The lobby animal stencils are now complete! EverGreene took off for a short time and just finished a few jobs including the stencils. There are four different animals painted on the walls of the 7th Street Theatre. Here's the only information we've found regarding their background -- The Hoquiam American, July 5, 1928: Bordering the upper walls of the lobby are stenciled likeness of the fabled ornythorinkus, vamupus cat and sidehill gouger, conceived by modern man as having once populated the forests and mountains of the Olympic Peninsula.

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Ceiling & Auditorium Restoration Project -

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Byron from EverGreene is creating the clouds. One thing we have discovered since this project began is that the 'sky' ceiling in the 7th Street is a much lighter shade of blue than most other atmospheric theatres. Also, the cloud formation is unusual. The clouds and sky are modeled after the sky at dusk here on the Harbor. Check it out next time. The clouds line the horizon and the sky above is one color.

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Here is Alan from EverGreene painting the sky in the window on the left side of the auditorium.

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This is Nick from EverGreene who has been working on the ceiling for several weeks. He says he doesn't need to go to the gym.

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Top: Amanda from EverGreene is prepping the walls

Center: Mike and Nick from EverGreene are prepping the aisle walls (where the brown covering used to be).

Bottom: Berg Scaffolding has the first stage set up.

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Jeff Greene of EverGreene Architectural Arts spent the day with some of the 7th Street volunteers on Sunday. Jeff was hired by the theatre to perform a survey of the theatre's historic finishes, provide input on preservaton and restoration of the historic murals discovered in November, and answer some questions about cleaning and restoration by volunteers. It was a wonderfully informative day. Jeff discovered that the front of the marquee (see picture) was created using a technique called scraffito, which is done by layering tinted plaster, and scraping away the top layer to expose the differently colored layer beneath. He found that one of the original colors was an intense blue. Unfortunately, we could not find a ladder truck to lift him up to the front wall niches to take samples.

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