It’s curtains for Colma theater

A bit of hometown news: it turns out the UA Metro movie theater in Colma is being torn down. Wow. I guess one could see it coming. Though located at one end of a medium-sized strip mall anchored by Home Depot and Barnes & Noble, other larger shopping areas abound, and so it seems remote in comparison. And the fact that it borders on the quiet, cemetery-side of Colma probably didn’t help. It’s the closest movie theater to my parents’ house in Daly City, but we’d usually go instead to the theater near Tanforan in San Bruno, or more recently, the fairly new, almost too huge cineplex near the BART station, which (I reluctantly concede) has become pretty much the place for local suburban moviegoers. It’s hard to escape the gravitational pull of twenty screens and stadium seating.

Anyway, I became aware of the Colma demolition only today, through a posting on the Stanford networking e-mail list. Movie screens or seats, anyone?

The UA Theater in Colma, CA (next to Daly City) will be demolished in 7 days and I am selling the movie screens and movie theater seats to any who are interested. The screens and seats are in good condition and could be easily removed and reused (e.g. home theaters, schools, churches, etc.)…