Over the holidays, Laguna Beach’s South Coast Cinemas faced off with an all too familiar threat, as heavy rain storms sent a river of mud and water through the downtown area. Flooding proved so severe that most of downtown Laguna was closed off for two days, with many area merchants experiencing significant property damage and a full week of cleanup in the aftermath. While the theatre was forced to pump out several inches of water and removed a carpet of mud from the forecourt area, the cinema escaped relatively unharmed; reopening in time for Christmas.
A semi annual occurrence, flooding has been a regular threat to the South Coast site since it’s inception. The property’s original theatre was damaged, beyond repair, during a flood in the early 1930’s; being rebuilt in to the brick and mortar structure we see today, in 1935.
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