Most of the pictures of late have been taken without men working. Today they return to our site (and our sight) as blogger moves in with hard hat on and the gracious guidance of the site manager. Inside the theater the men have put up dry wall between the theater proper and the passageway you read about in the last blog. At either end will be a spiral stair case that will lead to the cat walks. (Maybe when they are completed, blogger will muster enough courage, mount the steps and take photos from that vantage point, but don't hold her to it.) On the back wall above the elevated seating area, the metal wall frames have the various window frames for the control booth that will be behind them. The space there is about six feet to the lobby wall, so it will be a compact area. On the outside of the theater at the corner of the prop room, is one of the pipe connections for a downspout for roof drainage. You can see how the pipe goes into the ground thereunder connected to the storm drain.
Over at the annex, men work inside and on top. Note their apparel: it is very cold outside and in. On the roof, the men give final preparation to the bases of the HVAC units--the units will be placed next week--and begin the second set of layers of roofing. Under this scene and on the inside, men finish up all sorts of tasks before the drywall is put in place in the many walls. Currently, one can literally walk through the walls of the exercise room, the locker rooms, the referees' rooms, the first-aid room, and the hallways. Just below the ceiling are the many different kinds of pipes, reminiscent of the myriad kinds under ground. One can be sure that the former are more easily installed than the latter.
The men will welcome the weekend and richly deserve it, we trust. The site will stand, cold and less empty than one week ago. And so it goes on.
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