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Mon Jul-25-05 05:46 PM
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Age check - ever been to a movie theater with a balcony? |
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And when was the last time?
I'm sure there are a few still around that have been restored.
Me: Yes, about 1973 - but the balcony was closed.
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:47 PM
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1. worked in two of them. |
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:48 PM
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It was around 81-82...i was 5 or 6
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:50 PM
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There was one in the town I grew up in.
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:50 PM
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The York and the Mercury. And there was a stage behind the screen. It turned me into a theater snob. Can't stand the multi-plex bullshit.
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:51 PM
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Not saying where, not saying when
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:54 PM
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6. lots of newer theaters have them too |
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amc in japantown, san fran has one
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:55 PM
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7. Yes, first row in the balcony is the best seat in the house... |
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and I have been to many theaters with balconies but can't remember when the last time was.
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:56 PM
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8. When I was coming up, the balcony was for black people only |
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and the main floor was for the whites. How many y'all seen that?
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:56 PM
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9. Of course...I remember movie theater balconies quite well. |
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:57 PM
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10. Yup, what year did Close Encounters come out? That was the last |
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Edited on Mon Jul-25-05 05:57 PM by ET Awful
time I can clearly remember being at a theater with a balcony.
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Mon Jul-25-05 05:59 PM
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11. I saw Airplane in one |
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in NYC in the early 80s. People could smoke up there. It was pretty weird.
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:01 PM
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12. As a kid in the old Plaza theater in Texas. nt |
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Edited on Mon Jul-25-05 06:02 PM by OhioBlues
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:03 PM
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then, in teh 70's it seemed many old theaters either close doutright or converted the balcony into a separate small theater.
Now a few have been restored.
I miss 'em. It was teenage make-out territory . . .
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:06 PM
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I grew up near a theater with a balcony. Unfortunately, during the 70s, it went multiplex and the balcony was torn out.
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:14 PM
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The balcony was open. That theater was later multiplexed and I haven't gone there since.
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:17 PM
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I began going to the movies in the 1960s.
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:19 PM
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17. Oh yeah. This one time Warren Simpson...? |
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He was my nutty buddy. Went to the Alabama Theater (Mentioned in another thread...very swank) with a rubber hot water bottle (before the era of plastic baggies) full of Campbell's Vegetarian Vegetable Soup under his jacket.
Sat in the balcony. At a crucial part of the movie, he leaned over the balcony rail, went "URRRGGGHHH", and poured the soup on the audience below.
Absolute panic and mayhem ensued. It was very dark, especially in the balcony, and he wasn't caught. He was a nut. RIP, Warren.
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Mon Jul-25-05 06:46 PM
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18. Uptown theater in DC has always had one |
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Mon Jul-25-05 07:08 PM
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Last time was a few weeks ago at the BAM Rose in Brooklyn.
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