I saw movies there when I was a child living in Waco between 1984 and 85'(I was 8 and then 9) . I recall seeing PLACES IN THE HEART there in the Summer on a dark and stormy night with my mom and brother. I saw THE NEVERENDING STORY with my family and I remember that theater auditorium being packed that night with rowdy teenagers and children and then the movie started and they all lost themselves in it. Everyone shut up. I remember seeing MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME at a quiet matinee during the Summer of 85'. It was just me, my dad and my brother and maybe one other person was in there. But I remember something being wrong with the image and wondering if it was just me. My dad had worked at theaters before and he leaned over and whispered, “They forgot to put on the Anamorphic lens.I will be right back.” He rushed off and came back and the image widened to it’s proper 2:35:1 scope aspect ratio and I was swept away.
I remember it being a tiny theater. And yes the snack bar was in between the two screens.
But I always wish I had a Diamond Point theater in walking distance from where I live.
My father is Jim Bolinger. I don’t think he worked there by 1980 because we ended up moving away from Waco by then. I do remember a guy named Lee that worked there at the time. He must’ve been 18 or so. He used to make me laugh. I have many fond memories of the Ivy Twin from that time period. :)
Correction that second photo is not from 1984 but 1985. I went here in the fall of 1987 with my family when I was 11 to see a double feature of THE LOST BOYS and WITCHES OF EASTWICK. The sound was off an AM radio station. But it was fun!
My father was a manager at the Ivy Twin around the summer and fall of 1979 when they ran STAR WARS in re-release. I was 3 or 4 but I remember him running it for me before the matinee started. He ran MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL on both screens(with one print) for the midnight movie. I remember watching MEATBALLS there too. He said that when he showed ROCKY II there that the film got chewed up in the projector and he had to splice back together the last reel himself.
I saw movies there when I was a child living in Waco between 1984 and 85'(I was 8 and then 9) . I recall seeing PLACES IN THE HEART there in the Summer on a dark and stormy night with my mom and brother. I saw THE NEVERENDING STORY with my family and I remember that theater auditorium being packed that night with rowdy teenagers and children and then the movie started and they all lost themselves in it. Everyone shut up. I remember seeing MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME at a quiet matinee during the Summer of 85'. It was just me, my dad and my brother and maybe one other person was in there. But I remember something being wrong with the image and wondering if it was just me. My dad had worked at theaters before and he leaned over and whispered, “They forgot to put on the Anamorphic lens.I will be right back.” He rushed off and came back and the image widened to it’s proper 2:35:1 scope aspect ratio and I was swept away.
I remember it being a tiny theater. And yes the snack bar was in between the two screens.
But I always wish I had a Diamond Point theater in walking distance from where I live.
Wow!
My father is Jim Bolinger. I don’t think he worked there by 1980 because we ended up moving away from Waco by then. I do remember a guy named Lee that worked there at the time. He must’ve been 18 or so. He used to make me laugh. I have many fond memories of the Ivy Twin from that time period. :)
Correction that second photo is not from 1984 but 1985. I went here in the fall of 1987 with my family when I was 11 to see a double feature of THE LOST BOYS and WITCHES OF EASTWICK. The sound was off an AM radio station. But it was fun!
My father was a manager at the Ivy Twin around the summer and fall of 1979 when they ran STAR WARS in re-release. I was 3 or 4 but I remember him running it for me before the matinee started. He ran MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL on both screens(with one print) for the midnight movie. I remember watching MEATBALLS there too. He said that when he showed ROCKY II there that the film got chewed up in the projector and he had to splice back together the last reel himself.