Another note: The last time I saw this place, it was 2004, and I had walked up to the former box office to peer through the window and reminisce a little. I was thinking about all the bad movies I had paid to see there when a crazed movement caught my eye from inside a shelf within the box office. It was a large cat which appeared to be in heat… That’s when I knew that there was life after death.
I had the chance to walk around the old Eastlake theater space around 2000-2003 (I can’t exactly remember when). Anyway, all three of the theater rooms were still there at the time. The first one (the one closest to the top of the stairs) had been cleaned up and totally re-done (like the lobby and stairs) into a contemporary presentation space for corporate activities/events, though now a ‘presentation room’, it kept true with the old theater layout, with rows of descending seats facing a large screen in front. The other two theaters were still the same as they were when the mall closed (pretty dark and empty). They looked destroyed though, like most wasted structures. The ceiling looked like it been knocked in, wires and lighting fixtures dangled from above and all kinds of junk and machinery laid around the isles -which made the red seats seem very distinguished. I’m sure by now, that they have both been worked into something else, maybe as office spaces or even as two other large presentation rooms.
Another note: The last time I saw this place, it was 2004, and I had walked up to the former box office to peer through the window and reminisce a little. I was thinking about all the bad movies I had paid to see there when a crazed movement caught my eye from inside a shelf within the box office. It was a large cat which appeared to be in heat… That’s when I knew that there was life after death.
I got my bicycle stolen here.
I had the chance to walk around the old Eastlake theater space around 2000-2003 (I can’t exactly remember when). Anyway, all three of the theater rooms were still there at the time. The first one (the one closest to the top of the stairs) had been cleaned up and totally re-done (like the lobby and stairs) into a contemporary presentation space for corporate activities/events, though now a ‘presentation room’, it kept true with the old theater layout, with rows of descending seats facing a large screen in front. The other two theaters were still the same as they were when the mall closed (pretty dark and empty). They looked destroyed though, like most wasted structures. The ceiling looked like it been knocked in, wires and lighting fixtures dangled from above and all kinds of junk and machinery laid around the isles -which made the red seats seem very distinguished. I’m sure by now, that they have both been worked into something else, maybe as office spaces or even as two other large presentation rooms.