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Capitol Theater
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View across State Street towards the Capitol Theater, designed in a Spanish colonial style and highly decorative, including arched windows above the marquee. The marquee advertises that the theater is showing The Exorcist.
1973
Garner, Bruce
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W01467I
WHi 137640
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