Grandview Theater and Drafthouse

The Grandview Theater & Drafthouse website is https://www.grandviewtheater.com. The “About” tab on their website says they now “offer two movie screens”.

A interview with the Grandviews new management to Columbus Monthly confirms 150 seats.

Name is misspelled in this listing. They changed Theatre to Theater. Not sure why, since it was Theatre for 90 years.

Were the other seats replaced by tables or other furniture?

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/12/28/grandview-theatre-has-closed.html

Plans to reopen in late March with new management.

As an aside, we have kept one 35mm projector in place, and mothballed the other in the booth. Just in case.

David Nedrow
Grandview Theatre

Actually, as it turned out, we weren’t able to restore the chairs that were here when we took over. They were loungers, not rockers. IE, fixed seat, reclining back.

The seats and backs could have been redone, but the standards and hinging had gone so long without maintenance, or cleaning, that a combination of rust (from roof leaks that were never reported to the land lady) and acid, from spilled soda, had eaten through much of the metal. In some cases, you could literally push hard with a thumb and dent the metal. Unfortunately, the seats and back required this particular standard, so without the metal, the upholstered parts were worthless.

The high school auditorium seats in the middle are in generally good shape, though there are a few “blah HEARTS blah"s scratched in the backs. The plan is to replace these sometime next year, with the same seats we’ve put in on the sides. When we do replace them, the center section will be completely removed and put back in on a radius. The new side seats are already angled toward the screen.

‘not moveable chairs’ on both sides. the seats in the middle came from a high school. i read that they are trying to raise money to restore the rockers that were in the drexel grandview.

fixed as in ‘not broken’ or as in ‘not moveable chairs’ ?

Not sure on the style. We’ll be going with modern doors, but hopefully something either similar (3 pane) or stylized. Anyway we cut it, it’s a minimum of $7,000, so not a cheap fix. The existing doors don’t really go with anything in the interior, and we really need secure, energy efficient doors with panic hardware.

Heh. The “white” on the doors is primer, to slow the rotting as much as possible. Huge chunks of wood are falling off now. We’re planning on putting in new doors for better security and safety.

In which case, the Status should be changed to “Open” and the description appropriately revised.