Huntington's Keith-Albee to close

[Genki]

End of an era:


Huntington, WV (HNN) -- One of the few fully functioning first-run movie palaces left in the United States will cease operating as a movie theatre Sunday Jan. 22, 2006....

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/local/060119-rutheford-ka.html

[Lasher]

1. Too bad. I was just wishing I could still go to a drive-in movie (EOM)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. gotta love how the hgn. city leaders screwed local businesses

with the corporate pullman square, an establishment that seemed designed to have a corporate version of every 4th ave business. were they trying to kill off local shopowners when they built this thing and replace downtown with a minimall?

[laruemtt]

3. so sorry to hear this.

we're down here in the caribbean for an extended period of time but plan to return to wv. any word on whether they will use it as a venue for plays or symphonies? what a magnificent building.