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Graff Mercantile
4 North Main Street
Hurricane, Utah
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Cinemark Draper
Draper, Utah
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Photographer: Grant Smith
Date: 24 June 2005
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Graff Mercantile
4 North Main Street
Hurricane, Utah
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1914
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Charles Petty, a local store manager, brought movies to Huricanne in 1914 using a gas-powered projector. The generator "created a loud 'putt, putt' sound heard all over
Hurricane; residents flocked to the theater in response."1
1. "Silent Films Intrigued and Occasionally Offended Utahns", by W. Paul Reeve, History Blazer, August 1995
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