The northwest block of North Main Street in Bowling Green became a long center of entertainment and community life, where residents once gathered downtown for vaudeville acts, silent films, theatrical plays, talking pictures, opera performances, parades, and social evenings, and where even an attempted hot air balloon flight ended when the balloon caught fire and came down over the block. The Cla-Zel Theater at 129 North Main Street, built in 1926 in the Classical Revival style by local architect Jack Rainey for S.P. Stewart and Son, featured Tiffany lamps and a Marr and Colton theater pipe organ from Warsaw, New York, accompanied silent one-reel films of about 15 minutes, added a Western Electric sound system in February 1930, and operated continuously as a single-screen movie house until 2004, making it the longest running movie theater in Ohio, with its marquee and several interior features still surviving. At 135 North Main Street, Rogers Drugs served residents for decades with a lunch counter and soda fountain after Doctor Rogers sold his interest to Charles Rogers in February 1870, and George and Clayton Rogers took over in 1891. The Exchange Bank Building at 101 North Main Street, built in 1871 on the northwest corner of the Four Corners, housed Bowling Green's oldest bank, founded in 1871 by Edwin Reed and Frank Beverstock, and later also contained the Bowling Green Library, which opened in 1914 in two small rear rooms after the ladies of the Shakespeare Round Table organized books and subscription support. Music also animated the area through the Bigelow Family Band, a local favorite that played weekly at the Four Corners, with John Bigelow and his eight children performing from a wooden bandstand he helped build, while his son Jack Bigelow formed an All-Girl Band in 1921 that toured the vaudeville circuit and state fairs and played at the Wood County Fairgrounds for 25 years. Other historic buildings on the block also served commercial, civic, and social roles: the Mercer Block, built in 1903 and later known as the Masonic Temple, housed furniture, medical, dental, optical, legal, restaurant, beauty, and civic uses, while its upper floors have been known as the Masonic Lodge since 1920; and the Mckenzie-Kabig Block, built in 1892, housed Frank Kabig's butcher shop, the Wood County Public Library by 1919, and later a variety of businesses, and today remains in use as the home of Pisanello's Pizza.