English: Title: The Capitol Theatre, also known as the Capitol Music Hall, in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; It is the largest theater in West Virginia. For many years, it has served as the home of Jamboree USA, a live country music show broadcast on WWVA from 1926 until 1977, when was the second-longest running radio show in the United States (second only to the Grand Ole Opry). The Capitol was designed by architect Charles W. Bates of Wheeling and opened on Thanksgiving day, 1928. The theatre, which included a ballroom, initially presented movies and stage shows and later concerts by the Wheeling Symphony Society, which moved into the building in 1929. In 1969, WWVA moved its studio to the Capitol building, where it produced and broadcast its Jamboree music shows. In 2006, Clear Channel, which had purchased 1170 AM and the Capitol building, cut the program due in part to declining popularity, and later closed the theatre after the building failed an annual safety inspection in the spring of 2007. In 2009, the Wheeling Convention and Visitors Bureau announced that it would purchase the then-Capitol Music Hall.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.