The Mines was not part of wesco in 1963. It was privately owned by my family from 1960 to 1976, Mohesky then Heye due to a divorce. I worked there my entire childhood. After selling the new owner was unable to make it and went under. There was a laundromat next to the theater and then the Colorado Bar next to it in the vacant lot to the east still there when I left in 1976 and now a park. The upstairs was burned out in a fire before we bought it. Popcorn was 5 or 15 cents coke, 7 up or Dr. Pepper was 15 or 20 cents. Candy was 5 or 10 cents with 3 or 4 expensive ones for 15 cents. We had ice cream, pickles, polish sausages and beef jerky as well. Admission was around $1.00 and 50 cents for kids I don’t remember as much as I worked the concession stand.
That makes sense my mother told me they bought the business first, then the building, she was quite the entrepreneur.
The Mines was not part of wesco in 1963. It was privately owned by my family from 1960 to 1976, Mohesky then Heye due to a divorce. I worked there my entire childhood. After selling the new owner was unable to make it and went under. There was a laundromat next to the theater and then the Colorado Bar next to it in the vacant lot to the east still there when I left in 1976 and now a park. The upstairs was burned out in a fire before we bought it. Popcorn was 5 or 15 cents coke, 7 up or Dr. Pepper was 15 or 20 cents. Candy was 5 or 10 cents with 3 or 4 expensive ones for 15 cents. We had ice cream, pickles, polish sausages and beef jerky as well. Admission was around $1.00 and 50 cents for kids I don’t remember as much as I worked the concession stand.