[mylife]

I loved the majestic old theatres where we would all go out together, several couples and just dig the entire atmosphere of the BIG screen and all the beauty of the theatre.

Off for dinner and drinks and a good chin wag about the movie afterwards.

Now everything is so compressed.

[roadcat]

I loved the majestic old theatres where we would all go out together, several couples and just dig the entire atmosphere of the BIG screen and all the beauty of the theatre.

Where I grew up, we had a bunch of majestic theatres. It seemed like the screen was almost as wide as a football field (I was a kid). They had intermissions, where the theatre staff would have raffles for prizes, and other entertainment. Fun to go just for that. Not to mention the cartoons before the first movie and before the second one (yes, sometimes you'd see two for a single ticket). Those days are long gone, as well as the theatres.

[MacMattico]

Our little village used to have a movie theater before I was born. My dad used to say he could take a quarter and every Saturday afternoon watch a new movie and also buy a snack. He watched the newsreels and pre-movie cartoons. Every kid lined up down the road for the Saturday Matinee.

My dad met my mom there when he offered to drive her home because her boyfriend at the time wanted to go somewhere else! She only lived four blocks away! But they were married over 50 years and I miss them both!