club room

Built in 1936 as a reading room — a familiar hallmark of Christian Science, one of hundreds recognizable on Main Streets around the country — it has served as a salesroom for church publications, a club room for Scientists and an open door for idle pedestrians looking for respite from the street.

Joined by a few hundred fans at the Alger Family Club Room at Gesa Field, the team celebrated its third consecutive berth to the Big Dance.

The club room, up a flight of stairs from the lobby, is an oasis of calm where main courses average $34 — a bargain given the downtown location and the finesse on the plate.

Movies are their business, and the backdrop to their relationship, which blooms among the popcorn and candy and takes flight in the Empire’s abandoned upstairs club room, a once-glorious space now serving as a pigeon roost.

They remodeled their club room for $35,000, for example.