FOX THEATRE (ST. LOUIS)
Theater — St. Louis, Missouri
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public · est. 1929
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fox-theatre-st-louis-st-louis-missouri/

The Fabulous Fox of St. Louis—1929 Siamese-Byzantine palace.

A theater in St. Louis, Missouri, built in 1929, Fox Theatre (St. Louis) is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Fabulous Fox of St. Louis—1929 Siamese-Byzantine palace. The archive files it under haunted places and historic theaters. The dossier holds 2 reported claims and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. It still runs shows.

The Fabulous Fox is St. Louis's movie palace — the 1929 Siamese-Byzantine theatre that William Fox built as his Midwest flagship, the $5 million temple that closed in 1978 and was restored by the Strausses' flashlight inspection in 1981. It's still the city's Broadway house.
The theatre was the excess — the 4,500 seats, the twin organs, the 'largest and most magnificent temple of amusement' that sold tickets to theatres, not movies. It played 'Street Angel' opening night; it played kung-fu movies in the seventies; it reopened with 'Barnum' in 1982.
The theatre is still there — the Grand Center anchor, the Wurlitzer that still works, the stage that added 20 feet for the Broadway shows. The file keeps the Fox: the 1929 opening, the 1981 rescue, and the palace that's still fabulous.
The Fox is the archive's palace file — the Siamese-Byzantine flagship, the Strauss restoration, and the theatre that's still the city's.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Fox is the archive's palace file — the 1929 movie temple, the one-year restoration, and the theatre that anchors Grand Center.
A palace that was restored keeps its marquee — the file's suggestion being that the Fox's hold is the rescue: the flashlight inspection, the $3 million restoration, and the theatre that's still the 'Fabulous Fox.'

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported a figure in the upper balcony and a man in the mezzanine. Fox Theatre (St. Louis)'s lore is cast like a company: the workers who never left and the audience that never quite emptied. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.
  source: Fox Theatre (St. Louis) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis))
· [Anecdotal] reported anomalies: Reported backstage voices after hours. Fox Theatre (St. Louis)'s lore is cast like a company: the workers who never left and the audience that never quite emptied. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Sources including 'Fox Theatre (St. Louis)' keep the claim in circulation. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.
  source: Fox Theatre (St. Louis) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis))

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Fox Theatre (St. Louis) — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis)

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