56 Comments Posted by Mathue

It looks so frigid, barren and lonesome. The low golden sun rays trying to being warmth. Heaven help the people that called this home ;/

The door probably is so swollen that it sticks open today. I doubt that the hinges are in very good condition either.

WOW, that's really something!

This places really looks to be in better condition than is typical, I wonder why?

Lynne, I'm so glad you hang around here. It gives us insight to so many practices that most of us have no clue about. I always look for your posts.

It's for coal most likely, I would be surprised if it was still in use by the time this place closed though.

There should be a roof around that 'jog'. Interesting.

The tar roof on this place must have been in really poor condition before final closure.

Actually, it's not a valve. It's a crank to open the windows. It's merely a gearbox, the shaft going up rotates either another gearbox or an exposed worm gear to open/close the windows.

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Yep! Fortunate that the roof is held up with steel trusses. If they had been wood there likely would be FAR larger holes than what we see currently.

Wow, you're not kidding Lynne!

Odds are that this place wasn't in very good condition even before it closed. Heck, one of the local malls here built between 1981-83 has leaks in the roof, one so bad the drywall has peeled off the ceiling around the leak. And this is a high end California mall with a new roof applied late last year! Odds are the roof on this theater was already leaking even before this place closed.

Nice green glow, though it'd drive my allergies nuts to be in there :/

I'm with Bill, this place seems to have done remarkably well. I'm of the mind that although it was last used almost 30 years ago that it must have gotten maintained afterwards for several years.