(KNSI) – The Paramount Theatre turns 100 years old later this year, and the Paramount Center for the Arts has several events lined up over the next few months to celebrate.
“The Paramount Center for the Arts is here for art, for the thousands who produce it and the tens of thousands who consume it,” said Paramount Center for the Arts’ Board Chair King Banaian. “For a century, we have had this emblem of the wider world around us, a gateway between that world and the Upper Plains, through which those who came later could see themselves and share their discovery with the neighbor sitting or standing next to them.”
Century In St. Cloud: Inside and Out Artifacts Around Paramount
ST. CLOUD One of the most iconic images in downtown St. Cloud has to be the marquee outside Paramount Theatre.
Derick Segerstrom is the manager of the Visual Arts Department at the Paramount. He says the marquee we know today was installed in the spring of 1946.
It features a 500 blub canopy and a 456 bulb neon tube fountain. We know that it weighs about three tons because in 1997 they removed the fixture to repair and restore it as part of a major renovation project the entire building went through.
When there are regular shows at the Paramount the sign on the marquee has to be changed regularly, which is still done by hand.
Starlog.
Starlog focused more toward the sci-fi side but often they would overlap.
I ran into our local mall’s
Waldenbooks to grab the new issue of
Fangoria sporting a cover and center story to
Prophecy, the environmental monster movie (NOT the series of warlock movies with Christopher Walken that would come years later).
Monster movie. That’s all I needed to hear. Its poster glared back at me in glorious double-paged insert color spread from my parents’
Rolling Stone magazine.
Some kind of mutated animal. It was female and she was pissed. Man defiled her world and it was payback time, bitches. I knew I had to see it and I got my friends in the neighborhood all worked up with hype. Back then there was no Internet and DVD extras to bring you every spoiling piece of minutia as well as “trailer reviews” to analyze with their picking fly shit out of pepper “analyses.” No advanced “spoilers.” No under-sexed dorks hating on something in advance with snarky co
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This year is the 100th anniversary of the historic Paramount Theatre in downtown St. Cloud. It was on Christmas Eve in 1921 when the then-called Sherman Theatre opened.