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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
Here is the part of the auditorium that was saved and incorporated into the new theater. [outlined in orange] How do I know this? I used to live 5 blocks from this site and watched the entire process. I kept wondering why they did not demo the entire structure. As the months went by I could see they were using the old stage and theatrical fly structure for the new building. This saved them a lot of money. The yellow arrow shows the old fly structure as it appears today being incorporated into the new structure.
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Good thing you were there to witness what took place. I still find it interesting there is no mention of saving what they did anywhere on the Internet. Admittedly I didn't get into doing a search of newspaper archives.
When looking at what they did it's really difficult to imagine parts of the old structure were incorporated into the new, especially since they literally enveloped the old with new and totally changed the exterior appearance of what can be seen of the old.