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Hupmobile Dealership. Another Mott showroom was located at 1738 14th Street NW. This was a
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Plymouth Theatre motion picture theater was created as a neighborhood theater for Black people with its grand opening in 1943. Morris Hallett was the architect for this adaptive reuse that took the former Plymouth car salesroom and converted it into a 400-seat (300-seat by some accounts) movie
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Furniture Company was located at 8203 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1955 they expanded to include 1365 H Street as one of their furniture stores. This lasted until 1957, when both King Furniture and the Jet Arena were listed in the telephone directory of that year.
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