For our second blog post, we were instructed to make a 250 word post about something that we found fascinating that we had found within our research. Now there were definitely many things that I found really interesting is in my research, but there were definitely particular topics that had caught my eye.
Something relatively interesting that I found out doing my research on the Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay is the fact that even in the 1950s and the 1930s, the theater was used for events that were not centered around films. Two of the events that I was able to find within the newspaper articles while doing my research were actually those consisting of a blood drive going out to the soldiers that were serving in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 and a home fashion show that was being modeled by the Girl Scouts in the area. Now I already knew from being raised in the Coos Bay area that the Egyptian Theatre was often used as a concert venue, but I was not actively aware of the amount of public events that were occurring even as far back as the 1950s. I also found out that it was often used for a concert venue back in those days for artists such as the Moroni Jensen players.
However, I think that’s some of the most fascinating information that I have received during my research as the fact that it’s still retained its original Wurlitzer Theatre organ, making it one of the few theaters that still retains one to this day and also likely making it the last.