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What It Was: The Lorain Theater in Ohio City

Season 28 | 1m 07s

Visible Voice Books recently moved from its longtime home on Professor Avenue in Tremont to a renovated space at 4601 Lorain Ave. in Ohio City. When we learned the building used to house a theater beginning in the 1920s, we had to know more.

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Meet a Cleveland woman preserving the diaries of everyday Americans.
Northeast Ohio artists bring together birding, dance and jazz in Akron.
A stirring look at what is lost and found at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Sterling Lindner Davis department store on Euclid Ave. was known for its large Christmas tree.
Fashion makes a powerful statement at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
We enter the historic wardrobe of the Kent State University Museum.
The building that houses Ideastream Public Media in Downtown Cleveland held many tenants since 1912.
Learn about the Akron artist who gave the Black Keys its moniker - Alfred McMoore.
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield is one of the spookiest spots in Ohio.
A Cleveland artist brings his journey of self-discovery to the stage.
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Meet a Cleveland woman preserving the diaries of everyday Americans.
Northeast Ohio artists bring together birding, dance and jazz in Akron.
A stirring look at what is lost and found at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Fashion makes a powerful statement at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
We enter the historic wardrobe of the Kent State University Museum.
Learn about the Akron artist who gave the Black Keys its moniker - Alfred McMoore.
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield is one of the spookiest spots in Ohio.
A Cleveland artist brings his journey of self-discovery to the stage.
A once abandoned parking lot is now a gathering place with public art in Cleveland's AsiaTown.