koolmotor

Wow, I am clearly out of my league on this badass board. Thanks for letting me off light...Guess I'll cease and desist before some other anonymous board spook really decides to lower my self esteem. Is that Jay Gatsby you're channeling, by the way?

Actually it was briefly in the 1970s.

Haven't posted on TD in quite some time, so please let know if this thread is in the wrong place...I'm wondering whether anybody here ever spent much time at the Varsity Theatre back in the eighties when it was an art cinema house. My son is a mass comm student at LSU, and I suggested he pitch his editor (Legacy student magazine) an idea for a story on the place before it was a live music venue. His editor bit, and since I think I remember folks posting stuff here about old Baton Rouge landmarks and such, I thought I'd see if anybody might have a memory or two worth sharing for his story. My wife and I spent a lot of time at the Varsity, and have plenty of fodder for him, but, alas, his editor specified that he can not interview anybody he knows. Any old art/foreign film buffs out there who used to haunt the Varsity?