Although the theater was opened as the Adonis with a fresh coat of blue paint for its “Greek” interior, the building seemed to receive almost no maintenance after that. Seats were never repaired when they broke. Broken seaats were simply removed, leaving unsightly gaps which grew to large voids over the years. They had only one working projector and when they needed to change reels, they projected a disk of colored oils on screen which oozed around as the disk was rotated. The oils eventually bleached out and dried over the years but they kept on using it until they switched to video projection towards the very end. The building became badly run down and I began to think that the city would shut it down, although that never happened. Notwithstanding the actions by Worldwide Plaza and Mr. Zeckendorf, the fate of the Adonis was probably sealed by a sustained lack of maintenance.
Although the theater was opened as the Adonis with a fresh coat of blue paint for its “Greek” interior, the building seemed to receive almost no maintenance after that. Seats were never repaired when they broke. Broken seaats were simply removed, leaving unsightly gaps which grew to large voids over the years. They had only one working projector and when they needed to change reels, they projected a disk of colored oils on screen which oozed around as the disk was rotated. The oils eventually bleached out and dried over the years but they kept on using it until they switched to video projection towards the very end. The building became badly run down and I began to think that the city would shut it down, although that never happened. Notwithstanding the actions by Worldwide Plaza and Mr. Zeckendorf, the fate of the Adonis was probably sealed by a sustained lack of maintenance.