I visited the theatre, today. It is for rent and looks still like a movie theatre. It appears to have been rented out awhile back as an entertainment complex called my brother’s keeper. That’s the current status you requested.
I grew up down the street form the old East Point theater. My parents still own a house on Jefferson Ave. The old address of the theater appears to be correct 116 Jefferson because we still have an old address of 707 that is barely visable on top of the porch. The theater burned as well as the surrounding buildings in the late 1980’s, probably around 1988. They demolished the old Russell High School across the street to make way for Tri-Cities High school and at the same time and closed the road that connected Jefferson ave. with main St. The whole block was then leveled except one house that is a now a daycare center and Byran Park. Now it is a baseball and softball field with extra parking for the High School. It was a childhood dream to restore that theater, but It will not happen. I found an old picture but the site doesn’t allow pictures because of needed updates I will post one when the problem is fixed.
Here is a link to see what the east point theater looked like:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/t/o/tomvason/Theatre.jpg
I visited the theatre, today. It is for rent and looks still like a movie theatre. It appears to have been rented out awhile back as an entertainment complex called my brother’s keeper. That’s the current status you requested.
I grew up down the street form the old East Point theater. My parents still own a house on Jefferson Ave. The old address of the theater appears to be correct 116 Jefferson because we still have an old address of 707 that is barely visable on top of the porch. The theater burned as well as the surrounding buildings in the late 1980’s, probably around 1988. They demolished the old Russell High School across the street to make way for Tri-Cities High school and at the same time and closed the road that connected Jefferson ave. with main St. The whole block was then leveled except one house that is a now a daycare center and Byran Park. Now it is a baseball and softball field with extra parking for the High School. It was a childhood dream to restore that theater, but It will not happen. I found an old picture but the site doesn’t allow pictures because of needed updates I will post one when the problem is fixed.