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Mercedes Castelo 1905 - 1993

Mercedes Castelo was born on May 5, 1905, and died at age 87 years old in February 1993. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mercedes Castelo.
Mercedes Castelo
zip code 92073
May 5, 1905
February 1993
Female
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  • 05/5
    1905

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    May 5, 1905
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  • 02/dd
    1993

    Death

    February 1993
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    Cause of death
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    Mercedes Castelo lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1905, in the year that Mercedes Castelo was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1920, she was only 15 years old when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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