MANNINGTON — When Susan Starkey passed during COVID in 2022, she left behind a dream unfulfilled.

The Old Show Building in Mannington, an old movie theater repurposed into a restaurant, lay rundown and beaten, having barely survived the flood in 2017 only to deal with more torrential weather last summer. Debris is strewn everywhere, with the two vintage steel film projectors in the theater’s projection room left as the only ghosts of the theater’s past glory and the bygone era of film.

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