Metropolitan Theater (Ascher's Metropolitan)

CTL-E-0857 · Address · site · ca. 1917-1930; demolished 1972

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Early Black-audience theater on the South Parkway corridor, demolished a year before the Regal.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:venue-metropolitan-theater; source research type(s): place.

Sources

Bo Lindstrom (2012); MAS Context

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