Don’t You Know About The Byrd?

Well everybody knows that The Byrd is the word! In case you don’t know about The Byrd, it’s a beautiful historic theater in Richmond, Virginia that was built in 1928. Even today you can listen to the Wurlitzer Organ played just as it has been for over 80 years. They also show movies and for $1.99 per ticket you can find yourself sitting in one of their red velvet seats admiring the beautiful building from the inside. We wanted to stop by and get a picture of the theater from the outside, not having any idea just how cool the inside was. They had a 9:30 movie that was about to start but we were too tired to go so we just asked the girl collecting tickets at the door if we could take a look inside, and she was glad to let us in. We took about 10 steps into the theater, looked around, looked at each other and walked back out to the ticket booth to get tickets for the movie. The theater was so grand, it’s hard to believe it’s now used to play movies, and for $2! Larry keeps laughing at me because I take too long to take pictures and end up missing whatever it is I'm taking a picture of.  So when we walked out to take a picture of the iconic sign and JUST as I lift my camera up to take the picture, the light up "D" in BYRD goes off! I really couldn't believe it. We went back in the morning to see if we could get inside to get some pictures but unfortunately they don’t open until the afternoon.