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| View Original: | The Capitol Theatre, also known as the Capitol Music Hall, in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia LCCN2015632044.tif.tiff (4694x4322) | |||
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| Keywords: The Capitol Theatre, also known as the Capitol Music Hall, in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia LCCN2015632044.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; It is the largest theater in West Virginia For many years it has served as the home of Jamboree USA a live country music show broadcast on WWVA from 1926 until 1977 when was the second-longest running radio show in the United States second only to the Grand Ole Opry The Capitol was designed by architect Charles W Bates of Wheeling and opened on Thanksgiving day 1928 The theatre which included a ballroom initially presented movies and stage shows and later concerts by the Wheeling Symphony Society which moved into the building in 1929 In 1969 WWVA moved its studio to the Capitol building where it produced and broadcast its Jamboree music shows In 2006 Clear Channel which had purchased 1170 AM and the Capitol building cut the program due in part to declining popularity and later closed the theatre after the building failed an annual safety inspection in the spring of 2007 In 2009 the Wheeling Convention and Visitors Bureau announced that it would purchase the then-Capitol Music Hall ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015632044 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/31900/31969a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 31969 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 31969 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||