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Making the Evening News
On a rainy day in July, Laura Smith from FOX 11 News, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, called and said she would like to do a feature on the Opera House. I asked her when she would like to tour the building, and she said that if they left Green Bay right then that they would be in Menominee by 12:30. I agreed to meet her and got a hold of Bill Huntley to join us. She arrived with her camera man and interviewed us. Just by coincidence, I has also told an acoustic guitar duo, called "Fossil" (pictured here with Laura Smith), that they could film a music video inside the Opera House, and they showed up while the news crew was there. Laura also interviewed them, and the segement aired on T.V. Sunday night. Our webmaster Don Nelson said that the website had a lot of additional activity after the story aired.
See the Fox 11 News feature here.
Then & Now
The following was written by Jean Worth (December 8, 1945):
"OPENING - Mac Cammack is getting ready to open a movie house, the Menominee Theater, in what the public has long referred to as the Menominee Opera House. High school authorities usually refer to it as the Civic Auditorium. Once before the Opera House was called the Menominee Theater, but habit triumphed. Or maybe it's that the stained glass windows spelling 'Opera House' are more durable than the 'Menominee Theater' marquee signs. Cammack has covered the 'Opera House' windows".
In 2010, Harry Ellery discovered the stained glass "Opera House" window still intact. It has been covered for 66 years, and we are currently trying to get a grant from the State Historic Preservation Office to restore it.
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