When I was a kid, I was movie crazy. I would always beg my mom to either take me to the Shirley Drivein or out to Patchogue to drop me off at a theater. I remember being so happy that they were going to open a twin theater in Shirley. Back then I used to cut newspaper ads from the movie section out and paste them into a book. Something I still have to this day buried somewhere. I remember being so happy the week before the Shirley Twin opened. Trying to guess what movies they were going to play. Then when it finally opened, I was mad. The first movie that played in the Shirley Twin was Goodbye Mr Chips and it played in both theaters. What a bummer for an 8 year old huh? I believe I still have the grand opening ad around somewhere. Anyway I have alot of good memories about that theater and like RetroEd and jolly rodger tomcat, I remember Bohacks and I think the name of the bank next to the twin was a Chemical Bank and later became a Banco Popular. I remember the Robert Halls and of course the Hardees, where the burgers are charco-broiled. While I was underage at the time, there was this guy that worked there who would remember me from week to week; that would let me into all of the rated R movies at that time. I remember seeing all the crazy blaxpotation films like Shaft and Foxy Brown, but no matter how hard I begged that guy would not let me in to see The Exorcist.
When I was a kid, I was movie crazy. I would always beg my mom to either take me to the Shirley Drivein or out to Patchogue to drop me off at a theater. I remember being so happy that they were going to open a twin theater in Shirley. Back then I used to cut newspaper ads from the movie section out and paste them into a book. Something I still have to this day buried somewhere. I remember being so happy the week before the Shirley Twin opened. Trying to guess what movies they were going to play. Then when it finally opened, I was mad. The first movie that played in the Shirley Twin was Goodbye Mr Chips and it played in both theaters. What a bummer for an 8 year old huh? I believe I still have the grand opening ad around somewhere. Anyway I have alot of good memories about that theater and like RetroEd and jolly rodger tomcat, I remember Bohacks and I think the name of the bank next to the twin was a Chemical Bank and later became a Banco Popular. I remember the Robert Halls and of course the Hardees, where the burgers are charco-broiled. While I was underage at the time, there was this guy that worked there who would remember me from week to week; that would let me into all of the rated R movies at that time. I remember seeing all the crazy blaxpotation films like Shaft and Foxy Brown, but no matter how hard I begged that guy would not let me in to see The Exorcist.