Thanks Zads07... and back atcha Gnome....

FYI... the 12 story building housing the Fillmore is known as the Francis Palms Building. So when the theatre opened up in 1925, the C. Howard Crane designed 3,000 seat theatre was called the State, then changed in 1937 to be the Palms-State, then in 1949 it became the Palms, then in 1982 it became the State once again, and in 2007 it became the Fillmore!

This years Preservation Detroit Annual Downtown Theatre Tours [[the most attended and successful of all their tours) will take place on August 4, and even though the Fillmore will be closed for renovations.... the tour will go on. We may be supplying hard hats to visitors!

I hope attendees will get a chance to see "before and after" parts of the auditorium restoration!