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LAKEVIEW AMPHITHEATER is located on the shore of Lake Langhofer in Regional Park. It has been home to a wide variety of community events, and is the birthplace of the nationally-acclaimed Smoke on the Water Barbecue and Music Festival. The Lakeview Amphitheater has a seating capacity of 4,500 with 138 permanent stadium seats and an overflow concrete slab that can seat another 500. The remaining land- scape is open for lawn chairs or to just spread out a blanket and enjoy the atmosphere and lake breezes.
SAENGER THEATRE is an historic theater in Pine Bluff. Located at West Second Avenue and Pine Street on the southeast corner, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Built in 1924 to a design by Emile Weil, it is a Classical Revival brick building with an ornate interior that was last restyled in 1937. It is one of only a handful of Saenger movie palaces that remain.
STRENGTHEN THE ARM OF LIBERTY MONUMENT is a replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) in Pine Bluff Memorial Gardens, on the south side of 10th Avenue between Georgia and State Street in Pine Bluff. It was placed by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) as part of its 1950s era campaign, "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty." The statue is 8 feet tall, made of copper, and is mounted on concrete base 3 1/2 feet high. The statue faces the Pine Bluff Civic Center. It is one of two BSA- placed statues in the state; the other in Fayetteville. The statue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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