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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

A juvenile court judge sat in the audience with arrest warrants drafted, watching Elvis Presley's hips for anything too suggestive - the six sold-out shows of August 1956 remain the most famous nights this room has seen. The Florida Theatre at 128 East Forsyth Street in downtown Jacksonville opened on 8 April 1927, a Mediterranean Revival movie palace built on the site of an old police station and hailed by the next morning's paper as "a palace of dreams." Designed by R. E. Hall and Company wit...