Dirty Jack's

I didn’t take the picture of Dirty Jack’s Theater that appears at the top of this blog. I found it on the Internet several years ago and copied it to my local drive. Whoever took the picture perfectly captured Dirty Jack’s Theater. It is evidently a long exposure, with the brake lights of cars moving north along Cache Street creating a red horizontal slash. The long exposure obliterates the name on the marquee, and I don’t know what year this photo was taken. I am willing to bet it was 1976 or ’79 because the image is just so perfectly parallel to my memories of the place. The structure to the left of the theater is the entrance to the Chuck Wagon Restaurant that provided the bland meals the actors survived upon. Mikey was responsible for all those light bulbs, replacing any that burned out. Sean practiced his trumpet daily in a small room behind the third window from the left on the second floor. Prudence counted money from ticket sales in the room behind the window nearest the marque