It was in town, the bucolic postcard view notwithstanding. The small building, I think, was the Garden theater, which was converted to stores for a while before being reborn as a theater – but that’s another site.

This doesn’t look like the center of the universe, but it was only a block of Hennepin, the city’s entertainment district. (Then and now, incidentally.)

The Shubert was sold for $250,000 in 1935. Its next incarnation was . . .