There are a TON of ghost stories about this place. Everybody I ever knew who worked at this place (mostly in the early to mid 80’s, when it was mostly showing movies) had a story to tell. I remember when they started showing movies again in the 70’s – I must have been 8ish – the place was really run-down and spooky and you could run around anywhere – the basement pool with the creepy egyptian style murals (or did I just imagine that? Does anyone else remember that?), dark corridors leading to various balcony levels, including the concrete seats in the 3rd balcony that seemed so high you could hardly see the screen and box seats that seemed to be hidden from below… it was great.
There are a TON of ghost stories about this place. Everybody I ever knew who worked at this place (mostly in the early to mid 80’s, when it was mostly showing movies) had a story to tell. I remember when they started showing movies again in the 70’s – I must have been 8ish – the place was really run-down and spooky and you could run around anywhere – the basement pool with the creepy egyptian style murals (or did I just imagine that? Does anyone else remember that?), dark corridors leading to various balcony levels, including the concrete seats in the 3rd balcony that seemed so high you could hardly see the screen and box seats that seemed to be hidden from below… it was great.