Remember the Days Before Huge Multi-Plex Movie Theaters?!
Question: When there were smaller "mom & pop" local movie theaters before the 25-movie theaters started getting built....I miss those.
There're still a handful of privately owned smaller theaters around, but I think most have been converted to showing foreign/artsy films.
I dunno. I think the small ones had character. These big ones, though convenient, all look & feel the same.
Answers: When there were smaller "mom & pop" local movie theaters before the 25-movie theaters started getting built....I miss those.
There're still a handful of privately owned smaller theaters around, but I think most have been converted to showing foreign/artsy films.
I dunno. I think the small ones had character. These big ones, though convenient, all look & feel the same.
We had the Woodlawn theater near our home and the screen in there was a lot bigger then any of these multiplex screens are now. We could go in early in the day and watch the movie as many times as we liked. They had an usher that would tell people to leave if they were talking or causing any kind of trouble. Not like now people talk and let their children kick you chair. I can remember going to see the movie Help and my girl friends and I watched it all day we loved the Beatles! The price of admission started at 25 cents when we first started to go there and the price climbed to a whopping 85 cents the last time I can remember going there. Of course we had the South drive in theater as well and memories of our whole family climbing in to the car and going to see movies there. Later on when we were teenagers we would put people in the trunk of the car an sneak in to the drive in. The theater got wise to it and charged $5.00 per car to get in and it did not matter how many you had in the car. What fun we had there! You could get ice cream and pizza, burgers and hot dogs and of course popcorn but it did not cost an arm and a leg to see a movie. They always had cartoons before the movies and most of the time they had a double header at the drive in! Too bad we can't go back!
I know whatcha mean, I used to go to one in the town that I now live in and grew up in. It was a mom & pop establishment and it only showed three month run movies and it was always a double feature for a $1.00. The same old man would sell you the ticket, run to the door to collect it and then sell you the refreshments behind the concession stand. Now, there's a multi-plex down the street and the old theater is a live production theater. Man, I miss those days!
when was that? 1912?
its called evolution
kind of like Apes became man
maybe you should start using a computer and a cell phone and go to those Multi plexes.
they play more movies
Yeah, I'm older and I can still remember 35 cent admission (50 cents for the blockbusters) and kids under 12 got in free.
The movies ran with cartoons and usually a newsreel of some type. Also you didnt have to leave the movie after it was over so if you got there at 7:30 for a 7:00 movie you could stay for the next show at 9 and see the part you missed.
We still have a few smaller mom and pops that show first run movies but only after they have been out 3 weeks.
But then we had mom and pop stores back then as well, not these big "Box" stores.
What I really miss is the small hardware store where you could go in and say you needed the whatch-ma-call it that connects to the thing-a-ma-bob and they knew exactly what you were talking about.
The trouble with the multiplex is that they have to turn out a bunch of junk movies to fill them.
In Detroit Michigan the Redford Theatre built in 1930 is still open every two weeks and shows classic movies....classics only.......has a balcony and about 1700 seats with a 1930s Barton Pipe Organ that plays music before the movies......has a japanese art deco design on the walls and a nice chandlier in the concession area...a very large theatre that will remind you of going to the movies in the 50s and 60s with a marquee outside too with the yellow lights....they will be soon showing the Disney classic "Swiss Family Robinson" made in 1960.