If there were ghosts in the Beach Theatre, of flickering movie stars, projector operators, teenage concessionaires or the many thousands who sat in its rickety rocking chair seats for seven decades, they’re all gone now.
What remains, after nine years of inactivity, is peeling paint, worn red carpet, a sad-looking silent white screen and a floor covered with fallen ceiling tiles, cobwebs and tufts of pink insulation.Christopher Scott knew the Beach Theatre was in … disrepair when he bought the vacant movie house in August.
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