Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
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Mrs. Culp Revisited, Jan. 27, 1937

Mrs. Culp Revisited, Jan. 27, 1937

They go to the movies

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Mrs. Culp Revisited, Jan. 27, 1937
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It was a rainy day in Tampa. Mrs. Culp had wanted to take her guests to Clearwater, but instead they saw the movie Men Are Not Gods starring Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence and Rex Harrison at the Tampa Theatre. Built in 1926 at the height of the craze for "movie palaces," the Tampa Theatre almost fell to the wrecking ball in the 1970s but was saved b…

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