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Michelle Espinoza saw her first movie at the Savage Theater. She had her first date there. Her school even took her on field trips to the theater.
Back in the day, the Savage Theater stayed hopping busy. It was the place to be on a Friday night. For Espinoza, the Savage is a special place.
The same is true for many people who live in Booneville, said Susan Bulger, the director of Chamber of Commerce of South Logan County/Booneville and Magazine.
Everyone in town has memories of the place, and everyone wants to see it come back.
There is not a single building in the town of Logan that is not historically connected to the annals of times past where the names of many civic, business, and political leaders strived and even thrived in what was an ever-growing city full of vigor and vision â most of which occurred in the first 30 years of the 20th century.
Although few people really have given it much thought because history never looks like history when you are living through it, the fact is that there are numerous structures in Logan which are over 100 years old. Those buildings, like others which are not quite as aged, all were a part of a past where each brick in every property has outlasted the person(s) who had the vision to develop the real estate.