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Firemen pose alongside fire engines for a group photograph outside the San Jose Civic Auditorium. Some men are in uniform. There is a boy sitting on the fender of the second fire engine from the left. Signs outside the auditorium advertise Boris Karloff in a production of "Arsenic and Old Lace" on a Friday and a Victory Dance to be held on a Saturday or Sunday, May 22. The San Jose Civic Auditorium, located at 135 West San Carlos Street, was constructed in 1934 and opened in 1936. "Arsenic and Old Lace" premiered in New York in 1941 with Boris Karloff in the role of Jonathan Brewster. The play ran in New York until 1944. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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