I saw so many movies (well, including the Star Wars trilogy) so many times, I had my favorite seat. I’d run in there as fast as I could and sit e x a c t l y under the dome’s middle circle – claiming it to be the best seat. I remember not really liking the curvature of the screen though. It distorted the movies. Only months later did I see Star Wars on a flatter screen and realized the opening “crawl” wasn’t curved – like it looked on the UA 150’s screen.
On one occasion, some friends and I were there watching a movie (I can’t for the life of me remember which one) and a fight broke out in the upper tiers. The movie stopped, the lights came on, and the cops showed up and arrested the fighters! Everybody cheered. Then, I started to chant; “RE-WIND! RE-WIND! RE-WIND!” Most of the theater chanted with me, and when the chant winded down, I added: “AND THE PREVIEWS TOO!” generating a theater full of laughs. They didn’t rewind the movie (probably impossible with the tray system) but it was a funny moment that I’ll never forget. :)
“The first ‘Star Wars’ never ran 24 hours a day! I attended the film MANY times in ‘77/'78 and the showtimes were 1:45pm, 4:30, 7:15 and 10:00pm only. ”
So sorry, and I’m not trying to be insulting, but I’ll never forget that the Cinema 150 showed Star Wars “Round the clock” every three hours. 7:00(PM), 10:00(PM), 1:00(AM) 4:00(AM) 7:00(AM) 10:00(AM) 1:00(PM) 4:00(PM).
I saw this movie on my ninth birthday (June 1977) and was such a Star Wars freak, I would look up everything I possibly could on the subject. Including looking at my Dad’s newspaper every week just to see the showtimes. And again, they were as I showed above. For OVER a year.
Years later, they were showing “Star Wars” and “The Empire Strikes Back” across the street at the King Theater (now a church?) and my friends and I saw those two, then “Return of the Jedi” at the 150. Took all day! (With a break for lunch at the cool modern McDonalds) Ahh, the days.
“The first ‘Star Wars’ never ran 24 hours a day! I attended the film MANY times in ‘77/'78 and the showtimes were 1:45pm, 4:30, 7:15 and 10:00pm only. ”
So sorry, and I’m not trying to be insulting, but I’ll never forget that the Cinema 150 showed Star Wars “Round the clock” every three hours. 7:00(PM), 10:00(PM), 1:00(AM) 4:00(AM) 7:00(AM) 10:00(AM) 1:00(PM) 4:00(PM).
I saw this movie on my ninth birthday (June 1977) and was such a Star Wars freak, I would look up everything I possibly could on the subject. Including looking at my Dad’s newspaper every week just to see the showtimes. And again, they were as I showed above. For OVER a year.
Years later, they were showing “Star Wars” and “The Empire Strikes Back” across the street at the King Theater (now a church?) and my friends and I saw those two, then “Return of the Jedi” at the 150. Took all day! (With a break for lunch at the cool modern McDonalds) Ahh, the days.
I saw so many movies (well, including the Star Wars trilogy) so many times, I had my favorite seat. I’d run in there as fast as I could and sit e x a c t l y under the dome’s middle circle – claiming it to be the best seat. I remember not really liking the curvature of the screen though. It distorted the movies. Only months later did I see Star Wars on a flatter screen and realized the opening “crawl” wasn’t curved – like it looked on the UA 150’s screen.
On one occasion, some friends and I were there watching a movie (I can’t for the life of me remember which one) and a fight broke out in the upper tiers. The movie stopped, the lights came on, and the cops showed up and arrested the fighters! Everybody cheered. Then, I started to chant; “RE-WIND! RE-WIND! RE-WIND!” Most of the theater chanted with me, and when the chant winded down, I added: “AND THE PREVIEWS TOO!” generating a theater full of laughs. They didn’t rewind the movie (probably impossible with the tray system) but it was a funny moment that I’ll never forget. :)
“The first ‘Star Wars’ never ran 24 hours a day! I attended the film MANY times in ‘77/'78 and the showtimes were 1:45pm, 4:30, 7:15 and 10:00pm only. ”
So sorry, and I’m not trying to be insulting, but I’ll never forget that the Cinema 150 showed Star Wars “Round the clock” every three hours. 7:00(PM), 10:00(PM), 1:00(AM) 4:00(AM) 7:00(AM) 10:00(AM) 1:00(PM) 4:00(PM).
I saw this movie on my ninth birthday (June 1977) and was such a Star Wars freak, I would look up everything I possibly could on the subject. Including looking at my Dad’s newspaper every week just to see the showtimes. And again, they were as I showed above. For OVER a year.
Years later, they were showing “Star Wars” and “The Empire Strikes Back” across the street at the King Theater (now a church?) and my friends and I saw those two, then “Return of the Jedi” at the 150. Took all day! (With a break for lunch at the cool modern McDonalds) Ahh, the days.
“The first ‘Star Wars’ never ran 24 hours a day! I attended the film MANY times in ‘77/'78 and the showtimes were 1:45pm, 4:30, 7:15 and 10:00pm only. ”
So sorry, and I’m not trying to be insulting, but I’ll never forget that the Cinema 150 showed Star Wars “Round the clock” every three hours. 7:00(PM), 10:00(PM), 1:00(AM) 4:00(AM) 7:00(AM) 10:00(AM) 1:00(PM) 4:00(PM).
I saw this movie on my ninth birthday (June 1977) and was such a Star Wars freak, I would look up everything I possibly could on the subject. Including looking at my Dad’s newspaper every week just to see the showtimes. And again, they were as I showed above. For OVER a year.
Years later, they were showing “Star Wars” and “The Empire Strikes Back” across the street at the King Theater (now a church?) and my friends and I saw those two, then “Return of the Jedi” at the 150. Took all day! (With a break for lunch at the cool modern McDonalds) Ahh, the days.