Shea's Seneca Theater

My earliest memory (literally my FIRST memory) is being carried by my mother through the Seneca Theater in what must have been 1961-1962 (I’d have been 1-2 yrs old). I once told my mother I had this spotty memory of being carried through a very big place that had really high fancy gold ceilings and her reply was “You can’t possibly remember that, you were an infant!” It turns out that my grandmother was a cleaning lady at the the Seneca, and she lived in an apartment directly behind it on the next street. When my mother would visit her Saturday mornings from Hamburg, the suburb where we lived, grandma would use her keys to go in through the stage door (near her apartment) and they’d walk through the auditorium & out through the front lobby doors to go to Grants and to grocery shop on Seneca St. And then they’d go home the same way, so I was probably carried through that building 100 times in those couple of years. I also remember hearing mom say that her ‘wedding china’ (1950?) came from all her girlfriends collecting the “movie dishes”, which were give-aways at that time, to get her a full matching set!!! How’s that for a connection?