I remember Viers Mill movie theater quite well. Born in 1947, yeah..I’m a geezer, I grew up in Wheaton on Edwin St. On Saturdays my mother would hand my older brother and I 50 cents each and off we’d go to the theater. Walking from Edwin St…Dalewood Dr, cut across Connecticut Ave, up “Suicide Hill”, (where the apartments are now that border Connecticut Ave and Viers Mill Road, to Viers Mill Village, now called Randolph Crossing, Huh??? Where did that name come from. That little shopping center had everything…a liquor store, where I was caught shop lifting, and getting a free ride home in a Monkey County cop car. The hardware store was awesome..you could buy a rool of fuse materal….light it off..!!! We’d go into the Rexall Drug Store and buy candy…candy was cheaper there the in the theater, and sneak it into the theather. It was a lot easier to sneak candy in during the winter months…big coats and all. I can’t tell you how many Godzilla, Rodan, movies I saw there..or the SciFi movies, Invaders From mars, The Mysterions…There was always a double feature on Saturday…you could walk in at any time, and stay all day. No one came in and told ya, ya had to leave. We’d sit and watch the movies twice. Then, if I remember correctly about 4:00PM the lights would come one, and we’d have to leave so the place could be cleaned and readied for the evening movie..always the hit of the day…Sink The Bismark, Strategic Air Command…etc. We’d leave the theater go across the street to The Plantation, where the McDonalds is now, and get an ice cream cone and off to home we’d go.
Yeah…that theater was awesome…even if the seats were uncomfortable as heck…and the big scary Janus kind of guy out front.
I remember Viers Mill movie theater quite well. Born in 1947, yeah..I’m a geezer, I grew up in Wheaton on Edwin St. On Saturdays my mother would hand my older brother and I 50 cents each and off we’d go to the theater. Walking from Edwin St…Dalewood Dr, cut across Connecticut Ave, up “Suicide Hill”, (where the apartments are now that border Connecticut Ave and Viers Mill Road, to Viers Mill Village, now called Randolph Crossing, Huh??? Where did that name come from. That little shopping center had everything…a liquor store, where I was caught shop lifting, and getting a free ride home in a Monkey County cop car. The hardware store was awesome..you could buy a rool of fuse materal….light it off..!!! We’d go into the Rexall Drug Store and buy candy…candy was cheaper there the in the theater, and sneak it into the theather. It was a lot easier to sneak candy in during the winter months…big coats and all. I can’t tell you how many Godzilla, Rodan, movies I saw there..or the SciFi movies, Invaders From mars, The Mysterions…There was always a double feature on Saturday…you could walk in at any time, and stay all day. No one came in and told ya, ya had to leave. We’d sit and watch the movies twice. Then, if I remember correctly about 4:00PM the lights would come one, and we’d have to leave so the place could be cleaned and readied for the evening movie..always the hit of the day…Sink The Bismark, Strategic Air Command…etc. We’d leave the theater go across the street to The Plantation, where the McDonalds is now, and get an ice cream cone and off to home we’d go.
Yeah…that theater was awesome…even if the seats were uncomfortable as heck…and the big scary Janus kind of guy out front.