The Hotel and Theater are connected. A brick wall divides the Theater and Hotel basement. I may be wrong, but I don’t think this wall is part of the original construction.
Vern
When you were “8ish” and running around the Moore Theatre who were you with? Some of the places in the theatre you mentioned were not open to the public, let alone to an eight year old kid. You would need to have keys to access some of the places you mentioned. When I was a teenager, during the 70’s, I worked at the theatre and know of the places you mentioned. I didn’t care much for the pool area. After a few explorations, I only went in that part of the basement to turn on and off the steam. Since it hadn’t been in use for many years, the whole area was decrepit. I do remember murals on the walls but I don’t recall what they looked like. I thought it a dangerous area to be if you were by your self. It was obvious that people who had no business there frequented the pool area, perhaps for shelter, or maybe for other reasons. My dad told me when he was a teenager (early 1940’s) he would go swimming in the Moore’s pool.
It’s possible we crossed paths.
Vern
When I was a teenager in the mid-seventies, I worked at the Moore Theatre. I opened the theatre closed the theatre, cleaned the theatre, took tickets, and spent a fair amount of time exploring. Thereâ€\s a lot more to the Moore than meets the eye. In the auditorium, backstage, above and around the dome and underneath in the basement I came across some unusual situations. I don’t believe in ghosts, but on a couple of occasions, when the theatre was empty, there is no denying that my friend Robby and I saw some things in the foyer and on the mezzanine that could not be explained. I’m not sure why but to me the theatre seems to be older than the turn of the 19th century (1907).
By-the-way, most of the live shows at the Moore while I worked there were awesome, Billy Joel, Supertramp, Electric Light Orchestra, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Climax Blues Band, Golden Earring, Chaka Kahn and so many others, some of which whose names Iâ€\ll never remember. Not all the shows were great some were horrible. I think the two worst were the Strawbs and the New York Dolls. The movies ranged from the unusual (200 Motels, Rocky Horror) to disturbing (EL Topo) and downright awful (Eraserhead). For a teenager such as me, working at the Moore was a dream come true.
Thanks Ken
The Hotel and Theater are connected. A brick wall divides the Theater and Hotel basement. I may be wrong, but I don’t think this wall is part of the original construction.
Vern
When you were “8ish” and running around the Moore Theatre who were you with? Some of the places in the theatre you mentioned were not open to the public, let alone to an eight year old kid. You would need to have keys to access some of the places you mentioned. When I was a teenager, during the 70’s, I worked at the theatre and know of the places you mentioned. I didn’t care much for the pool area. After a few explorations, I only went in that part of the basement to turn on and off the steam. Since it hadn’t been in use for many years, the whole area was decrepit. I do remember murals on the walls but I don’t recall what they looked like. I thought it a dangerous area to be if you were by your self. It was obvious that people who had no business there frequented the pool area, perhaps for shelter, or maybe for other reasons. My dad told me when he was a teenager (early 1940’s) he would go swimming in the Moore’s pool.
It’s possible we crossed paths.
Vern
When I was a teenager in the mid-seventies, I worked at the Moore Theatre. I opened the theatre closed the theatre, cleaned the theatre, took tickets, and spent a fair amount of time exploring. Thereâ€\s a lot more to the Moore than meets the eye. In the auditorium, backstage, above and around the dome and underneath in the basement I came across some unusual situations. I don’t believe in ghosts, but on a couple of occasions, when the theatre was empty, there is no denying that my friend Robby and I saw some things in the foyer and on the mezzanine that could not be explained. I’m not sure why but to me the theatre seems to be older than the turn of the 19th century (1907).
By-the-way, most of the live shows at the Moore while I worked there were awesome, Billy Joel, Supertramp, Electric Light Orchestra, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Climax Blues Band, Golden Earring, Chaka Kahn and so many others, some of which whose names Iâ€\ll never remember. Not all the shows were great some were horrible. I think the two worst were the Strawbs and the New York Dolls. The movies ranged from the unusual (200 Motels, Rocky Horror) to disturbing (EL Topo) and downright awful (Eraserhead). For a teenager such as me, working at the Moore was a dream come true.
Thanks Ken