Nick and I ended up being in New York for a little over two months. We traveled around quite a lot. We spent a lot of time in the Central New York area (Broome & Chenango counties) but also traveling downstate to Pleasant Valley (near Poughkeepsie) and up to the Adirondacks. We spent this time looking into jobs and houses to see if we might stay, but that didn't work out. It was wonderful to have an opportunity to spend so much time there, though.
Nick was born in the town of Norwich, and we ended up spending quite a bit of time there. They have a wonderful old movie theater that is still running (a bit of a miracle in small towns!). We went to a movie there and I took some pictures of the original elements of the building.
I couldn't find a lot of information about it, but one source online says the Colonia theater was opened in 1914. It's exciting to think that people have been going to see films there for over a hundred years.
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| The Colonia from an old postcard. I wish I knew the date, or could read the posters displayed out front. But it looks pretty early, 1910s or 1920s. |
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The glorious old marquee, though this replaced the smaller one that used to be on the building (seen in the picture above).
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| The old box office, no longer used, but still there! |
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| The sign above the women's bathroom. |
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| The gents bathroom. They were getting ready for the opening night of Jurassic Park, thus the dinosaurs. |
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| A view of the whole theater. They were putting up the dinosaurs when we left. |
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