COAST RIVER BUSINESS JOURNAL
NOvEmBER 2019 • 3
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LUKE WHITTAKER
Kaarina Stotts and her son Aarin, 12, pose for a picture outside the Neptune Theatre in Long Beach in early November. Since purchasing the theatre in October 2018,
Stotts has been busy improving and upgrading the building over the past year.
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What businesses do you cur-
rently own?
“Neptune Theatre and Tinker
Towne Mall, just sold Shipwreck
Cove Antiques.”
What’s been your role in
each?
“With Neptune I do nearly
everything, including request-
ing movies through my broker,
scheduling movies, building the
movies, and obviously working
customer service. I’m on Face-
book literally every single day
trying to remind people that we
are here. It actually takes a lot
of time to run this theater, way
more than expected.”
“With Tinker Towne, I basi-
cally do a ton of paperwork as
each renter takes care of them-
selves. If something is broke, I
call someone to fix it. Nothing
glorified here.”
What aspect do you enjoy
the most?
“Easy... the patrons! I have
met so many people and feel like
I have established some great
Neptune Theatre and
Tinker Towne Mall
Kaarina Stotts, owner
Neptune Theatre
809 Ocean Beach Blvd. South,
Long Beach
360-642-8888
Neptunemoviehouse.com
Tinker Towne mall
811 Pacific Ave., Long Beach
relationships with people I didn’t
know before the theater. Even
people from far away. And also,
by far, I have the best people to
work with behind the counter,
making my job so much fun!”
Are there any customer sto-
ries that resonate with you?
“I can’t really say there is.
However, I can say that I have
some awesome movie-goers that
have basically just volunteered
themselves to be in my life
one way or another. One lady
has been making me a Face-
book calendar for over a year
now, before I had even met her.
She just offered through Face-