This was my neighborhood movie house when I was a kid in the late 50’s and early 60’s. When I was about five I saw SNOW WHITE from a little bench in the projection booth because a friend’s father was either the manager or the projectionist — can’t remember which. At the local Dairy Queen, if you bought a Dilly Bar and got lucky, you found a free pass to the DuPage imprinted on your Dilly Bar stick. I remember “watching” HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL in terror from under my seat while my sister narrated the action. I also seem to recall one of those glowing radium clocks down to the left of the screen.
From 1970 to 1976 (the years I lived in Muncie), the Strand ran a lot of United Artists product including the Bond films. I remember seeing a sold out DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER where the management was selling SRO tickets and setting up folding chairs in the aisles and back of the house!
This was my neighborhood movie house when I was a kid in the late 50’s and early 60’s. When I was about five I saw SNOW WHITE from a little bench in the projection booth because a friend’s father was either the manager or the projectionist — can’t remember which. At the local Dairy Queen, if you bought a Dilly Bar and got lucky, you found a free pass to the DuPage imprinted on your Dilly Bar stick. I remember “watching” HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL in terror from under my seat while my sister narrated the action. I also seem to recall one of those glowing radium clocks down to the left of the screen.
Great creaky old house where I saw FIVE EASY PIECES, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, BILLY JACK and countless other 70’s films, usually from the balcony.
From 1970 to 1976 (the years I lived in Muncie), the Strand ran a lot of United Artists product including the Bond films. I remember seeing a sold out DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER where the management was selling SRO tickets and setting up folding chairs in the aisles and back of the house!
Can’t remember. Is this the 8th Avenue theater that for years advertised “New Projector” on its marquee?