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Good one, temazepm. I had forgotten about movie theater ushers. Some of those old movie theaters looked like palaces on the inside. I was always awed by the velvet curtains, too.
Good one, temazepm. I had forgotten about movie theater ushers. Some of those old movie theaters looked like palaces on the inside. I was always awed by the velvet curtains, too.
Oh me too. The have rejuvenated some of the old theatres in the Winnipeg and they are beautiful. Nothing sterile and boring about them at all. I too remember ushers. Usually high school kids making some extra spending money.
Yeah, it was great when we had proper movie houses in the centre of town, not like
now, in the middle of nowhere with 12 screens all showing rubbish. When I was a kid,
my hometown had six cinemas.The Astoria, The Victory, The Empire, The Kings, The
Odeon, and the ABC. My dad told me during the second world war, there was more
like 20. Lots of small cinemas in neighbourhoods. You got a second feature, a newsreel,
a cartoon, and the main film. Before the main film, a lady used to walk down near to the
screen with a tray supported round her neck, full of icecream and orange juice. I used
to like the Empire which had double seats for you and a girl! There was a plaque in the
foyer of the Empire than said Charlie Chaplin had performed there early in the century
when it was a music hall, before, of course, he went to America.
I not only remember Looney Toons cartoons, I remember Merrie Melodies.
People on here mention push-button lightswitches, but I've never seen them. I've been in homes dating back to the late 1800s to WWI era, and they had the flip style switches.
Now thats funny. I remember when they sold cigarettes in machines.
I remember when there was no white out, you had those little white sheets you had to back up the typewriter and type over this white paper the same letter that was a mistake to blot it out.
Those little white sheets were neater that "White Out" or "Liquid Paper" (which gummed up pretty quickly in their bottles, and required "thinner").
I remember OJ Beauty Lotion. When I was around six, my friend's Mom had it on her dresser and I asked what it was for. She said to erase freckles. Boy I couldn't wait until I was old enough to buy some for me, to erase my freckles. By the time I got old enough to buy it, they quit making it. Fortunately my freckles had disappeared by then.
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