Keeping Port Alive

Just a few lines to say thank you for your wonderful column on the closing of Corona del Mar’s Port Theatre (“Port Is Adjourned,” Aug. 18).

If it were not for your article, many people would have missed the final days of this grand old theater on Coast Highway. In the years that I managed the Port, it would have closed or been taken over by the Edwards chain 10 years sooner had it not been for the Times writers. So it is through the efforts of writers that many of our landmarks have had extended life spans. Again, thank you.

DENNIS LESLIE

Garden Grove