Alan Geoffre Bates

The thing I keep reading over and over is how much Alan and Terra loved the Alabama Theatre. People that say that, and that have worked there, have something in common that will never go away. That wonderful old building ties people together in a way I've never seen before or since.

I met Alan in 1995. I had just moved back to Birmingham because my grandfather was dying; he would die the day before I started working at the Alabama. I was a wreck.

Alan was cool, older...