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By COURTESY OF THE BIJOU THEATRE

May 19, 2008 | 12:00 a.m. CDT

The $2.5 million Bijou restoration wrapped up in June 2006. Bill Haslam, mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., spearheaded the effort to bring the old theater back to life after it shut down in 2004.

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