When my father made the comment on the phone (see below post), one of the clips he saw was The Paramount Theater (1928), where I made my performing debut in 1994. Here's a picture from that show. The mark is about where my dad thought (from seeing it on TV) the water level was at - about 3 feet from the marquis.It's a guess. WAIT! NPR update: 5:18 CST - The edge of where the Cedar River typically is situated has now stretched one and a half miles into the city limits. Also, the flooding now covers 400 blocks instead of the 100 I mentioned yesterday.
Actually, my dear Jeffrey James, from what I can tell, you would likely be under water and the mucky fish-filled stinky filth that we're calling water would be lapping just under the marquee. It's a fucking surreal mess here.
ReplyDeleteMy God. Sounds dramatic. But I'm sure that if I were there to see it all...don't know that I want to see it, actually. I wish I could help - I feel helpless. TCR, The Paramount - how can this be. Were you able to save anything from the 1st floor of the theater??? Simply mindboggling. I assume the TCR Shop is under as well. All these places d.t. are flashing in my head - and to think I was just there. Fuck.
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