{"id":71,"date":"2009-02-07T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2014-04-17T07:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T07:14:44","slug":"bay-theatre-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/02\/07\/bay-theatre-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Theatre For Sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This past week, a rumor surfaced that <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/bay-theatre\/#more-161\" target=\"_blank\">Seal Beach&#8217;s historic Bay Theatre <\/a>is up for sale.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Built in 1947,\u00a0this former Fox West Coast Theatre has managed to survive, virtually unchanged, for some sixty-two years. Having focused on art and classic bookings, since the late 1970&#8217;s, the Bay has carved out a\u00a0stable niche in the Orange County cinema scene,\u00a0avoiding the\u00a0decline (and closure)\u00a0most of\u00a0it&#8217;s peers\u00a0experienced during the later twentieth century. Now, with the rumored sale listing, in addition to the theatre&#8217;s 2007 removal\u00a0of it&#8217;s Wurlitzer pipe organ, there has to be some concern raised, as to the Bay&#8217;s future. While it seems\u00a0unlikely Seal Beach would ever allow the theatre to be demolished, a potential change in ownership\u00a0is certainly something to keep an eye on.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Below are two\u00a0pictures of\u00a0the Bay Theatre, separated by some sixty years.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatreoriginal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Classic Bay Theatre \" alt=\"Classic Bay Theatre\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatreoriginal-300x243.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatreoriginal-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatreoriginal-150x121.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatreoriginal.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatrepresentday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Bay Theatre Present Day\" alt=\"Bay Theatre Present Day\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatrepresentday-300x231.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatrepresentday-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatrepresentday-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/baytheatrepresentday.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, a rumor surfaced that Seal Beach&#8217;s historic Bay Theatre is up for sale. Built in 1947,\u00a0this former Fox West Coast Theatre has managed to survive, virtually unchanged, for some sixty-two years. Having focused on art and classic bookings, since the late 1970&#8217;s, the Bay has carved out a\u00a0stable niche in the Orange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}