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The Eucalyptus Amphitheater in Piedmont was an open-air rustic theater set in a grove of eucalyptus trees, where some giant trunks rose through the stage floorboards. Planned by Miss Florence Nace, the park’s first superintendent, it opened in the spring of 1908 with William Shakespeare’s “Loves Labor Lost,” and for the next decade Shakespeare was a staple of summer theater there, alongside productions such as “Alice in Wonderland” and “Peter Pan.” The venue also served as an outdoor auditorium when not used for plays, hosting annual meetings of the Sons of Norway and, in 1915, the “Pageant of Nations,” in which hundreds of children took part. It was demolished in the 1920s after the City of Piedmont acquired the property, and only level ground and a few tall eucalyptus trees remain today.
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