In March 2013 the final buzzer sounded in the hallowed Bangor Auditorium. The facility that had played host to tens of thousands of players and the seats that held nearly 2.5 million high school basketball fans were empty as way was made for the opening of the Cross Insurance Center.

Before the historic facility came down, volunteers from Penobscot Job Corps and United Technologies Center carefully removed more than 300 pairs of seats. Those seats will be available for purchase at the Bass Park complex on Friday, June 21 between 1 and 6 p.m. and Saturday, June 22 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. All proceeds from the sale will benefit the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame.

“This has been a real community effort to salvage these pieces of history,” said Steve Pound, one of the MBHOF Incorporators and an organizer of the seat removal and sale. “Both Penobscot Job Corps and United Technology Center brought student volunteers to the building to help remove the seats and move them to the storage location. I’m sure it was a labor of love for many of them to serve their community.”

The seats will be sold in pairs at a cost of $25 per pair and will need to be paid for on site, using cash or check only the days of the sale. Seats must also be removed from the site when purchased.

“The only way to remove them, given how they were installed, was to bring them out in pairs,” Pound said.

Seats will be available on a first come, first serve basis and requests for specific seat numbers cannot be accommodated. Seat pairs will need to be mounted to a base or wall after purchase.

For more information on the sale of auditorium seats visit www.mainebasketballhalloffame.com/seatsale or contact Jen Brooks, jbrooks@emdc.org, 207-942-6389.