Monday's walk included the alley between E. 12th and E. 13th Avenues, immediately west of Knight. A couple of addresses in, a garage with a section of carpet pulled from it, unfurled, and two men, one in his late-60s, the other way older, conferring.
The carpet is from the lobby of Granville's Capitol Theatre. Not the Capitol 6 (built in 1973), but the single screen theatre that preceded it. The older man worked on the demo of the first Capitol and had stored the carpet in his garage all this time; the other showed me the seams and told me how he was going to cut them, get three runners for the hallways of his house.
Below is a part of the rug that was protected from the elements during its installation life, but also its life in storage. So pretty. Like what you see in Julie Christie's eye at the end of McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971), which may or may not have been screened at the Capitol.
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