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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 05 > The silent-movie era lives on with one Cottage Grove man

The silent-movie era lives on with one Cottage Grove man

Buster Keaton classic ‘The General’ was shot in the city in 1926

By Randi Bjornstad / The Bulletin
April 5, 2009

COTTAGE GROVE — Alfred Allen remembers the summer of 1926 — he was just a slip of a lad — as “the first time anything happened to me that was exciting.”

For that matter, says Allen, who turns 92 on April 12, “It was probably the most....

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