Good to see the old Palace Theater again. I was manager there from ‘88 through about '91 working for Steve Naify. I graffitied in the space under the right stairway going up to the balcony. I hope it’s still there. I still remember the first film I ran while there. “Mississippi Burning”. I lived in the attic for a while.
If I remember the history correctly, the original theater burned down sometime, I believe, in the thirties or forties. All that was left was the outside walls. The marquee fell in a windstorm sometime in the late forties and was never replaced.
I was manager of the California while Steve Naify was running it around ‘94 through '96. I helped convert the old Masonic temple into the two extra screens. For a while I was actually living there in an office above the lobby. BTW for you ghost hunters out there, there is a ghost cat I have seen several times near the projection booth.
Good to see the old Palace Theater again. I was manager there from ‘88 through about '91 working for Steve Naify. I graffitied in the space under the right stairway going up to the balcony. I hope it’s still there. I still remember the first film I ran while there. “Mississippi Burning”. I lived in the attic for a while. If I remember the history correctly, the original theater burned down sometime, I believe, in the thirties or forties. All that was left was the outside walls. The marquee fell in a windstorm sometime in the late forties and was never replaced.
I was manager of the California while Steve Naify was running it around ‘94 through '96. I helped convert the old Masonic temple into the two extra screens. For a while I was actually living there in an office above the lobby. BTW for you ghost hunters out there, there is a ghost cat I have seen several times near the projection booth.