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Pictures are Here!!!

I promised pictures so I am delivering pictures. I will first attach pictures of the Main Theatre auditorium (aka The Junk Drawer...Room). I found a ton of pretty cool looking "dust proof" file folders probably circa 1950s. Dust proof? Yeah right. If the company that makes these is still around perhaps I should send them one. I don't think they had this usage/storage in mind when they claimed "dust proof"!
The next set of pictures will be the 3rd floor room in front of the theatre auditorium. In Masonic days, this room was known as the Preparation Room. This is the room the Mason degree candidates would prepare for their degree certificates. In Drew & Myra tenure, this room will become the Majestic Bar & Lounge, for cocktails pre and post show. A much more festive use wouldn't you say? You will see Myra's talents at decorative painting and her painstaking efforts at plastering and painting. She worked hard for almost a week. I contributed minutely - I spackled the ceiling and the walls. I put up the piece of sheetrock on some pretty badly cracked and missing plaster. I also did some demon rolling of the primer on the walls.

Enjoy the pics.
Drew

Creating Theatre Bar Magic

So Drew and I have been in more great bars than we can count and we have of course cronicled the high points in our brains. In creating this great moody space, we wanted to use the elements that make people "feel" a certain way.... special, serious, funny, and most of all intentional in bringing the historic nature of the building into the present. I think we are on to something and its looking awesome. We are on a tight learning curve with rebuilding plaster mouldings and walls. Lots of gypsum dust up the nose and in the lungs. Today, I came home looking like Casper the friendly ghost. I was working on the gorgeous cove ceiling in the bar and yesterday I had plastered the whole thing and today, it was time to sand....thus the sheetrock dust! Tomorrow my "demon with a paint roller" will prime the ceiling. Once dried, I will work out a beautiful sunset sky inside the cove and hopefully create a wonderful illusion of being in the clouds.
That's all for today folks. I'm relaxing with a glass of wine in my cozy parlor. Y'all come see us real soon, hear?
Myra

The Big Cleanout

Okay I promise I will upload pics soon as you have to see the 'excavation' project begun yesterday in the Big Main theatre. I tore through piles and piles and piles of junk and sorted out the "trash" junk from the "good" junk. I created more piles to get loaded onto the Enfield public works dump truck and hauled off to the dump.
All day long I pulled material out including: 2x4s, 4x4s, metal rods, sheet rock, furniture, old lights, old radios, boxes and boxes of Rives & Co. Hardware store receipts, invoices and bills boxed by year (1951, 52..59...66...79...ad infinitum!!) Oi!!! They were believers in saving receipts let me tell you. Mind you Rives & Co., was the hardware store next door to the Lodge (back in the day) but probably closed down in the early 1970s!! The lodge theatre was their warehouse where they stored EVERYTHING!!! Plus, I think the theatre became the dumping ground for anyone and everyone in town that had cleaned out their houses (or their parents houses) and decided to store stuff here. There were dishes...loads of old waffle irons...anyone want waffles? you name it we got it!
I'm sorting through and we may have a yard sale...everything $1 (or more)..and maybe we will make enough to buy 5 theatre seats...It's a start.

had Jeff & Ray my trusty local workers over today to help bring all the junk to the dump truck and in a couple hours got the thing loaded to capacity (and overloaded). Tomorrow the truck comes back for Round two.

By 5:30 I looked at myself and my jeans and clothes could walk by themselves. I was dusty, dirty and smelly. Went directly to the laundry room after getting home stripped down and jumped in the shower and showered Twice!

Now you will get Ms Myra's first blog report. Today she finished off some spackling and sealing of the plaster moulding in the 3rd floor lounge room. If you have seen pics it is the room outside the theatre that has the red rug in it. We will build and/or install a bar in here to make $$$ before and after shows selling drinks and what nots. But I will turn the blog over to Myra and she will post her adventures today!