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Mr. Toot is the mascot not only of the North Iowa Band Festival, but also for Mason City as a whole. His image has appeared on everything from T-Shirts to business cards to city light poles. Now his image also appears on the geocaching map just south of Mason City Iowa. Each of these puzzles will include a fact or story in theme with the art series. Some may also include a question or two for you to answer correctly to find the coordinates.
Mason City
In 1906 a new medium of entertainment, motion pictures came to Mason City. It was spearheaded by J.M. Heffner, who came to Mason City a year earlier and opened the Bijou.
The first seats were kitchen chairs. The operating room was over the ticket box, consisting of a platform with a railing around it. The theatre seated 200 and the program was so short that 1,000 could see the show in an afternoon.
At first there were no Sunday shows, but Heffner soon found this was what the public wanted. Sunday performances were against the law so every Sunday evening for two years the police called on him and he wrote a check for $5 and costs ($8.35)
