He was an illustrious son of Ancona, known by everyone, young and old, as “the director”, due to the role he held, for a lifetime, at the former Metropolitan cinema. A structure that he felt was imprinted on his skin, in his memories and in his heart. Euro Baldoni, a historic figure in the city, passed away yesterday at the age of 95. His family made the announcement, full of pain. Euro, after a brief period working as an electrician in his uncle Bruno Ippoliti’s shop, close to the Second World War, when still a boy, entered the Metropolitan as a booth operator, what we could define as the “projectionist” of modern times. The Theater of the Muses did not exist then. Therefore the former cinema, which today houses the Carlino headquarters, was a point of reference for the community. Euro was always there, in that second home of his. He proudly claimed when, during the 1972 earthquake, ‘Terry’, the Metropolitan was the only business in the heart of downtown to remain open amid a desert of lowered shutters. Or again when, in the 1955 attack on the Metropolitan in which two women died, he assisted the police in their investigations. In short, he was a pillar of the social fabric of Ancona. A city that clung to the void of his wife Madera, his daughters Gloria and Cristiana and all his relatives. The last farewell on Monday, at 3pm, in the morgue of the Torrette hospital.
Giacomo Giampieri
