THIS HALLOWEEN NIGHT marks the demise of the historic Rendezvous restaurant and bar, and of its small but sumptuous Jewel Box Theater.

We were there Friday for a lovely show of dissonant art-noise starring horn meistro Wally Shoup and a group calling itself Gidrah. While they played, beautiful scenes from Toho Studios monster movies played on the Jewel Box’s silver screen.

The Rendezvous first opened in the ’20s, as an adjunct to a company in the same building that outfitted the interiors of movie theaters. (Second Avenue was Seattle’s “Film Row,” where the big studios had their regional distribution offices and warehouses). The Jewel Box inside the Rendezvous was both a showcase for the theater-building company’s wares and a screening room where theater operators would preview new films.

In recent years the Jewel Box has hosted art-film screenings, music-video shootings, fringe-theater shows, literary readings, band gigs of all imaginable types, and AA meetings.

The Rendezvous bar, meanwhile, became one of greater downtown’s last refuges for old-timers and blue-collar drinkers. The recently broken-up local band Dodi was named after the joint’s tuff-but-lovable, beehive-coiffed, longtime barmaid.

Former OK Hotel mastermind Steve Freeborn is taking over the place and promises to reopen it early next year, restored and brought up to code. He also plans some of the OK’s old brand of art exhibitions and progressive performance bookings at the new Rendezvous.

But it just won’t be the same.