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==Progress Club?==
Interesting... noticed via the [[Sanborn Maps]] that by 1907, the Opera House was apparently known as the "Progress Club." <span style="font-family:Georgia, serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''''[[User:Admin|admin]]''''' • '''''[[User_talk:Admin|talk]]''''' </span> 17:18, 6 December 2009 (CST)
:I think it's just that the "Progress Club" had space in the building. See [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1905-02-02/ed-1/seq-6/;words=Opera+PROGRESS+Club+house+Pensacola+opera+House+Progress+CLUB], a 1905 ''Journal'' article which describes "the brilliant full evening dress ball given by the Progress Club in their elegant quarters in the Opera House building." <span style="font-variant:small-caps; vertical-align:5%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''[[User:Dscosson|dscosson]]''' • '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' </span> 17:26, 6 December 2009 (CST)