Ode to Pre-War Football Cardboard

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by cfhofer

That is a great football Jeff. Nice early signature of Grange too. Museum quality stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Mark. Appreciate the feedback. The football was signed at a theater from the inscription. I wonder whether it was a premier or something. Otherwise why would someone bring a football for him to sign?

It doesn't look like any of Grange's movies came out in 1929 but perhaps this was the first showing of one of his previous movies at this theater. Who knows?

jeff

[cfhofer]

Jeff,

Any idea where that theater was? If you can identify the theater maybe we can track down a local newspaper article from that day.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by cfhofer

Jeff,

Any idea where that theater was? If you can identify the theater maybe we can track down a local newspaper article from that day.

Says "Iowa Theater" on the inscription. I did some research on it a while back. It may be the Iowa Theater still located in Madison County, IA as its history says its been around since the 1800s. But the name is so common that I don't know this for sure. There are a couple of other existing Iowa Theaters in the state of Iowa too.

Couldn't find any reference to Grange being anywhere on 1/21/29 but am not an expert at digging through newspaper archives.

jeff

[revmoran]

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by revmoran

Wow, your research skills are second to none, Mike! Which newspaper archive service do you use?

jeff

[revmoran]

newspapers.com for that one

[cfhofer]

Great detective work Rev! Mystery solved.