From the Elizabethton Walking tour brochure (Stop #29)
The Bonnie Kate Theater, another Classical Revival
Design, formally opened on May 16, 1926. All 500 of
the seats were filled and the audience enjoyed the
showing of a silent film. A local music program
"Barrels of Fun" originated here in the 1930s and in the
1940s was broadcast by two radio stations (one next
door) to a listening audience of 3.2 million people in
the southeast area. This was the first theater East of
the Mississippi to have rocking chair seating (1969).
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