Curtain To Drop On Cinema At The Avalon
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 13, 2008
Most of the time, it didn’t matter what film was showing at Cinema at the Avalon longtime friends Thelma Hughes and Janet Johnson were regulars at the Wednesday senior matinees.
The nonprofit’s board of directors decided to terminate the use arrangement for the building it had with the city of Grand Junction, which owns the Avalon Theatre.
Hughes and Johnson said they’ve been going to see movies in the Avalon Theater building since they were elementary school age, when it was called the Cooper Theater.
The two friends said they’ll probably do less shopping on Main Street now because movies were their excuse to go downtown.
Gretchen Reist, executive director of Cinema at the Avalon, said she would like to keep a film presence in Grand Junction, however small it is.
Reist said she thinks the Radio Room will offer new possibilities, flexibility and opportunity that didn’t exist at the Avalon Theater.
Movie-goers stuck dollars in the tip jar marked “employee severance package” and commented among themselves about the movies they’ve seen in the building, how much they’re going to miss it and whether they wanted butter on their popcorn.
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