Welcome Home 1919 Opera House
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Welcome Home 1919 Opera House
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The Opera House is decorated for the June 10, 1919 celebration.
The Woodstock Sentinel June 12, 1919 p6:
Pavement Dancing
Between the hours of 3 and 5 in the afternoon and 10 and 12 in the evening, dancing was enjoyed on the pavement between the courthouse and city hall. Music was furnished by Weldon’s band and the pavement was well fitted up for the occasion. In the evening electric lights, which had been strung across the pavement and lighted, making it indeed a pretty scene with much merriment and joyfulness as the sweethearts, brothers, sisters wives and husbands and even mothers and fathers, old and young alike, joined in the dance, merrily swinging their partners to the music of the band in the evening breeze. Although the afternoon dancing was much enjoyed, the extreme heat prevented many from joining the merry crowd of dancers but in the evening the cool breeze made the dancing more enjoyable and old and young alike joined in until the pavement was crowded the dancing room was very small, yet the crowd stayed until almost the hour of twelve, when dancing stopped and everyone returned home, declaring a pavement dance an enjoyable feature for summer entertainment.
The committee in charge of this feature of the day's events had prepared the dancing space by spreading a barrel of floor wax on the pavement brick, thus giving it a smooth, slippery surface, which the dancers reported was very satisfactory.
During the dancing in the early part of the evening a large crowd of spectators assembled on all sides, in all several thousand people being congregated to enjoy the beautiful sight. The booths committee had established headquarters next to the dancing space, where the revelers enjoyed the refreshments which were served without price or pay to all who wished them.
For more information see Item #465: "Welcome Home 1919 train depot"
The Woodstock Sentinel June 12, 1919 p6:
Pavement Dancing
Between the hours of 3 and 5 in the afternoon and 10 and 12 in the evening, dancing was enjoyed on the pavement between the courthouse and city hall. Music was furnished by Weldon’s band and the pavement was well fitted up for the occasion. In the evening electric lights, which had been strung across the pavement and lighted, making it indeed a pretty scene with much merriment and joyfulness as the sweethearts, brothers, sisters wives and husbands and even mothers and fathers, old and young alike, joined in the dance, merrily swinging their partners to the music of the band in the evening breeze. Although the afternoon dancing was much enjoyed, the extreme heat prevented many from joining the merry crowd of dancers but in the evening the cool breeze made the dancing more enjoyable and old and young alike joined in until the pavement was crowded the dancing room was very small, yet the crowd stayed until almost the hour of twelve, when dancing stopped and everyone returned home, declaring a pavement dance an enjoyable feature for summer entertainment.
The committee in charge of this feature of the day's events had prepared the dancing space by spreading a barrel of floor wax on the pavement brick, thus giving it a smooth, slippery surface, which the dancers reported was very satisfactory.
During the dancing in the early part of the evening a large crowd of spectators assembled on all sides, in all several thousand people being congregated to enjoy the beautiful sight. The booths committee had established headquarters next to the dancing space, where the revelers enjoyed the refreshments which were served without price or pay to all who wished them.
For more information see Item #465: "Welcome Home 1919 train depot"
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1919
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Tripp Photo, Woodstock, “Welcome Home 1919 Opera House,” Woodstock Public Library Archives, accessed March 10, 2026, https://woodstockpubliclibraryarchives.omeka.net/items/show/459.
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