It is a thing of beauty, but it won't be a joy forever unless we act now to save it from destruction.
The AMC Narrows Plaza 8 is a theater frozen in time, a woolly mammoth cloaked in brown brick and beautiful 70s-era styling cues.  I wish I had taken a camera when I last went.  It's a time capsule, a monument.
Let's hope it meets the "specific criteria for a building less than 50 years old," so it can be saved for posterity as a memorial to the tackiest decade in American architecture, the greatest decade in American film.
Look at that empty parking lot.  Without our help, the Narrows 8 won't last another decade.
 
 
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