I remember going to help with my brothers. I would have been 8 or 9 because we moved to Toronto when I was 10. (in 1959) My Aunt Ruth (Rappaport) usually was in the ticket booth. My grandmother Fanny Siegel (nee Rappaport) was always busy running all over the theater…sometimes she would be in the ticket booth or concession or taking tickets when people came in. My grandfather Jack Siegel(his real name was Jacob) usually took tickets when the people came into the theater. My Aunt Sara Weil (nee Rappaport) always manned the concession stand. The projectionists name was Norm. He was a strange kinda guy (but remember I was only 8 or 9.
There was an office upstairs next to the projection booth..and it had a huge glass window so if we wanted to sit in the office and watch the movie we could..but we had privlidges. On some Saturday they had kids matinees and they would pack the kids in there…there were even kids sitting on the floor in aisles to watch the movies. Today that would never happen for saftey reasons. My brothers and I got all the free popcorn w wanted, but my Aunt wanted to save money so for us she put the popcorn in a clean box lined with napkins and filled it with popcorn and we always wanted extra butter…which she hated giving us…because we didn’t have to pay. I remember my grandfather would go over o the fire hall across the street and play checkers with the firemen…Is the firehall still there?
There used to be two theatres on Lovejoy…..when the new Lovejoy opened, the old Lovejoy closed and remained abondoned for mnay years. I think the the city took it over for unpaid taxes.
I remember going to help with my brothers. I would have been 8 or 9 because we moved to Toronto when I was 10. (in 1959) My Aunt Ruth (Rappaport) usually was in the ticket booth. My grandmother Fanny Siegel (nee Rappaport) was always busy running all over the theater…sometimes she would be in the ticket booth or concession or taking tickets when people came in. My grandfather Jack Siegel(his real name was Jacob) usually took tickets when the people came into the theater. My Aunt Sara Weil (nee Rappaport) always manned the concession stand. The projectionists name was Norm. He was a strange kinda guy (but remember I was only 8 or 9. There was an office upstairs next to the projection booth..and it had a huge glass window so if we wanted to sit in the office and watch the movie we could..but we had privlidges. On some Saturday they had kids matinees and they would pack the kids in there…there were even kids sitting on the floor in aisles to watch the movies. Today that would never happen for saftey reasons. My brothers and I got all the free popcorn w wanted, but my Aunt wanted to save money so for us she put the popcorn in a clean box lined with napkins and filled it with popcorn and we always wanted extra butter…which she hated giving us…because we didn’t have to pay. I remember my grandfather would go over o the fire hall across the street and play checkers with the firemen…Is the firehall still there?
There used to be two theatres on Lovejoy…..when the new Lovejoy opened, the old Lovejoy closed and remained abondoned for mnay years. I think the the city took it over for unpaid taxes.