Palace Theatre

Here is a photo of Stu Rasmussen taken last November:
http://tinyurl.com/p5ad86

Story in the LA Times today about Stu Rasmussen, manager of the Palace and new mayor of Silverton. He is now a woman, the first transgender mayor in the US. He notes in the article that the theater is losing money.

This is a charming, small town theater but sadly the signs of aging are clearly visible due to shabby and peeling paint under the multi-bulb marquee.
The center aisle seating has been recently replaced while the stylish but older ones on house ‘left and right’ need help.
I wish they could afford a set of better looking traveler curtains because the present set look like a huge white bed sheet stretched tightly across the screen, offering no fullness.
I also noticed, interestingly, there were two organ consoles sitting under covers in the auditorium; one electronic while the other was made for traditional pipes. How wonderful if the latter could be fully installed and used for silent films, concerts and during intermission. This would certainly pull in larger audiences.

Does anyone have any idea if there is a new website for the Palace, this link above no longer works.

The Palace has been reopened for several months now (Dec. 2003), and it boasts a new, wonderful dolby surround sound system! Their 40 foot screen also puts to shame many of the smaller auditoriums at your local muli-plex modern theater!
Bruce, a patron of the Palace in Silverton, Oregon, near Salem, Oregon.