Excellent memory wsaucier! Your description brought back memories I thought were long gone…and brought tears to my eyes. I vaguely remember going to Woolworths for a banana split. I wish my memory was better but thanks to having to take propranolol for so many years, I’m losing more and more of them. Keep posting your memories, please!! What high school did you go to and what years? I went to GEHS 66-68, then moved to CA for my senior year and graduated there 1969.
I worked summers at the Paramount in 1966/67 when I was a teenager. I was paid 50 cents per hour (12 hour shift from 11am to 11pm) plus taxi fare home each night. I remember when the movie “This Property is Condemned” was filmed locally and premiered at the Paramount. What an elegant old theater that was, even though it was already at least 45 years old when I worked there! I’m sad it was demolished but even had it stood up to Hurricane Frederic, it would surely have fallen to that wicked Hurricane Katrina. Thank you so much for posting this history of the Paramount Theater, Wayne.
Excellent memory wsaucier! Your description brought back memories I thought were long gone…and brought tears to my eyes. I vaguely remember going to Woolworths for a banana split. I wish my memory was better but thanks to having to take propranolol for so many years, I’m losing more and more of them. Keep posting your memories, please!! What high school did you go to and what years? I went to GEHS 66-68, then moved to CA for my senior year and graduated there 1969.
I worked summers at the Paramount in 1966/67 when I was a teenager. I was paid 50 cents per hour (12 hour shift from 11am to 11pm) plus taxi fare home each night. I remember when the movie “This Property is Condemned” was filmed locally and premiered at the Paramount. What an elegant old theater that was, even though it was already at least 45 years old when I worked there! I’m sad it was demolished but even had it stood up to Hurricane Frederic, it would surely have fallen to that wicked Hurricane Katrina. Thank you so much for posting this history of the Paramount Theater, Wayne.