The 7th maze of the year features the Alabama Theatre Sign in Birmingham, Alabama. This is our third sign maze of the year. The maze construction is standard, I would also say this is the easiest of our mazes so far this year. After creating this sign (before adding the maze) I realized that the “open” space around the letters meant creating an easy maze or making very narrow pathways and a much harder maze. The band of lights that surround the sign also meant I needed to use an internal start and goal.

Some information about the Alabama Theatre

Originally opened the day after Christmas in 1927 as a movie theater, this historic theater was added to Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on February 15th, 1977. It includes a theater pipe organ nicknamed “Big Bertha” with 32 sets of pipes. They seem to have a busy schedule that you can find on their official website here.

This 7 minute video shows a nice interview with Cecil Whitmire and features Big Bertha !

Here is a photo of the sign before we get to the mazes.

The Mazes:

I made 2 versions of the maze. First the color version:

And then I re-colored the maze into greyscale. When I looked at the sign I kept thinking about old black and white movies and how it would look in them.

I hope you enjoy the mazes. You can find downloads of the maze at the mazes permanent home.

Coming next week:

A special maze for the President’s Day holiday in the United States.