NORFOLK, Va. — A gleaming, hand-painted bronze sign reading “Veni Vidi Vici” hangs above a wall of stained paint cans, dividing a vast work floor from a second-story mezzanine.
The work floor is 100 feet by 100 and contains band saws, table saws and steel saws, and piles of burned-out theater lights. Elvis once sang to Norfolk sailors here.
The old stage is gone. The work floor is overlooked by the original wooden, stadium-style seats in the wraparound mezzanine, seats that now stay folded, collecting dust.
