From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:03:08 GMT
Cc: puppetlife-AT-sbcglobal.net
Subject: [Puptcrit] Update on Bob Baker Marionette Theater survival efforts


Lauren Everett has worked hard to gain the status of a "Los Angeles Cultural Monument" for the Bob Baker Marionette Theater which was facing foreclosure in early December 2008 in Los Angeles as reported in the New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.  Bob's theater is the longest running puppet theater in Los Angeles, more than doubling the record previously set by Turnabout Theatre. A nomination for this status takes place Thursday, February 5th. See below.


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 here's the email I got - if you click on "Nomination application"? you get the whole 34 pages of text and pictures of the proposal.
later,
xox
Christine


 


 

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From: Shawn Sites <shawnsites-AT-earthlink.net>
To: Christine Papalexis <CPapalexis-AT-aol.com>
Sent: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 3:40 pm
Subject: [Fwd: Of monuments and marionettes]












  
  
  

know I'm a few steps behind on all this, but glad to hear this good
news!

shawn



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What seemed like the imminent closure of the Bob Baker
Marionette Theater only a few weeks ago now seems less likely.
First, Curbed
LA reported last week that the puppet theater, one of the nation's
oldest, just south of Echo Park was no longer for sale and had drawn a
substantial amount of donations and other financial support. Now, the
boxy, 56-year-old building that houses the theater on First Street has
been nominated as a Los Angeles Cultural
Historic Monument. The nomination
application will receive its first review before the city's
Cultural Heritage Commission on Thursday.



The application was completed by Silver Lake resident Lauren Everett,
one of the many volunteers who have surfaced to help Baker since his
theater's financial plight and possible foreclosure became known late
last year.



Declaring the theater a monument would serve "as one more safeguard
against the place being demolished" in case Baker lost the property,
said Everett, an administrative assistant. "He doesn't want it
demolished. He wants to keep running it."



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