JOURNAL
August 13, 2026
The marquee letters that never came back after 1974
The original marquee held four lines of copy. When the house reopened in 2013, only three channels’ worth of usable letter track survived intact behind the restored fascia — the fourth line’s mounting rail had corroded through. Rather than fabricate a replacement rail to a guess, we kept three lines, at the original 22-characters-per-line channel width. The marquee generator elsewhere on this site uses exactly that constraint, not a rounder, easier number.