Cla-Zel Theatre Project records

Collection

Identifier: MS-1086

Staff Only

Collection Overview

Abstract

The records for this project include many financial documents, projects, correspondence letters including both letters and e-mails, and other historical documents relating to the project and the history of the Cla-Zel Theatre.

Dates

Creation: 1926-2006

Extent

1.28 Cubic Feet (2 letter archive boxes, 1 half legal archive box, and 1 roll storage box)

0.05 Recordings (1 Betacam SP case)

Creator

Cla-Zel Theatre Project (Bowling Green, Ohio) (Organization)
Cla-Zel, Inc. (Bowling Green, Ohio) (Organization)

Scope and Contents

The collection for the Cla-Zel project centers mainly on the years from 2002 or so until 2006. Within the documents are financial records of the board of trustees of Cla-Zel Inc. as well as other groups involved in the project. The collection also contains fundraising records from both fundraisers Cla-Zel Inc. held in 2003 and 2005. Theses fundraising records include financial documents as well as event plans and participants for the fundraisers. Additionally this collection has a variety of correspondence between those who were working on various parts of the Cla-Zel project, including many emails and letters. Furthermore, there are also limited historical data and documents relating to early stages of the Cla-Zel's existence.

Biographical / Historical

Since the beginning of 2003 the historic Cla-Zel Theatre in downtown Bowling Green, Ohio has, with the effort of its board of trustees and others, tried to stay open. This theater means so much to the downtown of Bowling Green and to the state, as the oldest single-run movie theater in Ohio. In both 2003 and 2005 fund raisers attempted to raise money to put new life into the Cla-Zel project. Between these periods various contractors and buyers offered to purchase the Cla-Zel but no one made their move at that time. By the summer of 2005 both fundraising and trying to sell the theatre failed to save it, and in May of that year the Cla-Zel was shut down. Since the theater's closing, the Cla-Zel board of trustees received many offers for the theatre. Eventually the trustees realized that saving or revitalizing the theatre was not possible, and in November of 2007 the theater was sold.

Conditions Governing Access

No known access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.

Language of Materials

Materials in English.

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The records for the Cla-Zel Theatre Project were donated for the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University in December of 2007 by Paul Yon.