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Classical or serious music has a long history in South Carolina. The St. Cecilia Society (still in existence today) was founded in Charleston in 1762 to bring the best concert music available to that...
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Winthrop College students of the 1970s gather outdoors with a guitar on a warm spring day. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.
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Movie-going was an important source of entertainment during the 1920s and 1930s, and every town of any size in South Carolina had a movie theater in the downtown shopping district. The Rex Theater in...
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The Marquee for the Rex Theater on Liberty Street in Sumter. Photo around 1930, by Lecoq Studios. Courtesy of the Sumter County Museum Archives.
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The Dock Street Theater in Charleston. One of the first theaters in North America, a "New Theater on Dock Street" was built as early as 1735 or 1736, and Charlestonians have enjoyed good dramatic...
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"Saturday Night," an etching by artist James F. Cooper (1907-1968) from the late 1930s, is probably a scene from Pawley's Island, where Cooper owned a beach house. "Saturday Night" is more than simply...
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This group of Winthrop College students called their music organization The Caterwaulers, in a photo which appeared in the college 1910 yearbook. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The Jenkins Orphanage Brass Band in Charleston. The orphanage was begun in 1891 by an African-American minister, Reverend Daniel Jenkins, to remove young African-American children from the street and...
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These young ladies are all students at the Lashley School of Dancing in Greenville in 1934. Photo by Dowling. Courtesy of the Greenville County Historical Society.
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The Chatter Box dance band provided a big band sound for the popular dancing of the 1940s. Mary Taylor, at the extreme right, joined the "all girl violin section" in March 1944. Mrs. Taylor later ran...