Have a look at what the staff of WDXE Radio found upstairs at their station!

The WDXE station is located in the old Princess Theatre building on the Lawrenceburg Public Square. The 500-seat capacity Princess Theatre was Lawrenceburg’s prime motion picture venue until the 1,200-seat Crockett Theater opened its doors on North Military Street on September 13, 1950.

This paper was probably used to identify shipments of movie reels in transit. The fragments of tape in this photo are from the Vaughan Printing Office, which stood just a few yards away from the Princess, on the site of the old Suntrust building which currently houses the James D. Vaughan Southern Gospel Museum. Vaughan operated a diversified media empire from that location, including a singing school, a printing office, one of the first radio stations in Tennessee, and one of the South’s first independent record labels.

Thanks for sharing this awesome treasure with us, WDXE!

Photo source: WDXE Radio Facebook Page