Saw many great mid-70’s movies during the 1 dollar admission days; double bill of West Side Story and The Missouri Breaks; Little Big Man and Hard Times; Chinatown and The Parallax View; Godfather Part II; Towering Inferno; all you had to do was wait a couple of weeks after first run and the same movie would turn up for a dollar at Cinema 19.
That was the beginning of it’s downfall, I guess. One time while watching a double bill of Marathon Man and Black Sunday, somebody had a portable tv and was watching a World Series game. It wasn’t even the Phillies.
Saw Star Wars, Barry Lyndon, and The Deer Hunter there. For 70mm, it did seem small compared to the Boyd.
I just remember the then-new Dolby Stereo during the space battles in Star Wars and, yeah, it rocked!
I remember some the dollar movies i saw there: Papillon, Patton, The Passenger, Five Easy Pieces are only a few that come to mind; it was right down the street from Cinema 19, which also had dollar movies too. Back in the mid to late 1970’s it was a great time to go to the movies.
Hey Veyoung52
I spent many an afternoon at the Locust during the mid to late 1960’s. On Saturdays they had 3 features for the price of one. The first movie they would only show once,
then there was the regular double feature. But the first movie was always something like The Great Escape or Guns of Navarone or some other big blockbuster of the time.
The Locust didn’t do those cheapie horror flicks and spaghetti westerns on Saturdays like the Nixon and Capitol did, it was always the big hollywood action flick, and i was totally into it.
I thought the Wilson premier was in Zanuck’s hometown of Wahoo, Nebraska.
Saw many great mid-70’s movies during the 1 dollar admission days; double bill of West Side Story and The Missouri Breaks; Little Big Man and Hard Times; Chinatown and The Parallax View; Godfather Part II; Towering Inferno; all you had to do was wait a couple of weeks after first run and the same movie would turn up for a dollar at Cinema 19. That was the beginning of it’s downfall, I guess. One time while watching a double bill of Marathon Man and Black Sunday, somebody had a portable tv and was watching a World Series game. It wasn’t even the Phillies.
Saw Star Wars, Barry Lyndon, and The Deer Hunter there. For 70mm, it did seem small compared to the Boyd. I just remember the then-new Dolby Stereo during the space battles in Star Wars and, yeah, it rocked!
I remember some the dollar movies i saw there: Papillon, Patton, The Passenger, Five Easy Pieces are only a few that come to mind; it was right down the street from Cinema 19, which also had dollar movies too. Back in the mid to late 1970’s it was a great time to go to the movies.
Hey Veyoung52 I spent many an afternoon at the Locust during the mid to late 1960’s. On Saturdays they had 3 features for the price of one. The first movie they would only show once, then there was the regular double feature. But the first movie was always something like The Great Escape or Guns of Navarone or some other big blockbuster of the time. The Locust didn’t do those cheapie horror flicks and spaghetti westerns on Saturdays like the Nixon and Capitol did, it was always the big hollywood action flick, and i was totally into it.