Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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From its beginning in 1962, the Cooper Theater in St. Louis Park, Minnesota was an iconic cinema. One of just three of its kind, the Cooper was uniquely designed to show a groundbreaking new format of film: Cinerama. However, several decades later, it would all come crashing down.

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