Yep, that's it!
The last time I was there was in the late 1990s, I believe. It was an afternoon auction of movie posters and other movie advertising the theater had amassed. The theater has been in business for a very long time. The sale got a lot of hype and attracted a large audience of collectors who thought this might be the chance of a lifetime.
Nobody knew for sure what all was going to be sold because the auctioneer hadn't been able to sort and list it all, so her advertising mentioned only a few of the best items. As soon as I got my auction booklet after registering, I saw that there weren't any treasures to be had.
About 80% of it was no older than the 1970s and not very collectible. There was so much of it, mostly from bland films of only a couple of decades before. Except for a very few items, interest plummeted and sale prices were low. The auctioneer started bundling items to get bids. She actually began chastising the dwindling crowd for losing interest!
Of course, that only offended all these seasoned collectors who knew more about the value of the stuff than she did and were already upset for coming such a long way to waste their time.
One item I wish I had bought was a turntable (the size of a coffee table) for playing soundtrack records in sync with the movie, back in the transition to sound era. They couldn't get a $500 minimum bid and withdrew it from sale. I think it maybe was worth that as a movie history relic, though useless otherwise.
Anyway, sorry I rambled. But it is a nice old theater great for experiencing movies with a large audience.
"All necessary truth is its own evidence." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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