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Photo 5, Main Street scene c. 1919, Louisville Historical Museum E -C N -12 <br />Photo 5 shows the Rex Theatre on the left. This photo shows a poster that is also shown <br />in Photo 4, and so is also believed to have been taken in around 1919. <br />From 1920 to 1927, the building was owned by James Carper, who is also listed in <br />directories for that period as the manager of the Rex. <br />According to an account printed in the August 1994 issue of the Louisville Historian and <br />entitled "Movie Theaters in Our Town," live piano music for silent movies was <br />performed in the theater in the 1920s, some of it performed by Mary Ferrari Franchini <br />