temple

The latest drama playing out at a community theater in Sanford isn't on the stage.
 It's in the back office.
[TAKE VO] 
{***VO***}
Police are looking into claims that someone stole more than 130 thousand dollars from the Temple Theater.
As Bryan Mims shows us how the community is rallying around their historic theater.

To look at the Temple Theatre from the street, you can hear the 20s roar.
The old marquee, the Coca-Cola ad on the brick -- they can quench our thirst for nostalgia.
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{***CHRIS DELAMBERT***}
<"ITS THE MEMORIES AND THE AMBIENCE. THERE'S NEWER FACILITIES THAT YOU CAN GO INTO AND THEY'RE SHINY AND SPARKLY.">
Chris de Lambert is business director of the Temple, which opened as a vaudeville house in 1925.

{***CHRIS DE LAMBERT***}
<"LAST YEAR, WE SERVED PATRONS FROM 61 OF NORTH CAROLINA'S 100 COUNTIES.">