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 This postcard shows a photograph taken sometime after the Hall's opening. It proclaims the Hall as the "Largest Convention Hall in the Southwest." The Hippodrome, which was a theater and entertainment center, is clearly shown in this photograph, which would date it no earlier than the mid-1920s.

Convention Hall #1

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