Like Architecture?

[famerebel]

Then sign my petition to save the Century Five Dome in Pleasant Hill..!! Please? its an architectural landmark, or at least it should be. It was built in 1966... Heres my petitions body:
Early next year the Pleasant Hill Contra Costa (Wards) Shopping Center is set to be demolished, leaving a polished lot of free space- for commercial interests.
The shopping center is dead in itself, the only activity it receives is from Bally's Gym and the Cine Arts dome.
Bally's, among the other stores- including Friedman's and the Dollar Tree- will most likely be relocated into the newer buildings. However, the Dome structure will be lost forever.
It's spirit will be carried on in a newer Cine Arts theatre- to be built states the proposed remodeling plans. But the fact sill remains- the dome structure is not in the new plans and it needs to be.

The Century 5 dome was built in 1966 as a Cinerama movie theatre. The dome represents not only a piece of film history, but it is also a timeless piece of architectural history.

The Cinerama Dome theatre was vastly popular in the late 60's, early 70's, but many have been demolished due to film format changes.

The Domes Cinerama screen is indeed wider and slightly shorter than your average screen nowadays, but it does not overly distort the image of newer films.

What better place to see artistic/ foreign movies than in an artistic movie theatre?

The dome doesn't have to remain a theatre either. CinemaTreasures.org believes the dome could definitely be built around and still preserved. And it could be! It's well maintained, and with a few changes (newer slides, larger restrooms, etc) it could shine to the highest extent. The large (dome) theatre could easily be converted to a student movie theatre, playhouse or IMAX theatre- if it's changed from a Cine Arts theatre. The smaller buildings in the theatre could then be converted to smaller stores then built around into the "fresher mega mall" type appeal Buskirk Partners would like to achieve.
The possibilities for this independent Dome movie theatre are endless.

Please sign this petition and preserve this beautiful building before it's too late!

You dont have to be a citizen, from the area, a legal adult, anything. Just sign if you support the arts and preserving architectural landmarks and film history. And show the redevelopment adgency of pleasant and the rest of the world that people those things are important. Thank you.
Please sign the petition at http://savedome.cjb.net

Memories are welcome too! Thank You.