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Article: Your comments: ; City should keep Municipal Auditorium, callers say

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November 10, 1999
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Gazette readers were asked Tuesday for their comments on a news story regarding the city's costly dilemma over what to do with the Municipal Auditorium. Here are some of the comments received:

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The Municipal Auditorium is certainly one of Charleston's finest institutions. It provides a venue for cultural events, for civic programs and presentations for educational ceremonies and all the rest, and it has space for large audiences in some comfort. In short, it's one of our finest and most attractive civic features, greatly enhancing the quality of our city life. That quality is not to be ignored. It also impacts and attracts new and expanding businesses to our town and the Kanawha Valley at ...

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