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Elwyn Petrie 1905 - 1978

Elwyn Petrie of Mobile, Mobile County, AL was born on March 14, 1905, and died at age 73 years old in August 1978.
Elwyn Petrie
Mobile, Mobile County, AL 36605
March 14, 1905
August 1978
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Elwyn Petrie's History: 1905 - 1978

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  • 03/14
    1905

    Birthday

    March 14, 1905
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  • 08/dd
    1978

    Death

    August 1978
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    Elwyn Petrie lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1905, in the year that Elwyn Petrie was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1922, by the time he was 17 years old, on James Joyce's 40th birthday, his book Ulysses was published in France. The book covers the experiences of an Irishman in Dublin on an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Now considered a classic, it was controversial at the time. Due to some sexual content, the book was banned in the U.S. during the 1920's and the U.S. Post Office destroyed 500 copies of the novel.
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