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The Ramova cinema building, no longer showing movies, was at the south end
of the "Lithuanian Downtown" on Halsted street, centering on Thirty-third
street. This building was located between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
streets. A large number of the early buildings of this district had been
built by the Lithuanian community leader, Antanas Olsauskas (pronounced
Ole-shau-skus), circa 1910. From the 1890s until the about the 1950s,
Bridgeport was Chicago's leading Lithuanian neighborhood. After the 1950s,
their numbers began to fall off. Nevertheless, a Lithuanian restaurant
still remains on Halsted, near Thirty-second street.
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