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Post by ARENA on Mar 17, 2014 11:48:44 GMT
Saturday morning was the best day of the week. No school and Saturday Morning Pictures. Several hundred screaming children gathered together in their local cinema for a morning of cowboys, cartoons and competitions. Everything from The Three Stooges to Superman, Old Mother Riley to Captain Marvel. Loads of cartoons (mighty Mouse was my favourite), sing-alongs, and choc ices from the 'lady with the tray'. Not to mention the grumpy commissionaire with his torch bellowing at boisterous boys and giggling girls to ‘Keep it down!’ and ‘Stop chucking that orange peel!’ I was made a monitor at the ABC ....wages one choc ice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2014 12:08:40 GMT
Happy days indeed Arena. The buzz of excitement in the queue, then the mad scramble (and maybe a bit of foul play) to get the 'best' seats. Our cinema had a balcony and you quickly learned not to sit in the line of fire under it. Once the film was stopped because some kid threw chewing gum at the screen which stuck. The screens were made of thousands of glass beads and I think the damage cost a few bob to put right.
I doubt many of us could actually hear the dialogue, but who cares, it was similar to last week, and the Lone ranger would ride again, off into the sunset. The fact that the picture went slightly fuzzy every time a train went through the station did nothing to diminish the enjoyment.
Now they have ballet classes or something, and endless mind numbing American childrens TV. Though I confess to recording the whole series of Shaun the Sheep from CBeebies. Mossy Bottom Farm probably goes over the heads of most children but like so much of Aardman there is always a bit in there for the parents!
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Post by ARENA on Mar 17, 2014 13:22:24 GMT
Yeh, to hell with all your modern stuff.... I wanted ,desperately ,to be Johnny Weissmuller. www.imdb.com/title/tt0023551/To this day he, is the 'real' Tarzan for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2014 14:02:32 GMT
Absolutely Arena.
I took my children to see Superman a few years ago and the sight of little boys on the way out, rushing and leaping down the stairs with their coats tied around their necks like capes took me back!
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Post by ARENA on Mar 17, 2014 16:36:38 GMT
When was the last time you saw a little lad galloping down the round, slapping his flank, to make himself go faster?
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Post by Wintershore on Jun 27, 2016 10:24:48 GMT
Saturday morning was the best day of the week. No school and Saturday Morning Pictures. Several hundred screaming children gathered together in their local cinema for a morning of cowboys, cartoons and competitions. Everything from The Three Stooges to Superman, Old Mother Riley to Captain Marvel. Loads of cartoons (mighty Mouse was my favourite), sing-alongs, and choc ices from the 'lady with the tray'. Not to mention the grumpy commissionaire with his torch bellowing at boisterous boys and giggling girls to ‘Keep it down!’ and ‘Stop chucking that orange peel!’ I was made a monitor at the ABC ....wages one choc ice. My one was: which was just down a bit from my grandmother's on George Street. It closed down a while ago, though. Then there was this: The ABC on Union Street.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 27, 2016 10:43:01 GMT
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Post by Wintershore on Jun 27, 2016 11:24:30 GMT
That was in easy walking distance for me. I lived on Ashley Road.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 27, 2016 12:09:49 GMT
That was in easy walking distance for me. I lived on Ashley Road. Were not related are we? I lived in Union Grove and went to Ashley Road School!
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Post by Wintershore on Jun 27, 2016 13:15:53 GMT
That was in easy walking distance for me. I lived on Ashley Road. Were not related are we? I lived in Union Grove and went to Ashley Road School! It was just across the road form us. My younger sisters went there. I didn't go there; we used to live in Culter, and went to Culter Primary School and on to Cults Academy for a year. When we moved into town, closer to my grandmother, I went to The Academy, which became Hazlehead Academy when it moved in 1970. It's a small world, though. You must definitely have lived round the corner from me at some time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2016 16:47:42 GMT
I lived in a village and remember this huge sort of furniture removal type van that used to come and show films. The whole back would open up to reveal the screen I remember Red River and Sentimental Journey being shown in instalments No idea who paid for this, can't imagine my parents forking out for me to watch as money was so tight Years later we used to travel to the Odeon in Leicester with a mate who had a car, to see visiting American stars and bands. Never forget the Duke Ellington band who when they played one of their "Blues" the cinema lights turned blue. Oh how we thought we were "it"
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Post by althea on Jun 27, 2016 17:48:35 GMT
When I was five we lived with my nan and granddad for a while.My father was still at sea in the navy. I used to go to the Saturday morning crush at the Queens.It cost fourpence. There was another cinema,called the Hippodrome. It was always called the Hip.It was only threepence at the Hip,but nan wouldn't let me go to the Hip. It was too rough for the likes of us. We always galloped out if we'd seen a cowboy film. If it was Tarzan we imagined we were swinging from vines. We used to get lolly ices that were in gaudy colours. As soon as you'd had one suck,the colour disappeared.
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