flea pit

flea pit
a) A dilapidated building, stereotypically hosting a low-grade cinema.

The Upland Cinema ("The Flea Pit") stood on the corner of The Grove, the street where he had been born.

b) followed the fortunes of my hero Jim . . .

The Regal is no longer there, but, when I was eight, nine, and ten it was a flea pit down beside the harbor.


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