In 1972, when I was nine years old, my family moved to a house located one block from this abandoned movie theater. The site was all overgrown with weeds but the screen was still standing, and my brothers and I would play there for hours and go “exploring”. We went inside the screen structure, which was a tall narrow building. It was really spooky and dusty, and there were rats running around. Inside there was a ladder where you would climb up to a catwalk, and along the catwalk were several shelves with boxes where all the marquee letters were still stored. There was a door at the end of the catwalk where you could walk out onto the awning and place the letters on the marquee. We ended up moving across town in 1973, but I think the abandoned structure stood for several more years.
In 1972, when I was nine years old, my family moved to a house located one block from this abandoned movie theater. The site was all overgrown with weeds but the screen was still standing, and my brothers and I would play there for hours and go “exploring”. We went inside the screen structure, which was a tall narrow building. It was really spooky and dusty, and there were rats running around. Inside there was a ladder where you would climb up to a catwalk, and along the catwalk were several shelves with boxes where all the marquee letters were still stored. There was a door at the end of the catwalk where you could walk out onto the awning and place the letters on the marquee. We ended up moving across town in 1973, but I think the abandoned structure stood for several more years.