Fairway Cineplex going the way of King's College Cinemas?

[james_davis_nicoll]

In its last days, KKC could be a pretty grotty theatre since whenever possible its management avoided investing any money in what was clearly a doomed location. The low point came when about half the seats were broken and all of the urinals in the men's had been removed from the wall.

Last night I am told that the women's washroom at Fairway had toilet paper everywhere and there was no soap. When this was mentioned to the usher, he mentioned that in fact there was no soap anywhere in the theatre, a revelation that the manager (standing directly behind him, although I don't think he knew that when he spoke to us) did not react well to.

There was at least one broken seat in the theatre and the sound was loud but fuzzy (or whatever the right word for the aural analog of unfocused is). I had a hard time making out what people were saying even though the sound was loud enough to be uncomfortable.