I saw movies here all the time when I was a kid. It was close to the Beckley Junior High School down the street (now closed and turned into something else). We used to walk here after school and see movies. I remember vividly seeing GREASE, which always had lines around the block, the FRIDAY THE 13th movies, PSYCHO II, etc. It was always busy back then. I remember the wallpaper, which was never changed, which was drawings of various early movie stars like Theda Bara and Rudolph Valentino. Many memories.
I grew up in Beckley when this theater was still operating. We moved there in 1977 and the first movie I saw here was STAR WARS. Even then it was a decrepit theater falling apart. We used to joke about what bad shape it was in. I wish I had paid more attention to the details so I could have appreciated more about what it must have been like in its heyday. In the early 80s it showed a lot of horror films, which I always saw. The last thing I saw here was in 1982 when it was running a double feature of AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN and FLASHDANCE. I paid once and stayed all day, sitting through both films a couple of times. That’s a fond memory. It was always poorly attended in those last days. Too bad.
I saw movies here all the time when I was a kid. It was close to the Beckley Junior High School down the street (now closed and turned into something else). We used to walk here after school and see movies. I remember vividly seeing GREASE, which always had lines around the block, the FRIDAY THE 13th movies, PSYCHO II, etc. It was always busy back then. I remember the wallpaper, which was never changed, which was drawings of various early movie stars like Theda Bara and Rudolph Valentino. Many memories.
I came here in the early 80s and saw a double feature of FLASHDANCE and FOOTLOOSE.
I grew up in Beckley when this theater was still operating. We moved there in 1977 and the first movie I saw here was STAR WARS. Even then it was a decrepit theater falling apart. We used to joke about what bad shape it was in. I wish I had paid more attention to the details so I could have appreciated more about what it must have been like in its heyday. In the early 80s it showed a lot of horror films, which I always saw. The last thing I saw here was in 1982 when it was running a double feature of AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN and FLASHDANCE. I paid once and stayed all day, sitting through both films a couple of times. That’s a fond memory. It was always poorly attended in those last days. Too bad.