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Seminole Theatre

The 1940 Story

..The spring of '40, they led away *Big Shorty*..

writer/SOUTH DADE NEWS LEADER\retired..page7

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*...Everyone got plastered...

 

The floor had a curved taper down from front to back. In preparing the fill for the floor a grader and packing roller were brought in through a large door in the back wall. After this large floor was poured, the building was shaping up!

The entire sprinkler system had all been roughed in at this time. The stucco plasterers had completed their outside work and were doing the first inside coat, known as the Brown Coat. The projection booth, way up high in the top of the balcony was completed, along with lower front partition walls that divided the lobby from the barber shop on the left and the soda shop on the right. The ticket booth in the center of the lobby had been built with the keystone finish on the exterior walls. Beautiful!

Special molding plaster craftsmen came down from Miami to do the huge classic curved white molding on each side. Here, they made a template, they pushed along on a precise track. They did the brown coat first, then about ¼ inch was added to the track making room for the white "lime-putty" coat. This was a painstaking process, finishing only a few feet a day.


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