Identifier	psq-050.jpg
Title	Keith Building in 1945
Subject	Keith Building (Cleveland, Ohio) Playhouse Square Center Loew's State Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio) State Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio) RKOState Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio) Euclid Avenue (Cleveland, Ohio) East 117th Street (Cleveland, Ohio) Electric signs
Description	View of the east side of the Keith Building in 1945. The sign on top of the building at one time claimed to be the largest electrical sign in the country, it reads, "RKO VAUDEVILLE." The marquees of the State Theatre and Palace Theatre are visible farther down Euclid Avenue. RKO ran the Palace from 1932 to 1956, and Vaudeville ended in October of 1945. You can see the Loew's State marquee in the bottom left of the photo.
Creator	Parade Studios
Location Depicted	Downtown (Cleveland, Ohio)
Time Period	Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original	1945
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Size of Original	8.5 x 10 in.
Digital Collection	PlayhouseSquare Archives
Donor	Young, Bruce
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	jpeg
Repository	PlayhouseSquare
Repository Collection	PlayhouseSquare Archives
Repository Homepage	http://www.playhousesquare.com/
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=PS3
Further Reading	Cleveland's Playhouse Square by Patricia M. Mote: http://www.worldcat.org/title/clevelands-playhouse-square/oclc/68707437&referer=brief_results; Playhouse Square, Cleveland : an entertaining history : 1810 to the 21st century by Kathleen Kennedy and Jean Emser Schultz: http://www.worldcat.org/title/playhouse-square-cleveland-an-entertaining-history-1810-to-the-21st-century/oclc/45895235&referer=brief_results; From Broadway to Cleveland by John Vacha: http://www.worldcat.org/title/from-broadway-to-cleveland-a-history-of-the-hanna-theatre/oclc/76416556&referer=brief_results

Keith Building in 1945

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