My very first encounters with the Vista Theater happened back in the early 1960’s. A bunch of my college friends and myself would get all boozed up and hit the late night porn flicks at the Vista. They were pretty tame by today’s standards, featuring the likes of the immortal “Temptest Storm” with her spinning pasties. It was enough to send a pack of over sexed college boys into a midnight trance.
In a later era we use to go and watch the arty flicks at the Vista with dates that talked about Bergman and James Joyce. I think I like old “Tempest” better. The place was kind of run down, and a Bergman film is depressing enough.
I rediscovered the Vista in the year 2000, when I took a bunch of my 12 Step recovery buddies to see the Russell Crowe spectacular: “Gladiator.” They were a bunch of thugs, fresh out of prison from drugs, in a program called IMPACT. They had never seen anything like it.
My retirement from 39 years of government and military service, has been blessed by this old movie buff seeing such films from “De Lovely” last year to “Sin City” this year. It is the great bargain in town with senior prices at $4.00 a head. Tomorrow, my friend Trip and I are going to see the new Star Wars.
Check out my photos and writings on my AOL profile: Also, my new web page: http://hometown.aol.com/michaelcunniff/
My very first encounters with the Vista Theater happened back in the early 1960’s. A bunch of my college friends and myself would get all boozed up and hit the late night porn flicks at the Vista. They were pretty tame by today’s standards, featuring the likes of the immortal “Temptest Storm” with her spinning pasties. It was enough to send a pack of over sexed college boys into a midnight trance.
In a later era we use to go and watch the arty flicks at the Vista with dates that talked about Bergman and James Joyce. I think I like old “Tempest” better. The place was kind of run down, and a Bergman film is depressing enough.
I rediscovered the Vista in the year 2000, when I took a bunch of my 12 Step recovery buddies to see the Russell Crowe spectacular: “Gladiator.” They were a bunch of thugs, fresh out of prison from drugs, in a program called IMPACT. They had never seen anything like it.
My retirement from 39 years of government and military service, has been blessed by this old movie buff seeing such films from “De Lovely” last year to “Sin City” this year. It is the great bargain in town with senior prices at $4.00 a head. Tomorrow, my friend Trip and I are going to see the new Star Wars.
Check out my photos and writings on my AOL profile: Also, my new web page: http://hometown.aol.com/michaelcunniff/