M S3aveloc!;'s Joyo "Sigq'tg i i j 4 j ) i j i 4 1 ; I St. 1 i " 1 i 1. ; I ir u Photo by Tod Kkfc The Joyo Theatre, leceistSy dosed, has been purchased sad wO reopen Wedaesday. Owner J any GuUssd ssys the theatre, tiadlti!2y showing fasiSy csovies, 8w show a wide? variety of Cms. (H' Ifl'C V i ! M I 11 9 in ' "r"'"" tinn r ri - i " n a fi UUBU U UftiUIUIitli I a n ninn Or J 'I i v. y ... ry plus r n irJ bii UU LM nUi'i liili i 1 i 7.K PfCOUCiiCnS J "1 comes tuai worn mo azu By llziy Jo Fiizl Ths Joyo Thcstre, t long-standing liavtlock institution for famUy f2m enter tiLmtnt, rtcpta Weinssiay ttccurs "it looked lilce a business that cculj be brought back." Jerry GiJ!nd, t!ie new ownsr of the Joyo, sdd he bought the theatre beceuse he though he couli mike sonic money. Gtslhsad, a real estate tent for Dehaoat Red Estate Con declined to ssy how much he pdd for the theatre. "There's been a theatre in Kavelock for over 50 years," he said. "Hopefully, the cost?ia will come back," The Joyo, 6102 Kavelock Ave., closed Oct. 21 after 63 years of providing family . fin entertainment in the Eavdock area. Former owner Phil McBaimott of Oiasha closed the theatre becsise of a decrease in motion picture production. "People go, but there's just not enough films to go around,'" McDermott ssdd. The deserted theatre wss on sale for less than 30 days, said Ron Brannin, Gateway Realty' aenl handling the sale. Havelock residents were "quite concerned as to what was going" to happen to the Joyo," Brannin said. "They were afraid that this community would no longer have a smsll, community-type theatre." After the "For Sale" sign went up in front of the Joyo, Brsnnin's office began receiving numerous phone calls expressing an interest in the theatre. Some callers wanted to buy the theatre and others were interested in seeing the Joyo preserved as a movie house. "If you stop and think how many years the theatre was on that corner, it'd be shame to discontinue the attraction," Bramsia said" Gulsnd's plans for the Joyo call for a new basse. He said he is "absolutely" trying to charts the reputation of the former family film, G-rated movie house. "Obviously it's been allowed to deterior ate," he stid of the Joyo's irr.?e. The reopened Joyo wll be a general, theatre, according to Gulknd. "By gencrd, I mem it won't be an X-rated theatre, but not just a G." Fihns will be on par with what is bebg played in the downtowa theatres, but the Joyo will be aimed it a different clientele than . the downtown crowd, Gullaad sdd. "We'd like to have more of a small town type of crowd." Admission prices at the new theatre wl be reminiscent of the low rates of the former Joyo. Gulland said children's admission w3 be 75 cents, the same price charged at the eld theatre. Students with an identification card and elderly persons with a spedd pass wO be admitted for $1. General adult prices wO be $2. Adult admission was $1 JO. Renovations for the new theatre are planned before its opening, although Gulland said he wants to retain the physicd image of the Joyo and make it functiond. "Just about everything" needs to be done before the Joyo's debut Vednesday, . bar, installing a whellchair ramp and putting heat lamps under the marquee so customers standing outside the theatre can keep warm while waiting for a bus or a ride. Public service plans are being discussed by Gulland and his family, which is helping him prepare the theatre for its Wednes day opening. Flans indude coinciding Cm showings with bus schedules and store hours in the Havelock district, he said. - . eUllGSrS I5U2Z HOOKS " :: ; ' 'cnjsc!o' Monday--end vTuasday, at rosidsnco halls - ' ' li i r3ii nousss during evening nnsal h Fifty cents. j " i s. .' I... 1 o j '"- -x. rv CCORT.l R2trc jimrtic-rr.i li m iiKiinvwvwi m K n is.' 2 Y '1 i t i - ! l! l: ).' (,