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Samuel Jackson Brockwell was a Chapel Hill businessman who brought movies to the town. In 1902 he put up a three-story brick building at Franklin and Columbia streets, and in 1909 he opened the Pickwick, Chapel Hill's first movie theatre. He moved it in 1916 to a new building on the south side of Franklin and reopened it in May 1924 after a fire gutted it.
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Debra Pickrel's history of the Gamma Lambda Chapter of Phi Mu at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, produced for the chapter's fiftieth anniversary celebration of November 14 to 16, 2014. One hundred forty four pages with portraits and illustrations, some in color. Samuel J. Brockwell is discussed in the text.
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