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Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-18.5)(1850s) (336 pages)
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NEVADA CITY THEATERS
Recollections by George F. Jacobs, Manager, Nevada Theater.
from Nevada Co. Morning Miner, Jan. 26, 1904
"In Nevada City there have been four theaters burned and one
was washed away by a freshet and not one life was lost. I arrived
here in August 1851, The following spring the Jenny Lind theater
which stood on the west bank of Deer Creek at the Plaza, was swept off
by the ‘igh water. It went floating down the stream almost in tact
with the American flag floating proudly over it. When it got to abeut
where the Gault Bridge now stand: it collapsed and the wreckage went on
towards the valley. In 1856 Dramatic Hall, at the corner of Broad and
Pine Sts. and in the same locality the Morning Miner Office is, burned
and in the same year the Frisbie theater on Coyote Street near its
junction with Main, met with a similar fire. The latter was rebuilt
and two vears later again went un in smoke. The Frisbie theater was
cuite pretentious and well-ecuinped play-houses although built of wood.
In 1863 the Guild theater on Main Street, opposite where the Hotel
Antlers now is, was burned.".