The GoFather Of Math: The Modern Ruins Of Downtown Long Beach

It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART

I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO

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Friday, November 2, 2018

The Modern Ruins Of Downtown Long Beach

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Once upon a time

in downtown Long Beach,

there was a multiplex theatre

with sixteen screens

It opened its doors
in 1992
then went out of business
in 2010

This image
is from a website
called
"Cinema Treasures"
because Long Beach
is not the kind of town
to call it
"Cinema Mistakes"

I photographed
the image below
in 2012

It features
an aerial view
of what had been
the elevator
within
the multiplex

© Oliverio

I do not know
what that former elevator
looks like today

But the space
that occupied
sixteen movie screens
is unoccupied by
any retail business
or public use
in 2018

However,
the exterior
of the building
looks almost identical
to how it appeared
in 1992
but without any posters
or signage
for featured films

In 2018,
The exterior
of the cineplex
is graced with
the most popular sign
in Downtown Long Beach:
LEASING SPECIALS

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