Can someone put a date on this photo? 191? Keystone 61?

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Darren Nemeth
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Can someone put a date on this photo? 191? Keystone 61?

Postby Darren Nemeth » Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:43 pm

Hello,

I have March 11 as the day but no year for this photo.

About 100 years ago someone put together a stereopticon slide presentation about the blight in Saginaw, MI. This is one of about 10-12 and shows the Bijou Theatre with a street advertizement out front.

To my eyes the street ad says "Keystone 61" or "Kentucky 61" on it.

Can anyone take a guess what this may actually say and what film it possibly is advertising?
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Re: Can someone put a date on this photo? 191?

Postby Darren Nemeth » Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:45 pm

I kept the two autos in the above photo. Perhaps they can point to a correct year.

The same picture uncropped. Everything but two of the buildings in the distance are gone.

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Re: Can someone put a date on this photo? 191? Keystone 61?

Postby Steve Rydzewski » Sun Aug 09, 2015 11:44 am

Looks like it reads KENTUCKY to me, Darren, not Keystone.

And date the photo? I'd make a guess of between 1910 and 1915.


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Re: Can someone put a date on this photo? 191? Keystone 61?

Postby Ian Elliot » Sun Aug 09, 2015 7:22 pm

It's 1911. Billboard, 3/25/11, mentions the Oscar F. Cook Stock Company appearing in "Kentucky '61" at the Saginaw Bijou the week of March 12.

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Re: Can someone put a date on this photo? 191? Keystone 61?

Postby Darren Nemeth » Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:27 am

Thanks!

The Bijou was an important venue in the area's vaudeville and motion picture history.

Thanks again for putting a date to this!! :)

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Re: Can someone put a date on this photo? 191? Keystone 61?

Postby Ian Elliot » Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:55 pm

Glad to be of help. Fascinating image.


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