Alas, it's gone now but we spent many hours there when we were kids. Gladys and Lee owned the theater. Lee ran the projectors and Gladys sold the tickets and the popcorn. Once in a while Lee would let me come up into the projection booth and watch him work. That was, almost, like being back stage at Radio City Music Hall when I was a kid.
That narrow window, above the marquee, and a fan, was the only ventilation for the projection booth. No air conditioning in those days and those arc lamps on the old projectors threw out a ton of heat. It was pure torture spending two hours up there, while the show was playing, and I loved every minute of it!
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