The Southern Theater

The 1910-era Southern featured vaudeville shows, Saturday silent movies for the kids, and original-language Scandinavian plays by the likes of August Strindberg and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

During the 1920s the Southern offered silent films with occasional evenings of live drama, vaudeville, and amateur variety shows.

as a coveted fancy dining destination (and by others as the site of marvelous pyrotechnics courtesy of the inebriated gentleman whose job it was to light the outside gaslight).

[citation needed] The restaurant, which includes a marble bar and ticket counter, closed in the mid 1960s and the building stood vacant for about ten years.

The Guthrie 2 had two primary components: a resident (Equity) acting company which performed "mainstage" shows at 8 PM (one of whose members was John Pielmeier, who later went on to write "Agnes of God"), and a "Community Space Program" which enabled local performers in all disciplines to use the space for late-night productions.