PHOTO: End of an Era -- East Providence Cinemas Demolished
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PHOTO: End of an Era -- East Providence Cinemas Demolished
East Providence Cinemas is officially no more.
The demolition -- captured this week by Derek Molhan -- caps the end of the theater's run, which saw it boarded up earlier this year following a bounced check to the City of East Providence.
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“Then they will sort everything out. The room was caved in due to rain, and no vendors or owners took anything out, everything was left inside," he added.
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As GoLocal reported in January, moviegoers in the theater were ushered out after the city came in with a cease and desist order, following the bounced check.
On February 23, the cinema -- once a first-run theater, before running second-run movies -- was boarded up and padlocked by the city.
“As a former worker for the theater, that's a lot of Pepsi machines and merchandise that was lost,” said Molhan on Wednesday.