On This Day...

June 1, 1955

At the final dress rehearsal for the 1955 season opener–The Merry Widow, the audience would be the first to experience “the fans.”   Those huge electrically-driven fans have 9-foot propellers, and were originally designed to disperse fog on airfields and thoroughfares.


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