For One Dollar: How Schenectady Saved Proctors From the Wrecking Ball

Seized for back taxes and marked for demolition, Proctors was saved for a single dollar in 1979 — and turns 100 this December. From Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington to Mariah Carey’s 1993 NBC special, the century-long story of Schenectady’s vaudeville palace.