The City of Alma owns the recently renovated Bacon Theatre. It’s a performance space and shows movies on weekends. It was established by Nathan Cohen, C. D. Greenway, J. J. Jones, A. P. Meeks, Sr., and Floyd Ramsey. Laurinda Murphy Norris shared this memory: I know that it was a theater when I was a kid in the late 50s/early 60s. Obviously, the flat top space was addition. Julian Rigby ran the theater when I was young. I remember seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey, Posiedoen Adventure, and Love Story, among others there as a teen. When I was young, if you were under 12 you got in for a cheaper price of 50 cents. I could get popcorn, a drink, and movie admission for a dollar. When I was really young, they sent a cardstock calendar out each month with the movies which would be playing. Often the paper was colored. Teachers would get the unused calendars and use the back for art paper for students. My mother was a teacher and I still have a picture I drew on the back of a theater calendar when I was a preschooler. I haven’t been since the restoration, but am glad it was done.