The ‘Palled’ then was a Mecca of popular culture for those in quest of glamour, spectacle and entertainment. It not only served adults but also each Saturday afternoon the foot stamping, whistling progeny of Pwllheli and its surrounding district who raucously vented their encouragement or disapproval as a pacey action of a cowboy film or weekly serial unfolded. It was the exhilarating highlight of my week and nothing short of being bedridden would have kept me from cycling from nearby Efailnewydd to sit in those plush seats, savour the charged atmosphere in that darkened auditorium and be transported to fantasy land. It also served the occasional educational role, I remember a school trip to see the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing also Vivian Fuchs’s successful South Polar Expedition.
The ‘Palled’ then was a Mecca of popular culture for those in quest of glamour, spectacle and entertainment. It not only served adults but also each Saturday afternoon the foot stamping, whistling progeny of Pwllheli and its surrounding district who raucously vented their encouragement or disapproval as a pacey action of a cowboy film or weekly serial unfolded. It was the exhilarating highlight of my week and nothing short of being bedridden would have kept me from cycling from nearby Efailnewydd to sit in those plush seats, savour the charged atmosphere in that darkened auditorium and be transported to fantasy land. It also served the occasional educational role, I remember a school trip to see the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing also Vivian Fuchs’s successful South Polar Expedition.