Jtv: You know, as soon as I read that I remembered. There was that old fashioned Jack in the Box head at the order box. In my minds eye it was life-size. I used to love the strange little tacos they sold; I tried some recently in Tulsa, OK and they are close, but no cigar. Nostalgia just can’t be relived.
My brother worked here during the late 1960’s and I can remember getting to go with my dad to pick him up at night after the last show. It was beautifully lit and and the inside screen, from my 7-8 y.o. mind’s memory, was enormous.
In the mid 1960’s my older sister and brother tried to convince me to lick a 9 volt battery and when they finally did, I screamed like a banshee and my dad made my siblings, as punishment, take me to the Sat. pm matinee' of the movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster at the Tower. It was my first movie theatre experience. They had to spend all of both of their allowances on me that day. I was probably 4 or 5. We lived within walking distance so I remember the walk, the tall walls and carpeted floors, smell of the popcorn, and Godzilla fighting with Ghidorah and throwing him off the cliff. There was a great place to eat across the street called The Griddle System. When they tore the Tower down they put a 7-11 and a Jack in the Box in its place.
Jtv: You know, as soon as I read that I remembered. There was that old fashioned Jack in the Box head at the order box. In my minds eye it was life-size. I used to love the strange little tacos they sold; I tried some recently in Tulsa, OK and they are close, but no cigar. Nostalgia just can’t be relived.
My brother worked here during the late 1960’s and I can remember getting to go with my dad to pick him up at night after the last show. It was beautifully lit and and the inside screen, from my 7-8 y.o. mind’s memory, was enormous.
In the mid 1960’s my older sister and brother tried to convince me to lick a 9 volt battery and when they finally did, I screamed like a banshee and my dad made my siblings, as punishment, take me to the Sat. pm matinee' of the movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster at the Tower. It was my first movie theatre experience. They had to spend all of both of their allowances on me that day. I was probably 4 or 5. We lived within walking distance so I remember the walk, the tall walls and carpeted floors, smell of the popcorn, and Godzilla fighting with Ghidorah and throwing him off the cliff. There was a great place to eat across the street called The Griddle System. When they tore the Tower down they put a 7-11 and a Jack in the Box in its place.