UPDATE* BOUGHT IT -So I've been offered an old movie theatre built in the late 30s

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I've been following this thread hoping for pictures because I think this is a majorly cool idea.

Is it the Heights theater?

I love art deco.
We have a bedroom furnished in the Deco waterfall style from the thirties.
Anyway, good luck with your endeavor!

Mike

No Mike - not the Heights. It's about the same size though. The Heights theatre is a real mess - I went by there a few years back and they pretty much gutted everything original from the place.

i just saw your link - and yeah, that place is gone as far as original interior goes. So sad.
 
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Congratulations JB. Well done. I hope you post some pictures!
 
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Okay, sorry to let everyone down, but it looks like the darn thing sold. An offer was made and it is pending. And the saddest part about this is if this party buys it - they are tearing it down. I have made it clear to the owner I am interested, and I want to restore it, but unless I shove more money at this he's ready to get rid of it to the first person. My cousins came with me but he wouldn't take us there until another offer is made or this one goes away. Hmmmmm....
 
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Okay, sorry to let everyone down, but it looks like the darn thing sold. An offer was made and it is pending. And the saddest part about this is if this party buys it - they are tearing it down. I have made it clear to the owner I am interested, and I want to restore it, but unless I shove more money at this he's ready to get rid of it to the first person. My cousins came with me but he wouldn't take us there until another offer is made or this one goes away. Hmmmmm....

Agh, that's heartbreaking! Sorry, Paul. I hope that their offer falls through, for your sake and the theater's.
 
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The outcome of this thread really makes me sad.

Why do we have to tear down history
 
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I just found out the reason for the owner trying to get out from under this property so quickly - he is sick and needs to move to be with his son and start treatments. He actually LOWERED his price from our last meeting. I volunteered an upfront sum of cash which would be plenty for him to make his move and begin doctor visits, pending an inspection of the property. He apologized and said he needed to see what happens with the offer. What makes this even sadder, and I'm not 100% sure of this yet but, I think these people want to level the land and put a parking lot at the location.
 
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WHAT?!?!?! o_O, NO! How can anyone allow that.

You haven´t read the story that I wrote a few pages ago about that really nice old 1920ies movie theater now used as a book store, right? ;)

It´s always, and only, about money once investors (hence the term, right?) appear on the scene.

In my time as a location scout I´ve seen a lot of really nice historical buildings getting converted, renovated, leveled. It´s like a curse sometimes, always being a few weeks, months, a year late to the party.

Just recently I had to find an old library, with wood paneling and built in heavy book shelves, and a colleague gave me a headsup on one building that was built as a gift to the Fuhrer in 1939. I found that building, it then was an old school for officers, and almost all of it is still in mostly original shape. But the library had been remodeled as an apartment just last year. Sad, really. But that´s life, out with the old, in with the new ;)

Paul, as far as my experience goes, a deal´s only final when the ink´s dry and money changed hands. I´ve personally seen people back out at the last possible minute in property deals. So lets way and see, and all thumbs pressed.
 
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/\ I read.... Part of it, I thought they kept the main part of the theater from the pictures, not tore the whole thing down.
 
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For anyone still interested I received a phone call today from the owner asking me if I still wanted to buy the place. Seems the previous party planned on buying the theatre and the building across the street to convert them into a Church and (the theatre) would be it's parking lot (because if there's one thing Texas does not have enough of it's Churches). THEN the found out about the strip club down the street and for some reason lost interest real quick. I had no idea there was a strip club, but this new information had the exact opposite effect on me as it did them. I won't be able to to go by there for a week because I'm booked up with meetings in LA - but when I fly back the Texas next weekend (if the owner is in town) I'll click off the pics while my inspector guys do their work.
 
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Awesome. Nothing beats an old theater with ghost stories and a neighbourhood nudie bar.
 
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