Plaza Theater

Status: Closed

Parish: Orleans

Location: New Orleans

From the New Orleans Jazz History Canal Street Walking Tour brochure: 841 Canal Street: “Local theater featuring movies and local music. Mary Nadal, later the wife of Robert Hoffman, accompanied silent pictures here with a piano equipped with an ÒOrgatronÓ device that converted its sound to an organ.” Central Business District theater that featured minstrel shows, ragtime, vaudeville, and jazz:

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