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HAL-9000 commented about Roxy Theatre on Jan 16, 2018 at 4:47 am

I posted a couple postcards just now but you have to click on “photos” to see them …

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HAL-9000 commented about Roxy Theatre on Jan 14, 2018 at 1:16 am

I was a six year-old kid in Glasgow when the Roxy burned. I remember watching the fire from my bike, wondering how I’d ever know what became of Commando Cody after last week’s cliffhanger… Two years later, the new Survant Theatre introduced Cinemascope, Hollywood’s answer to television (still a distant dream in 1955’s Glasgow…) The first film to be shown was “A Man Called Peter,” which I watched for about 5 minutes before walking out, not wanting to waste the experience on this talkathon… The next week’s feature wasn’t in Cinemascope (or 3-D), 1953’s “Inferno” with Robert Ryan, but ironic considering the Survant arose from the actual inferno down the street when the Roxy burned… Not long after that came “Bad Day At Black Rock,” with, of course Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, maybe the best Cinemascope picture ever…

And Commando Cody was back! He escaped after all! (Whew!)

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HAL-9000 commented about Valley Cinemas on Jan 14, 2018 at 1:04 am

I was a six year-old kid in Glasgow when the Roxy burned. I remember watching the fire from my bike, wondering how I’d ever know what became of Commando Cody after last week’s cliffhanger… Two years later, the new Survant Theatre introduced Cinemascope, Hollywood’s answer to television (still a distant dream in 1955’s Glasgow…) The first film to be shown was “A Man Called Peter,” which I watched for about 5 minutes before walking out, not wanting to waste the experience on this talkathon… The next week’s feature wasn’t in Cinemascope (or 3-D), 1953’s “Inferno” with Robert Ryan, but ironic considering the Survant arose from the actual inferno down the street when the Roxy burned… Not long after that came “Bad Day At Black Rock,” with, of course Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, maybe the best Cinemascope picture ever…

And Commando Cody was back! He escaped after all! (Whew!)