UA Coronet

We went to the Coronet for the first (and last) time, last thursday to see Million Dollar Baby. I won't go into any practical details since the theater is going to be closed and torn down, but I will talk about it's grandeur. This place was a fantastic huge theater. Very well kept and a very stylish building. It was like a small opera house or other fancy venue. It just felt classy to watch stuff there.

I have mixed feelings about places like these getting torn down. In one way, it's so neat to see something here (the sound and picture were both updated to great current standards) and see the layout of a place like this. But on the other hand, I always think if a business can't sustain itself, something has to change. It seemed like there was no longer any place for a theater of the Coronet mode. I just wish that it didn't have to be replaced by something that will probably be unspectacular like more condos. Great things should be replaced with more great things and not just the projects of financial opportunists.

On a sad note, it seemed the theater staff was unmoved by the situation of the theater. One manager in particular arbitrarily stopped one couple from taking pictures (despite the fact that many others had just done so) and that the theater was going to be a fading memory soon. Institutionalizing things, it appears, takes some of the humanity out of people. In all areas of life.