![]() Equipped to exacting standards, Kasser includes a guest artist suite, green room, scenery/props construction shop, makeup room, electric shop, wardrobe room and control room. The heart of the Kasser is its intimate 500-seat auditorium, including an oversized stage, orchestra pit and state-of-the-art technical features. While awaiting curtain time, patrons can visit the lobby’s gallery space, enjoy exhibition displays and gather for casual conversation. Once inside, theater-goers enter a 4,600 square foot lobby, distinguished by an elegant staircase to the balcony. In its architecture, the 53,000 square foot theater pays tribute to the Spanish mission style of the University’s historic buildings, welcoming visitors with a sweeping plaza and broad, arcaded loggia. Intimate, convenient and with excellent acoustics, Kasser is an exciting venue for both performers and audiences. Rupert Word used the window of the Snodgrass Theater to display coffins in the 1930s and that the kids found this creepy.The Alexander Kasser Theater is the University’s newest, flagship performance facility. There is also a slanted floor under Bill White’s law practice. In the 1975 photo below, Word Furniture still might be the business in this building.ġ930 ad for Word Furniture from the Reminderįor other photos of the square showing this building, see North side of the square.īill Parks reminds us that the only slanted theater floor under a wooden floor on the square is not found in the Ritz Theater. A 1930s ad from the Reminder, the JCHS yearbook, is shown below.Įisenstadt Photo of “The Melon Seller, 1930sĪccording to the phone books, Word Furniture was still in this building in 1961 and in 1966. The Snodgrass Theater building was home to Word Furniture Company, shown in the famous Alfred Eisenstadt WPA photo taken in the early 1930s. We have not found the original source, though it was likely The Scottsboro Citizen. Note: This article was from a file in the Heritage Center. SnodgrassHe wrote an editorial discussing his new theater and showing this drawing of it: When the new building was build in its current location, owner E. Ann Chambless recalls that when the original Snodgrass Theater was torn down and the current Derrick building constructed, there were still costumes in the attic. This was, of course, a live performance theater, not a movie theater. The original Snodgrass Theater was in the location of the Derrick Building (the Rough and Tumble building on the corner of Laurel and Caldwell). ![]() Some kind of sign, probably advertising the current production, can be seen in front of the building. Notice the theater in the far left of this 1917 photo, when it would have been only three years old. The new opera house referenced in this ad from the 1913 Progressive Age as nearing completion on Main Street is the Snodgrass Theater building.įar left, Snodgrass Theater just after it was built William Whiteġ914 Progressive Age advertisement for the new opera house He did not work in either store but went back and forth between them.” Current view: Law Office of J. “Daddy had two stores, this one and the one in Hollywood. His daughter Mary Johnson Claytor, who is now 96 years old, remember working for her daddy in this store. During World War II, this building had been home to Walter Johnson’s grocery store. Ann Chambless says that this business was in an old building on the lot where Word Furniture store was later located. In the 1910-1911 Young and Company Directory of Alabama includes a listing for E. A stone panel above windows reads “1914 - SNODGRASS THEATER.” The ground floor has been altered to add glass display windows. It is described as a two-story, light tan brick building featuring a low parapet with a corbelled cornice and square windows on second floor with small panes of opaque glass. ![]() Built in 1914, the Snodgrass Theater Building is located at 109 East Laurel Street. ![]()
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