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Did the WHO ever play here :)

The thing in the back is a badger. Its also written on the glas 'badger quotation'

You should come back to check it out, it's been made into an outdoor musical venue.

Been a while since I posted too, a couple of years, anyway. Glad to see the post from Pat Ratchet. I would love to get a copy of his book on Ware. Pat, please let us know when it is out. Congrats on finishing it.

Thanks Sandy and N - some tiles
Those are the worse looking tiles I have ever seen.
Am wondering if they EVER looked good?

Google Joan C. and read her Bio. I did. flushed is correct. She was abused by family members, and did all kinds of things in her quest for Stardom.

My first electric looked JUST like that ! (sans smashing, of course!) It was a "prestige" brand, SUPER cheap...

That part of the followspot is known as the boomerang. It drops colored gels in the light path to color the light. They're used regularly, white light isn't pretty so gels are used to make the harsh light more appealing. Spots like these use gas filled HID lamps that deteriorate quickly when turned on and off and are left on for the whole performance, so the "black" color is used to snuff the light along with the iris. It's really a metal disk with heat reflective black paint on it.

Haha, the comments here are so funny.

Why would a theater need a disco ball? Did boogie fever sweep the audience?

Someone rocked out WAY too hard.

The records were just too much for the poor little guy...and not only are some of them trashed, but I swear it looks like some have melted together.

@Mica I want to assume that it is tiling, but time really has not been kind to them.

Makes me wonder when exactly you would need such colored lights shining upon you...then again I know nothing of stage/theater so I assume a red/yellow/green/blue light must be effective sometime.

Looks like it must have been a very impressive window...wonder why they painted it on the wall instead of on the bricked up portion?