Movies "Over the Waves" at Lumina, Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, N.C.

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Title	Movies "Over the Waves" at Lumina, Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, N.C.
Caption	A novel feature of the Lumina entertainment is "Movies over the waves" music and dancing in the background, the ever changing seat and starry sky excelling in grandeur painted decorations, and with balmy ocean breezes instead of artificial ventilation. E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee.
Transcription	Message on back of card: "Well Beulah how are you. I am just fine only rather warm for it sure is hot here. Wish you could have been with us yesterday you would have had a time. We [went] to the Ocean. I was in bathing right by the post in the picture. Fondly, Violet." Postmarked 22 July 1926.
Publisher	E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
Description	View of a movie screen in the water at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Many swimmers are in the ocean, and people are gathered in seats facing the screen.
Date	ca. 1926
Subject (tgm)	Motion picture audiences Motion picture theaters Hotels Oceans Swimmers Beaches
Subject Topical	Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic	Wrightsville Beach (N.C.) New Hanover County (N.C.)
Form General	Postcards
Language	English
Physical Description of Original	89 mm x 141 mm
Medium of Original	Paper
Collection in Repository	Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available online at http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
Local Identifier	P077;7-561
Citation	"Movies "Over the Waves" at Lumina, Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, N.C." in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Digital Collection	North Carolina Postcards
Repository	North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Copyright	Public domain.
filename	P077-7-561.tif

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