Santa Barbara has “three” historic movie theatres. In chatting with someone who seemed to know, they thought it was achieved through a combination of a redevelopment agency, plus private donations. It’s hard to understand how “we”, having been blessed with a wonderful old theatre, an original Clifford Balch no less, architect of that time period extraordinaire, and that we would even THINK about letting a developer bulldoze it to cash-out at the expense of our whole community. Go figure.
Santa Barbara has “three” historic movie theatres. In chatting with someone who seemed to know, they thought it was achieved through a combination of a redevelopment agency, plus private donations. It’s hard to understand how “we”, having been blessed with a wonderful old theatre, an original Clifford Balch no less, architect of that time period extraordinaire, and that we would even THINK about letting a developer bulldoze it to cash-out at the expense of our whole community. Go figure.