Opening the Fox Theater Pomona was an audacious, ostentatious, expensive proposition—both times. Its original grand opening on April 24, 1931, took place in the midst of the Great Depression and cost a then-exorbitant $300,000. And funnily—or terrifyingly—enough, the theater’s recent grand reopening happened just two months ago, during our current Great Recession. The restoration took a year and a half and cost $10 million. Was it worth it? Brothers and Pomona locals Ed and J