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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: August 29, 2021, 06:16:46 PM »
Before continuing with the 25th, I want to jump ahead briefly to today because 50 years ago today was the last time I saw NoDS is a theater.
It's a bit odd that we chose a Sunday to go because, as you may have noticed, there was no discount at the Durfee Theatre on Sundays, tickets were $2. And while $2 would be a pittance to see a film today, it was a bit pricey back in the '70s - especially for kids who still only had an allowance. (For example, I saw literally hundreds of films at the local mall back in the '70s and I never paid more than $1.25 a showing.) Not to mention we'd only paid $2 a car when we went to the Ponta Drive-in.
But price was actually the smaller part of the oddness of the decision because buses didn't run on Sundays where I lived, and our parents all had commitments that Sunday and couldn't give us a ride, so we had to walk. And the funny thing is I remember that walk as if it was just yesterday - but then I've already said that I remember all the circumstances surrounding the three different days I went to see NoDS.
Though the good thing is we weren't going to have to walk home because my mother said she would pick us up at the theater around 9pm on her way home from the party she was going to, and that timing was perfectly fine with us because it meant we'd be able to see NoDS three more times that day.
And it probably won't surprise anyone that I still have the ticket stubs from all three trips to see NoDS:
It's a bit odd that we chose a Sunday to go because, as you may have noticed, there was no discount at the Durfee Theatre on Sundays, tickets were $2. And while $2 would be a pittance to see a film today, it was a bit pricey back in the '70s - especially for kids who still only had an allowance. (For example, I saw literally hundreds of films at the local mall back in the '70s and I never paid more than $1.25 a showing.) Not to mention we'd only paid $2 a car when we went to the Ponta Drive-in.
But price was actually the smaller part of the oddness of the decision because buses didn't run on Sundays where I lived, and our parents all had commitments that Sunday and couldn't give us a ride, so we had to walk. And the funny thing is I remember that walk as if it was just yesterday - but then I've already said that I remember all the circumstances surrounding the three different days I went to see NoDS.
Though the good thing is we weren't going to have to walk home because my mother said she would pick us up at the theater around 9pm on her way home from the party she was going to, and that timing was perfectly fine with us because it meant we'd be able to see NoDS three more times that day.
And it probably won't surprise anyone that I still have the ticket stubs from all three trips to see NoDS: