Historic Cocoa Village
STATE THEATER: PAST AND PRESENT
BY NORMA J. LEIGHTY BAIRD
HE STATE THEATER central east coast of Florida, a town
T
originally began as the that was becoming well-known as a
Aladdin Theater. This theater tourist area.
was built in 1924 for ap- A dream of Fred Bryan and Herbert
proximately $80,000 by W. M. Cogswell was to have a more stable
H. Bower Construction Company, and pretentious facility for the type
a qualified company with 20 years of entertainment they felt the town of
The State Theater
experience in building quality homes Cocoa should have. From all accounts,
as it appeared in
1955 ... and as it
and office buildings. The Aladdin many of the citizens of Cocoa were
appears today.
Theater of Cocoa was a modern not in agreement with these two
building in a progressive town on the gentlemen. Apparently this did not
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