Going to the movies as a kid
Going to the movies as a kid
#1Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/29/16 at 6:51pm
When I first started to go to movies there were double features for 50 cents. You could see Tales From The Crypt and Joe Kidd for half a buck.
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#2Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/29/16 at 8:22pm
My hometown movie theaters had a James Bond Trilogy every summer for 75 cents. Six hours of Bond! MY PARENTS LOVED IT.
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#3Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/29/16 at 11:12pm
The Hose That Dripped Blood. Roddy Mcdowall seemed to be a fixture in these films.
Stephanatic
#4Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/30/16 at 3:12am
My favorites that came every year were "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" and "Yours, Mine and Ours".
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#5Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/30/16 at 4:27am
I'm so old, when I was a kid, a family of 4 could all go to the movies for just one fox pelt.
#6Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/30/16 at 7:04am
When I was a kid you could go see finding nemo for 6 dollars!
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#7Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 2:12pm
Don't know what prices were back in the day, but when I was a kid going to movies with my parents, I recall times where we'd get there, get our tickets, and go in to see the movie, already (perhaps well) in process, sit through that showing and remain there for the next showing, which we'd watch until it got to the part where we had come in originally. It never seemed like anything unusual at the time, and no one seemed to mind.
This may be why I am sometimes prone to peek ahead to see how a book ends, or why I like movie (and tv) spoilers.
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#8Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 3:11pm
We had to drive 25 miles to go to a "show" as we called it in Kansas. I remember 1776 and also the first Star Wars at a nice old and charming theater. We had "shows" in the very early 70s is our small town, but closed when I was 6. We also went to the drive in - I remember seeing Grease at the drive in.
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#9Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 5:39pm
During the summer we had fun shows. Admission was RC cola bottle caps. There was a race game and if you had the number that the winner had you won a prize. I wished and wished every week to win a prize. I never did! Then when I was about 12 there was a theater chain (2 theaters) that played three movies for $1. Sometimes it would be horror movies...sometimes comedies. Then when I got a little older around 15, I would take the bus downtown and go to those theaters that were playing the black films like Blacula, Coffy and Illsa She Devil. It was scary at the time. Then I would visit the downtown pharmacy and sneak a peak at the Playgirl magazine. Youth
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#9Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 5:39pm
Double memory
Updated On: 8/31/16 at 05:39 PM
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#10Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 7:16pm
My one kid memory at the movies was seeing The Sound of Music with my mom. (Poorly worded. My mother wasn't in the movie.)
It's not that I remember anything specific about the film itself. It's just that it had an intermission which, at the time, was just about the coolest thing in the world
#11Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 7:39pm
I don't remember seeing it because I was probably asleep but Mary Poppins at a drive through with older brothers and sisses, maybe Mom and Dad. I remember first seeing Jaws, going in with low expectations and then leaving thinking there will never be a better movie made(Circa 12). Loved The Sting, fitty cent. There is a theater, the nearest one to me, that has only reclined seats and even bars. Is this a Florida phenomenon or is this everywhere?
Stephanatic
#12Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 7:59pm
I remember seeing a double feature of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "Support Your Local Sheriff" in a Cape Cod drive-in with mom, sister and brother.
#13Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 10:27pm
Earliest memory of seeing a movie: a drive-in showing of CLEOPATRA somewhere in the Great Smokies of Tennesee where our family would go camping in the summers. Thunderstorms forced my folks to pile us into our Ford Fairlane 500 station wagon and head to the nearest drive-in. The movie seemed interminable to the 6-year-old me--watching yet another seduction scene between Taylor and Burton between the swoosh swoosh of the windshield wipers was too boring for words.
MARY POPPINS came out when I was 8-- I remember long long lines to the box office waiting in the bitter cold that first weekend we went. It remained my very favorite movie well into my teens, and Julie Andrews my favorite star well into my 30's. (Ok, fine, she's still my favorite star today...) THE SOUND OF MUSIC came out the next year and seemed hopelessly corny by comparison to this masterpiece.
#14Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 8/31/16 at 10:35pm
One more memory: seeing THE TINGLER in its original run when I was about 10 or 11. There were no ankle ticklers installed in our dinky movie theater (in Ardmore PA) to induce screams and chills down our spines, something I learned about years later in documentaries covering the phenomenon that was THE TINGLER. But the shift from black and white photography for most of the movie to full and sickening technicolor just for the scene in the bathroom where the sink and tub filled with blood-- that was a special effect that truly traumatized me for years. I refused to go to another horror movie till I was at least 25. (That was the year my then-boyfriend took me to see the horror classic, I DISMEMBER MAMA.) Good times.
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#15Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 9/1/16 at 2:39am
South Florida said: "I don't remember seeing it because I was probably asleep but Mary Poppins at a drive through with older brothers and sisses, maybe Mom and Dad. I remember first seeing Jaws, going in with low expectations and then leaving thinking there will never be a better movie made(Circa 12). Loved The Sting, fitty cent. There is a theater, the nearest one to me, that has only reclined seats and even bars. Is this a Florida phenomenon or is this everywhere?
One of the AMC chain theatres on the Upper West Side has reclining seats. However, if you're seeing a movie there, your ticket costs more than usual because of the feature. There are even theatres that have a full restaurant menu of food that you can order and have brought directly to your seat. There's one in Brooklyn called the Nitehawk. However, I was watching a program on the Food Network a good long while ago about movie theatre concessions. They mentioned a theatre with the same concept as Nitehawk but I believer it was in Dallas.
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#16Going to the movies as a kid
Posted: 9/1/16 at 8:21am
Might it be Alamo Drafthouse? They also deliver food and drink to your seat during the movie. I went to a movie there while visiting a friend in Houston, and the service was surprisingly unobtrusive!
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