BUENA PARK : Car Dealership to Use Adult Theater Site
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The Pussycat Theater, a movie house for adult films, has been shut down, boarded up and soon will make way for an expanded Ted Jones Ford auto dealership, officials said.
“The city has no use for, and will not tolerate, facilities that cater to a degenerate environment,” Mayor Don R. Griffin said in reading a prepared statement at Monday’s City Council meeting.
City officials had long said they wanted to close the theater. They saw an opportunity when the owner of the property filed earlier this year for bankruptcy protection.
The city purchased the property, which is in a business redevelopment project area, for about $300,000 through U.S. Bankruptcy Court, said Thomas E. Lynch, director of development services.
The city already had negotiated an agreement with Ted Jones Ford to buy the six-acre property for a showroom and service facilities, plus space for more than 3,000 new automobiles at the Beach Boulevard site, Lynch said.
The theater was one of a chain of Pussycat Theaters started in the early 1960s by the late Vincent Miranda. The Buena Park theater was last owned by George M. Tate of Los Angeles, who sought bankruptcy protection last spring. Tate’s attorney did not return calls Tuesday.
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