I loved the Coral. Saw many films there as a kid and teenager. It didn’t look like much from the outside, but I recall a lobby with a red leather couch and chairs and a fireplace, an attached courtyard/garden where you could walk around while waiting for the movie to start, and huge murals of Polynesian scenes (people building canoes, etc.) painted on the interior side walls of the auditorium. It was a great building, so of course it had to go. The strip mall that replaced it is half empty.
If anyone has interior photos of the Coral, I’d love to see them.
Studio might not have been one of the great theaters, but it was popular in the area. There were days when kids could get in for (I think) the “price” of six Pepsi bottle caps. I don’t know how that worked for the theater in the financial sense, but for the blue collar communities the theater served, the price was very right.
Based on the above photo, Studio Cinema was located on the right…about where the Sears Auto Center sits now. To the left was an A&P grocery, and to the left of that was a Community Discount Store. Starlight Drive-In was on the same property behind them, to the south.
I loved the Coral. Saw many films there as a kid and teenager. It didn’t look like much from the outside, but I recall a lobby with a red leather couch and chairs and a fireplace, an attached courtyard/garden where you could walk around while waiting for the movie to start, and huge murals of Polynesian scenes (people building canoes, etc.) painted on the interior side walls of the auditorium. It was a great building, so of course it had to go. The strip mall that replaced it is half empty.
If anyone has interior photos of the Coral, I’d love to see them.
Studio might not have been one of the great theaters, but it was popular in the area. There were days when kids could get in for (I think) the “price” of six Pepsi bottle caps. I don’t know how that worked for the theater in the financial sense, but for the blue collar communities the theater served, the price was very right.
Based on the above photo, Studio Cinema was located on the right…about where the Sears Auto Center sits now. To the left was an A&P grocery, and to the left of that was a Community Discount Store. Starlight Drive-In was on the same property behind them, to the south.