XVThe movie theater had been built in 1898 for music and stage. It started showing movies in 1912, they had records of showing Birth of Nation and while the film offends most people, it is the oldest American film still intact. By the time Wings had won best picture; National Theater was only showing movies. In the fifties drive-ins stole business and in 1982 it had gone chapter 11. Two unmarried women in their thirties borrowed money from their daddies in 1983 and done their best to restore it. They had turned it into a second run and classics theater that had two annual festivals. It turned a profit.
It was a stately wooden building with an old school marquee on each side of the widow’s walk. The windows were small and the paint was chipping but the bathrooms were clean. The urinals wer
