Jorge and I played the role of lead driver on our trip from Vienna, Virginia to Atlanta with ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. It’s just a busy job that really just creates more work for us. We have to organize the trucks into a certain order that they need to get loaded and unloaded in. Usually the first trucks loaded are the wardrobe and scenery – both things that are easily packed and rolled onto a trailer at the end of the show. That’s followed by the sound or electrics – and all things that have to be dismantled before they can be loaded onto a trailer. When we reach our destination, the order is then reversed and the last out is the first in. So it’s the job of the lead driver to make sure the right trailer is at the loading dock at the right time. We also have to get on the radio and help the driver back the trailer into the loading dock and make sure they don’t hit anything with it in the process. So it was an all day job for us at Atlanta’s Fox Theater when we got there on Monday of this week.
From the wife of one of the other truck drivers, we learned an interesting theory about the Fox Theater. She said she wanted to go inside the theater but was afraid to because legend has it that the Fabulous Fox – as it is called – is haunted. We’ve been there many times and had never heard anything about this so I had to check it out. I, of course, do not believe in such things but I wondered who the supposed ghost was. Apparently there’s a story about back in the Civil War days some of the Confederate ammunition was stored in catacombs under the theater and the ghost is supposedly that of a soldier who walks the halls on guard duty. Then I learned the theater opened in 1929 so go figure. The timeline just doesn’t add up in my book. However there is an 80-year-old guy who really does live inside. He was responsible for overhauling the 4000 pipe organ many years ago and is credited for saving the theater from demolition when Bell Telephone Company wanted the property for a new office. As part of the renovation project, he built himself an apartment inside the theater and has been everything from the theater director to security to handyman over the years. Maybe he’s the guy people have heard roaming the building and just assumed it was a ghost?
We finished up in Atlanta and then had nothing to do for five days. We slowly meandered our way thru the back roads of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and finally Delaware this week. In the summer the shows can slow down and Clark supplements the shows with other loads. Tomorrow morning we’ll be picking up an Allied moving van here in Newark, Delaware and taking it a couple thousand miles to Phoenix, Arizona. It promises to be a hot cross-country trip. They had record temps of over 105 here in Delaware today. I’m wondering if it will be cooler in Phoenix when we get there?
From the wife of one of the other truck drivers, we learned an interesting theory about the Fox Theater. She said she wanted to go inside the theater but was afraid to because legend has it that the Fabulous Fox – as it is called – is haunted. We’ve been there many times and had never heard anything about this so I had to check it out. I, of course, do not believe in such things but I wondered who the supposed ghost was. Apparently there’s a story about back in the Civil War days some of the Confederate ammunition was stored in catacombs under the theater and the ghost is supposedly that of a soldier who walks the halls on guard duty. Then I learned the theater opened in 1929 so go figure. The timeline just doesn’t add up in my book. However there is an 80-year-old guy who really does live inside. He was responsible for overhauling the 4000 pipe organ many years ago and is credited for saving the theater from demolition when Bell Telephone Company wanted the property for a new office. As part of the renovation project, he built himself an apartment inside the theater and has been everything from the theater director to security to handyman over the years. Maybe he’s the guy people have heard roaming the building and just assumed it was a ghost?
We finished up in Atlanta and then had nothing to do for five days. We slowly meandered our way thru the back roads of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and finally Delaware this week. In the summer the shows can slow down and Clark supplements the shows with other loads. Tomorrow morning we’ll be picking up an Allied moving van here in Newark, Delaware and taking it a couple thousand miles to Phoenix, Arizona. It promises to be a hot cross-country trip. They had record temps of over 105 here in Delaware today. I’m wondering if it will be cooler in Phoenix when we get there?