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Arcade to open with Mickey Gilley
Published Saturday, March 8, 2008
FERRIDAY — After eight months of construction, the new Arcade Theater will open in Ferriday Wednesday.
Secretary of State Jay Dardenne will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Arcade, which is located on Louisiana Avenue next to the Delta Music Museum.
“The building is beautiful, both inside and out,” Delta Music Museum Director Judith Bingham said. “We are trying to get it spit-shine clean for Wednesday.”
Country musician and Ferriday native Mickey Gilley will be an honored guest at the event, Bingham said.
The Arcade is something that holds a lot of cultural significance for Ferriday and the Concordia Parish and Adams County areas, Jacques Berry with the secretary of state’s office said.
“We are very pleased to be able to reopen it and have it so expertly restored,” he said.
The Arcade has been fitted with state-of-the-art technology, Berry said.
“After the ribbon-cutting and once they start having events there, I think the citizens are really going to enjoy having this facility in the area,” Berry said.
The original Arcade Theater was built in 1926, and was demolished in January 2007. It was closed as a theater in the late 1970s, and was last used as a pawnshop.
The rebuilt Arcade is meant to be a replica of the original building, and will serve as an extension of the Delta Music Museum.
Funding for the project came from the secretary of state’s office.
The theater will be officially dedicated at the Delta Music Festival in April.
Following the ceremony Wednesday, a reception will follow from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., and at 7 p.m. Easy Eddie and the Party Rockers will perform at the newly opened theater. Gilley will perform two songs with the group.
Tickets to the performance will be $10, and are available at the Delta Music Museum.
Comments
Posted by southernbelle (anonymous) on March 9, 2008 at 4:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Another fun thing for all of us in the Miss-Lou !
Posted by JDR (anonymous) on March 9, 2008 at 5:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)
sweet i can't wait to go....oh wait its in ferriday nevermind.
Posted by tinstar (anonymous) on March 9, 2008 at 5:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Ferriday has a new mayor JDR., show some support. Ferriday is on its way back up.
Posted by bayougranny (anonymous) on March 9, 2008 at 12:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I already have my ticket!!!
Posted by destiny (anonymous) on March 9, 2008 at 12:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Fun times again for Ferriday. Come on out and support your new mayor, let him know you are behind him 100% and he will get the ball rolling to a better Ferriday. Can't wait to see the improvements.
Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on March 9, 2008 at 12:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh my, I haven't seen Mickey since Urban Cowboy. Hoorah for Ferriday!
Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on March 9, 2008 at 3:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
way to go Ferriday. If you would like some repeat visitors, just ask your policemen to back off of the out-of-town plates that are heading over to see it, please!!!!!!
Posted by kd (anonymous) on March 10, 2008 at 12:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow! Mickey Gilley! Hold me back!
That was extreme sarcasm in case you didn't know! Seriously, I didn't know that dude was even still alive!
Just what we need, another attraction for the oldie olsens of the Miss Lou! Flame me if you want, but for the millionth time, WHAT ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION????
Posted by destiny (anonymous) on March 10, 2008 at 7:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
AWW!! come-on kd, try it you might like it. It's for a museum opening. What are museums for??? You got it.....OLD RELICS. Back in the day though he had a floor stompin' beat. Between him and Jerry Lee they kept you rockin'.
Posted by vanluna (anonymous) on March 11, 2008 at 3:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm in the younger generation and I'll be there to show my support. KD what a wonderful idea, how about trying to get some entertainment to come here for the younger generation! I'll be glad to work with you to get something started, just let me know what I need to do. Better Than Ezra at the balloon races were AWESOME! They are big with the younger generation. BTW KD I am not being sarcastic, I am serious. If you want it bad enough maybe you should make it happen.
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