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Pioneer 3 latest in long NC movie theater history

The Pioneer 3 Theatre in Nebraska City is the latest in a long line of movie theaters in the community, and the history of movie-going here is almost as old as movie-making itself, if an article that appeared in “Nebraska City History: 1854-2004,” published by the Nebraska City News-Press Inc., which featured reprinted articles from the 1954 edition of the city’s history, is any indication.The article, entitled “Movie Tickets Five & Ten Cents,” reads as follows:The first moving picture in Nebraska City was “The Great Train Robbery” and pictured of the Japanese-Russian War.

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