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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 11:52:20 GMT
This is a old Art deco’ Cinema I used to frequent as a kid! Absolutely loved this place and have seen so many films here years ago, before it sadly closed down. I know things can’t stay the same forever, but I find it quiet painful when these iconic places, especially this one, close down. A couple of films as examples I remember seeing, just like yesterday, were Hooper’ with Burt Reynolds, the year was 1978’ when I was 10, it was a Saturday afternoon! the showing I remember cost 55p I was there with my friends and i recall it being absolutely packed out with kids and popcorn being chucked everywhere, next was on my 13th Birthday in 1981’ in the evening with parents watching Flash Gordon. The cinema was just ace inside, quiet dimly lit, a little bar as you walked in, then where the actual screen was it was a lot of red velvet on the old fashioned seats that tipped forward and were quiet uncomfortable after a while and also weren’t very wide, then they were the distinctive Pearl & Dean advert, and then intermission would flash up half way through the movie, the velvet curtains would then be drawn, people would leave their seats to join the que for the ice cream seller! I would either have a ice cream, bit like a choc ice But was just plain which once ya pulled the rapper off you then placed it between two wafers’ or then they was the alternative were fruit pastilles’ Fruit gums’ or smarties’ which I remember in the 70s and at cinemas, they came in a different format than usual and were in boxes, shaped like cigarette packets, but were obviously slightly larger and when you opened them they were like waxed grease paper inside lol! Anyway hope you can read the small print of this article, it’s quite interesting, I do hope that the outside of the building will at least be kept the same but I’m doubtful. Anyway I’ll be interested to hear other forum members’ memories of old quirky cinemas near You! that were once So familiar to you to! Happy days ha!
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Post by Cartman on May 25, 2020 17:43:58 GMT
I used to like the Mayfair at Whitefield and the Odeon in Bury. Remember seeing some great films there at both of them. Grease, Saturday Night Fever amongst others
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Post by Three Litre on May 25, 2020 17:53:05 GMT
I used to like the Mayfair at Whitefield and the Odeon in Bury. Remember seeing some great films there at both of them. Grease, Saturday Night Fever amongst others cinematreasures.org/theaters/2750
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 18:39:50 GMT
I used to like the Mayfair at Whitefield and the Odeon in Bury. Remember seeing some great films there at both of them. Grease, Saturday Night Fever amongst others I vaguely remember the odeon in Bury. It’s such a shame these places have to close! It probably always comes down to money, as well as there being bigger more centralised Cinemas opening up like Warner Brothers’ and the sort ya see on industrial estates, where these types of places for one can accommodate more people and charge more to watch a film and also probably make a lot more profit, on confectionary and fizzy drinks then the likes of the old quirky Cinemas previously mentioned, and also maybe where these narrow profit margins between these types of cinemas were made worse when VHS recorders and video shops got going in the early 80s! followed by dvd! all of which I still would prefer instead of Netflix..
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Post by John Steed on May 25, 2020 20:11:51 GMT
I know where that Cinema building is GC as my sister lives in nearby Bacup and I regularly drive through Rawtenstall. I know of at least 3 old cinemas in my area which are now Wetherspoon's pubs but at least they haven't been bulldozed. It's a terrible shame but the large multi-screen complexes have put these old 2 or 3 screen cinemas out of business Steed
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Post by B16YUG on May 25, 2020 20:28:27 GMT
I've been to the Electric Cinema in Notting Hill a few times - only has the capacity of about 80 seats - great that you can enjoy drinks whilst watching a great film though! www.electriccinema.co.uk/ Recommend visiting when we get back to normal - I can imagine they would love the trade too!
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Post by Del Boy on May 25, 2020 20:45:01 GMT
They recently demolished my towns 20s art deco cinema. It was a bingo hall and they sold it to Lidl's. Such a shame.
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Post by Three Litre on May 25, 2020 20:47:05 GMT
They recently demolished my towns 20s art deco cinema. It was a bingo hall and they sold it to Lidl's. Such a shame. Criminal. It's all about money, as usual. The attractive older cinemas can't get the bums per square metre that the modern ones can, or they sell them to supermarkets.
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Post by Sam Tyler on May 25, 2020 21:46:23 GMT
Sadly the cinema that Annie and I used to go to at Staines before we got hitched was demolished years ago. A large, brick built cinema with originally just one screen, it was bought out by ABC cinemas and converted into three screens. It can be seen in this link >>> HERE <<< and interesting to me that the picture was taken only four months after Annie and I had started dating and when we'd just about finished our final year at school. Although briefly and from a distance, the back of the cinema did appear in The Sweeney episode The Placer (shown here just in front of the Bedford van) Sam.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 22:40:48 GMT
Cartman this is the one in Bury ya mentioned! I love the design, and again seems similar to the Rawtenstall one, maybe typical style of the period! But yeah as previously mentioned, it’s absolutely criminal knocking these places down, winds me up. I remember going to this one every week in the late 80s early 90s on a Monday night! When it was a night club. It was quite popular then since it was cheap so was handy when ya were skint from the weekend. Monday night ya got given your own personal plastic glass to keep all night, then it was just 10p a pint! Lol yeah it was watered down but who cared! Still I wished I could have gone there when it was a cinema! Definitely one of many, for a time machine!
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