I drove by the old Forum Theater last weekend with my girlfriend. We were high school sweethearts in the mid 70’s and The Forum was a place we remember going together. It was a very small theater but has a lot of history for those of us growing up in the days when it was operating. (She recently found a ticket stub she had saved from when we went there to see “Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother” in 1975.) Anyway, The Forum building is still there, sitting vacant and looking very forlorn. There is a chain link fence blocking access to the upper parking lot. The old lower lot is still visible on Google Earth but can’t be seen from the road. The Franklin County assessor’s website shows that the property was sold in July 2005, but nothing has been done with the property yet. It would be wonderful if it was to open as a theater again but I suppose that’s unlikely.
I drove by the old Forum Theater last weekend with my girlfriend. We were high school sweethearts in the mid 70’s and The Forum was a place we remember going together. It was a very small theater but has a lot of history for those of us growing up in the days when it was operating. (She recently found a ticket stub she had saved from when we went there to see “Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother” in 1975.) Anyway, The Forum building is still there, sitting vacant and looking very forlorn. There is a chain link fence blocking access to the upper parking lot. The old lower lot is still visible on Google Earth but can’t be seen from the road. The Franklin County assessor’s website shows that the property was sold in July 2005, but nothing has been done with the property yet. It would be wonderful if it was to open as a theater again but I suppose that’s unlikely.