In case you didn’t know, the vertical Paramount sign that was recently placed back on the building is the original sign! It sat in a barn disassembled for decades and nobody knew until the man in possession of it(whom I believe was in his 90’s) told someone that he had it! It was restored and placed back in its original spot. So cool!
I was lucky enough to have had a chance to play a concert there back in 2001. At the time it was partly owned by the father of one of my friends. It still had all of its original seating and stage. I even have have video of this event and it’s hard to believe that most of what you see in the video is gone. It was still beautiful then. I don’t understand what these people were thinking. As for my friend’s dad, he had a smaller share and almost no say in what happened to the building. To this day his extremely disappointed with how the current owners have destroyed this theater that was in perfect working order just a decade ago. This city is mostly to blame for this screw up. They should have worked harder to protect it from people like this, especially after what had to be done to save The Paramount.
In case you didn’t know, the vertical Paramount sign that was recently placed back on the building is the original sign! It sat in a barn disassembled for decades and nobody knew until the man in possession of it(whom I believe was in his 90’s) told someone that he had it! It was restored and placed back in its original spot. So cool!
I was lucky enough to have had a chance to play a concert there back in 2001. At the time it was partly owned by the father of one of my friends. It still had all of its original seating and stage. I even have have video of this event and it’s hard to believe that most of what you see in the video is gone. It was still beautiful then. I don’t understand what these people were thinking. As for my friend’s dad, he had a smaller share and almost no say in what happened to the building. To this day his extremely disappointed with how the current owners have destroyed this theater that was in perfect working order just a decade ago. This city is mostly to blame for this screw up. They should have worked harder to protect it from people like this, especially after what had to be done to save The Paramount.