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B.J. Britton May 11, 2013 at 01:30 pm
I am a senior citizen Gregory Gardener. I remember and miss the days when the Dome and the mall…Read More were great places to go. The holiday mall was filled with artists and vendors, from whom I bought many a gift at Christmastime. I regularly shopped the other businesses attached to the mall. I do not drive to Berkeley anymore, and will really miss the ease of attending great movies in the Dome. I will not restate my belief that we DO NOT need another sporting goods store.
A Gregory Gardener May 10, 2013 at 05:06 pm
Also, Robert, there is the small matter of the fact that the Dome was centrally located, and within…Read More easy walking or driving distance of a Senior housing community where elders could come to see matinee movies. Not so with the Solano Drive In.
A Gregory Gardener May 10, 2013 at 04:29 pm
@ Robert--I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that you brought that up!! It segues right into the fact that the…Read More ever-community-minded Sywest has plans for the existing Drive-In theater down the road in Concord involving a large grocery development, I believe. Look for this in the news, or on Concord Patch
.( http://concord-ca.patch.com/articles/drive-in-on-dome-demolishers-list-of-development-projects).
I wonder if the city of Concord will listen to your idea--if the Planning Process is not too advanced, already...! Oh, goody. another battle with Vierra and development-minded city planners. Whoo-hoo... (not).
ROBERT E. FISHBACK May 10, 2013 at 09:48 pm
When the Okies left in dust bowl and moved to Ca...it raised the IQ level in both states.You are…Read More probably related to an Okie...They picked your fruit, until somebody said ouch....You need to lighten up and have a good ole time....Do google Bob Wills music...Putchee in a good mood.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK May 10, 2013 at 09:33 pm
Ida....have you heard the song Ida Red? Google Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and enjoy,,,,If you…Read More want to enjoy and laugh..do google Bob Wills Music. To maximize all things...a combination dance hall for slow dancing with a full bar and a screen at one end could satisfy the whole deal. It would not have to be huge. I would have suggrested an ice skating rink, but older folks don;t need a broken hip. Ice rinks are sooo romantic. The old Pasadena Winter Garden was closed as an ice rink, but the years of it being an ice rink froze the soil way down and they had perma frost for years in So Cal. Yes, young and old like to slow dance to sweet old songs. Maybe there is hope....Where there is no vision, the people perish. Bob f
ida Bogue May 10, 2013 at 08:43 pm
wth,,,, I think this is crazy, taking away our theater,wth are we suppose to do??? taking away our…Read More past and putting more shopping are u kidding me,,,our kids have no, good ole drive ins, just more flipping shopping, I say NO to knocking it down, and the past is always something that we can look back on and say good times there, not just oh knock it down we need another flipping shopping center,just like skating rings, what do u want ur kids to do all the time SHOP?????? NO roller skating rings, bowling alleys and drive in movie theaters should stay,,,,,,
Trenton Gregory May 14, 2013 at 12:57 am
If someone....really thought the property was maintained so badly they would want nothing to do with…Read More Dicks , think you all got played and would thank them for anything! Ha Ha
Opinion8d May 13, 2013 at 11:51 pm
I wish people on this page would look into the ways that "property rights" have been…Read More trumped by the American value of preserving historic landmarks time and time again throughout our land.
Respect for our history trumps property rights sometimes - and if Vierra hadn't slithered in so quickly to destroy the Dome, just because he could, he'd have found that out. Of course, that's why he demolished it before anyone could make a move.
bubu May 2, 2013 at 12:06 am
I found this out much too late when I got my bike stolen at 19th and Broadway in Oakland. I had a…Read More cheap cable with a master lock. They cut thru that cable like butter. This only leads me to believe that their are people(criminals) that case the areas where bikes are stored. It would very easy to catch these crooks with a sting operation. Lets get to it BART and local agencies!
mikedude May 8, 2013 at 06:53 pm
Well, folks, you're too late to file another lawsuit. It's already been torn down.
Magic 8 ball May 8, 2013 at 05:31 pm
All this pissing and moaning about how you think someone else MUST use their private property in a…Read More manner to further your wants and desires is ridiculous.
michael fenley May 8, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Well said! I understand that some people like the bigger theater but they are not financially…Read More viable any longer. More people enjoy the new style theater. Theater developers don't sit around a table and design new projects that the majority of their customers won't like and then spend millions to build them. If this theater had the architectural significance of the old Fox or Paramount theaters, I'd be all over trying to save it. Those truly are meaningful glimpses into our past. The Dome does not meet the standard and if it were restored to its original condition, it still would be not be worth keeping. Enough said on this. It is coming down. I'm sure the developer will not wait long now. I don't think another sporting goods store in this market is necessarily the best use for this property, but it is not my money. If that is what they want to do, as long as it meets zoning requirements, they should be allowed to redevelop their property as they think best.
Jesse Skeen May 8, 2013 at 03:07 am
True, but that's why some old things should be kept around- so we can still experience them the way…Read More they really were. How much nostalgia will there be for theaters that were built more recently, unless forthcoming theaters get even smaller?
Emily Henry (Editor) April 8, 2013 at 01:03 pm
Correct! Good guess, PH Fan! I love the library style.
Judy Anne Van Arsdale April 3, 2013 at 08:40 pm
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Best movie of its kind ever at that point in time.
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