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Cinema Ion
Aug 18, 2014 at 11:22 pm
In the late 1940s the admission to the plaza theather in fall river ma was 14cents on a saturday afternoon.
Your price of admission would let yoe see to main featured B movies, mostly cowboys in the afternoon for the kids. Along with the movies you got a number stub
for the old mens races on the big screen. if your number corresponded with the number of the race you
won a free candy bay for that day and free admission
for the next week but you had to pay the tax(about 4 cents).Then they showed 5 cartoones, a news reel, comming attractions and finally the cowboy movies.
Paul (RED)the cop ran the show. He would go up and down the isles looking for what he though were trouble makers and would shine his flaslight at their seat and yell" hey you with the double bubble in your mouth
get your feet of the furniture"SEATS.In response we would chant his name Paul,Paul, Paul which got him more upset, and before leaving the show we made sure we stuck a wad of gum under the seat so we thought Paul the cop would see. Saturday the Plaza was packed with kids going crazy for the good guys in the movie
and booing the bad guys.Looking back at the plaza experience Paul must have had a passion for that
kids hell on saturday I mean every saturday because he was there every week to keep us on our toes. They also
showed movies for grown ups in the afternoon and evening and dish nite was tuesday nights. the old gentelman who sold the cand was called “pop"by the kids
but I fogot the girs mane who sold the admission tickets. All in all it was a great experience my parents sent my to a affortable theather ,got us out of the house and since I lived only 10 minutes (down below the hill) away they new what time I would be home. I tell my kids that my wife and I were luckly to be brought up in the 40s, 50, and 60s.
In the late 1940s the admission to the plaza theather in fall river ma was 14cents on a saturday afternoon. Your price of admission would let yoe see to main featured B movies, mostly cowboys in the afternoon for the kids. Along with the movies you got a number stub for the old mens races on the big screen. if your number corresponded with the number of the race you
won a free candy bay for that day and free admission for the next week but you had to pay the tax(about 4 cents).Then they showed 5 cartoones, a news reel, comming attractions and finally the cowboy movies. Paul (RED)the cop ran the show. He would go up and down the isles looking for what he though were trouble makers and would shine his flaslight at their seat and yell" hey you with the double bubble in your mouth get your feet of the furniture"SEATS.In response we would chant his name Paul,Paul, Paul which got him more upset, and before leaving the show we made sure we stuck a wad of gum under the seat so we thought Paul the cop would see. Saturday the Plaza was packed with kids going crazy for the good guys in the movie and booing the bad guys.Looking back at the plaza experience Paul must have had a passion for that kids hell on saturday I mean every saturday because he was there every week to keep us on our toes. They also showed movies for grown ups in the afternoon and evening and dish nite was tuesday nights. the old gentelman who sold the cand was called “pop"by the kids but I fogot the girs mane who sold the admission tickets. All in all it was a great experience my parents sent my to a affortable theather ,got us out of the house and since I lived only 10 minutes (down below the hill) away they new what time I would be home. I tell my kids that my wife and I were luckly to be brought up in the 40s, 50, and 60s.