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State Theatre marquee coming down

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State Theatre marquee coming down

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Allison Brophy Champion

Friday, November 9, 2007

South Main Street’s most famous - or, perhaps, infamous - sign is getting a facelift.

That’s right, the peeling marquee at the State Theatre comes down today.

Though it’s evolved a bit over the years, the landmark sign looks pretty much like it did - minus the wear and tear - when it first went up in 1938 as a Pitts Theatre, a chain of movie houses run by state senator Benjamin Pitts.

But believe it or not, the original marquee was lined in neon. Those bright lights are coming back.

A crew and crane from the Wagner Electric Sign Co. of Ohio is scheduled to arrive in Culpeper today around 8 a.m. to begin the massive task of removing the nearly 70-year-old marquee.

That portion of Main Street, between Stevens and Locust streets, will be closed for about an hour around noon.

Once removed, the sign will be transported to the company’s warehouse in Ohio where it will be restored to its original condition, said Raven Yates, director of the State Theatre Foundation, the nonprofit group overseeing the multimillion-dollar theater restoration project.

“They are the premier neon sign marquee restorers in the country,” she said of Wagner.

The neon edging will be colored in yellow, green and red, Yates said, just like it once was.

According to the company’s Web site, the Wagner Electric Sign Company was founded in 1954 and has worked on many custom marquees, including the Fox Theatre in Oakland, Calif., and the State Theatre of Cleveland, Ohio.

Yates said the restored marquee would likely be hung back up prior to completion of the inside work.

“It needs it more than anything else because that’s what everybody look at every day,” she said.

The State Theatre rehab project is expected to begin in the spring with a planned opening as a cultural arts center in the fall of 2009. The foundation has already raised more than $4 million toward the project cost of $8 million.

Allison Brophy Champion can be reached at 825-0771 ext. 101 or abrophy@ starexponent.com.

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