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Lyric Theater
* on the Old Bisbee Tour and Copper City Territory Tour
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Built in 1917 and replaced the OK Livery Stable and Feed Store.
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A two-story theater once called a movie palace.
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It was built by the Lyric Amusement Company who owned theaters in Douglas, Tombstone. Nogales, and Tucson.
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The Diamos family, owners, also owned and operated a theater nearby in Lowell.
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Ted DeGrazia married the owner's daughter and became the manager of the Lyric for many years.
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Rumored to have hosted harry Houdini and the Ziegfield Follies.
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Theater operations closed in the mid-'80s.
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Used now as the Bisbee Realty main office.
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Your tour guide watched JAWS and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND in the lyric as a child.
Ted Degrazia - Sonoflightning, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons