Exploring an Abandoned Movie Theater 

Love Steak ‘n Shake! Sucks all the ones around here closed….

We had “cash only” signs on all the doors, it said cash only on the letter boards that detailed the shows and times, we said it was cash only on our show time recording at the beginning and the end of it, and it said cash only in our newspaper ad. Guess what still happened?

There was definitely some scrapping going on there and it looked like some people were living in there at one time.

@@exploretheabandoned thanks for the update on this place young man 👍😎

Thanks for watching!

@@exploretheabandoned your welcome young man 👍😎

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Does it look the same as when this was filmed?

We couldn’t have done it without you 😂😂

There are closets on either side of this (at least) the 2 large theaters, that is were the trash barrels where kept.

When I worked there, one closet is where we stored the concession candy and the other was a custodial closet next to the men’s restroom.

@GoofusMcDoof even though I cleaned it, I cannot remember where you accessed the upstairs...I do remember vacuuming from the front lobby all the way to the back firedoors...

@@KKEM641 I got into the sign by climbing up the meters on the back to the building to the roof and there is a little hatch door that leads to an attic area, didn’t see any other way to that place, but I unlocked the door by lowering a cinder block tied to a wire down onto the crash bar of the front door

$1 back in my day. Not 1st run movies though.

It was a dollar when I first started working there, then switched to two dollars. We made no money off of ticket sales and a majority of the concession money during the winter went to paying the leases on the drive ins because the owner of Globe Cinemas (the company who ran it from 2003 to 2014) didn’t own any of the property.

0:15 That counter in front there is where tickets were sold during my time. The glass case was for candy.

1:10 That particular auditorium maybe 220. We’d declare it sold out once it reached 200 tickets sold though.

1:44 Those projectors were not the originals. Shortly before I started working there, the owner of the company taking over the lease of the theatre hired two people to renovate this location. Those two people bought the cheapest equipment possible and attempted to use the rest of open their own theatre. So there were constant projector malfunctions and the sound system (I use that term loosely) for each auditorium was a single speaker behind each screen. By the time I started working there, a majority of the speakers were blown.

2:13 yep, daily reports for both ticket sales and concession sales.

If it was Scooby Doo 2 and Bruce Almighty, it was probably early 2005 when those reports were printed. I was a projectionist back then.