And on this 50th anniversary of the last day NoDS played at the Durfee Theatre, we finally reach the box office lobby and what happened other and I discovered on the 25th. Here's a photo of that inner lobby:
The counter on the far right is where you purchased your tickets for the show. It's also where my friend asked if they had any of the souvenirs that had been handed out earlier in the month. I'm pretty sure the manager's wording was that the distributor no longer had any left for our area as they had all already been handed out. He didn't say only drive-ins and not indoor theaters had handed them out - but there was also no mention of indoor theaters having handed them out. And as I've said, none of the indoor theaters' newspaper ads in this area had advertised anything about handing out the souvenirs, so I suppose we can derive from all that what we will.
Another thing about this lobby that's worthy of note is also on the right side of the photo. You may have noticed the arch on the wall with a wooden structure that might look like it's a bench. Well, it was of sorts, but what it really was might surprise you because it was the frame to a fish pond. Yup, actual living fish swam around in their own little pond. It was a feature I suspect very few theaters ever had.
But what we're most interested in is the display case under the stairs to the balcony because that's where the next and final NoDS materials were displayed. On the right and left sections of the case some things that we'd already seen displayed out on the street were again displayed, the 14 X 36 A poster Insert Cards. However, the poster that was displayed in the center section was not the A poster but the B poster. The Durfee actually went with both, and it was very interesting to see color images of what we'd so often seen in the B&W newspaper ads, especially how really red the blood running from Collinwood was. It also struck as interesting that there seemed to be more blood in the NoDS B poster than there was in the hoDS B poster even though one might think it would have been the opposite given that hoDS was about vampires. But then, who were we to question the poster artists' visions?
And here's a close interpretation of what the display looked like:
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So, after taking in that display case, it was time to go inside the theater, pick out our seats, and look forward to seeing NoDS multiple more times...