File:Opening night at Royal Theatre (St. Petersburg, FL).png

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English: The Royal Theatre preparing for Opening Night, Nov. 23, 1948.

Co-owners Bill Boardman and Horace Williams at left. The Royal Theatre staff on the right. Front row: Elois Coley, Alberta Hollins, Naomi Campbell. Back row: C. L. Lee, Landrus Clark, Napoleon Payne, James Sirmans. It was a 700-seat movie theater in a quonset hut building, serving the local African American community in "The Deuces" area of St. Petersburg, Florida.

(Photo from the St. Petersburg Museum of History)
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Cinema Treasures http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6892/photos/350609

Deuces Live https://deuceslive.org/history/
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Royal Theatre staff on opening night, November 23, 1948

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