation later. No movie theatre seated in North Liberty appears in the cinema directories and theatre databases searched (Cinema Treasures' Indiana…

The live stage after the palaces: the John Glenn Theatre Company

John Glenn High School Auditorium, 201 John Glenn Drive, Walkerton · boundary stated

Where live theatre actually happens for this town is documented to the ticket stub. The John Glenn Theatre Company, the high school's company, performs in the John Glenn High School Auditorium in Walkerton — the boundary printed…

The touring record, and the school stage inside North Liberty

North Liberty Elementary · the town's own room

The touring record separates from the buildings, as the floor requires, and prints thin: no professional road company, circuit lecturer or touring act at North Liberty was documented in sources read — the road played South Bend…

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Source: Theaters and North Liberty, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/theaters/