THE BOJANGLES CINEPLEX Now under new management, the current owner is determined to bring the old building back into the public eye, and screens a variety of hard-to-find as well as popular movies (some of which are ‘private’ screenings of banned films). The Bojangles has finally picked up a following that can support it, and so it hangs on grimly, keeping a head above bankruptcy. It is dressed in typical cinematic style – red swirly carpet and curtains, gold trim, pastel walls the colour of dust between the dark wood pannelling, a creaking staircase which leads to the smaller and cosier upper seating area, and rows of vinyl covered chairs, the type that flip up.
THE BALCONY Theatre chairs are paired in two, with a slighty curved bannister front that repeats in a shell-like pattern all along the upper back wall. Curtains and a short carpeted wall separate one couple from another, so that privacy can be found here.
BOJANGLES HISTORY Constructed in the late sixties, the Bojangles began life as a small theater, under the name of Sepulchre, where plays of tragedy would be staged on a weekly basis – Friday and Saturday nights. As the popularity of the theater located in the narrow two story building waned, it was transformed into a movie house, the stage began to hold nothing more than a giant white screen where black and white art house movies would be shown.
((Written by Dee/Satyr))