GOING back to 1953,the summer of 1953 these movies were playing here.
1.BEAST FROM 20.000 FATHOMS {also playing at the cloverleaf drive in]
2.SHE’s WORKING HER WAY THRU COLLEGE
3.PATHFINDER
4.TARGET HONG KONG
5.THE NEVADAN
6.BOWERY BLITZKRIEG
In the summer of 1953 these films were playing on the outdoor screen
1.SCARED STIFF
2.PEKING EXPRESS
3.PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER
4.DAKOTA LIL
5.CATTLE DRIVE
6.THE RACKET
Forget the above it was playing at the same time at the RIDGE THEATER. Sept 24 1967 NOW SHOWING THE SOUND OF MUSIC with WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT playing next with HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE.
Sept.28 1967 Now showing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Shows start at 2:30 at the Capri Rocking chair theatre, There was a no reserved seating.Tickets were $1.75 for evening shows and $1.50 for matinees.
Michael Ryan, Lizzie Derr and Katherine Bonner are three Greenbrier High School seniors who are organizing a concert to raise money and awareness for the restoration of the MILLER THEATRE. From the COLUMBIA COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, Jan 3 2010. Good Luck Kids.
Michael Ryan, Lizzie Derr and Katherine Bonner are three Greenbrier High School seniors who are organizing a concert to raise money and awareness for the restoration of the MILLER THEATRE. From the COLUMBIA COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, Jan 3 2010. Good Luck Kids.
Henry Thomas was one of the first union Projectionists to run the booth.He would later move to the Performing Arts Center at Augusta College and run that complex. At one time he thought about buying the Thomson theatre in Thomson,Ga. But ill health stopped that dream.
Projectionists of record. Chuck Dray a staple in Augusta theatres moved from the Regency Triple in the Mall. To work the EXCHANGE. Other UNION projectionists weren H.V. HANSON and BILLY BARKLEY who had run movies like Dray in several Augusta theatres. They used Tom Dray for relief and a non union man to help out. BY that time the Union was seeing the writing on the wall.
When it was getting ready to open I actually went by an got an application for a management spot. The lady there gave me the tour and explained it was a manager/operator theatre. “you mean we have to worry about the booth and the floor?” She said Yep, that is the way REGAL operates.
I pity these managers today. Say what you will about UNION projectionists,they made my life alot easier back in the 70’s and early 80’s at GCC. Needless to say, I threw the application in the trash later.
Big Clint Eastwood fan. I am sorry to say HONKEYTONK MAN played there to mainly EMPTY showings. Clint should have known better. I couldn’t talk people into CINEMA TWO when the other 2 cinemas sold out.
March 31 1972 The Modjeska is playing its regular fare. THE STEPMOTHER. Rated R. The newspaper here made them take out the word SIN in the ad and add TRANSGRESSION. Shows start at 12:30.
March 31 1972 DANIEL VILLAGE is playing the Disney hit BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS. Prices are 2.00 for adults and no longer 75 cents it is now 1.00 for kids.
Yeah, when i wrote it i remembered National Hills was still a pile of dirt. It is just that if you were able to see the two theatres if you had any kind of epic film and National Hills WAS OPEN you would want it booked there. IT was run in35 mm at Daniel Village.No 70mm there only at NATIONAL HILLS. I have the 70mm storage cases in my basement.
Now SHOWING at the ROSA DRIVE IN SATURDAY ONLY! Four Big Features.
TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD, THE DIRTY GAME, GUNMEN OF THE RIO GRANDE, I guess the fourth feature was not included in the ad.
One problem is in 1956 there was a REDA DRIVE IN in Middlesboro. It parked 450 cars.And was owned by D.Reda. I wonder if at sometime the Drive in changed names. I know the Manring Theatre in that town is on CT. And locals have written on the Manring Theatre. Wish they would get on and help with this.
REDA DRIVE IN Middlesboro,Ky. ROSA DRIVE IN Middlesboro ,Ky. ?
I have visited the lot and a few years ago the concession/booth was still standing with the roof still on it. Bullldozers had piled dirt and speaker pole bases around the doors to keep people out .but I WAS ABLE to do my best Indy Jones and climbed by all the trash piled around the doors.
The screen was gone as was the Box office. Water was getting into the snack bar pretty bad, but the booth was quite dry.
There is nothing to work out iam glad to get the picture to you. I wish someone had a picture of the Forest Hills Drive in here,so i know what it will mean to you.
oH, Ed glad to have you back somehow i kept missing your great writing on CT. Ray Hutto wrote a story i had never heard on FOREST HILLS DRIVE in Here.
GOING back to 1953,the summer of 1953 these movies were playing here.
1.BEAST FROM 20.000 FATHOMS {also playing at the cloverleaf drive in]
2.SHE’s WORKING HER WAY THRU COLLEGE
3.PATHFINDER
4.TARGET HONG KONG
5.THE NEVADAN
6.BOWERY BLITZKRIEG
In the summer of 1953 these films were playing on the outdoor screen
1.SCARED STIFF
2.PEKING EXPRESS
3.PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER
4.DAKOTA LIL
5.CATTLE DRIVE
6.THE RACKET
THE HILLTOP in the summer of 1953 was playing;
1.BATTLE CIRCUS
2.NO TIME FOR FLOWERS
3.LOVE ISLAND
4.BORN TO SADDIE
5.FOUR FACES WEST
6.SONG OF THE SARONG
Some of the SUMMER movies of 1953 include playing at the CLOVERLEAF
3.MA and PA KETTLE on VACATION
4.SWORD OF VENUS
5.BELLE LE GRANDE
MOVIES PLAYING AT THE LAKEVIEW SUMMER 1953
3.DEVIL MAKES THREE
4.REDHEAD FROM WYOMING
5.KANGAROO KID
Forget the above it was playing at the same time at the RIDGE THEATER. Sept 24 1967 NOW SHOWING THE SOUND OF MUSIC with WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT playing next with HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE.
Sept. 24 1967 NOW SHOWING JOHNNY YUMA . BORN LOSERS was the next picture to play.
Sept,24 1967 Now showing JOHNNY YUMA . BORN LOSERS would be next feature.
Sept.28 1967 Now showing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Shows start at 2:30 at the Capri Rocking chair theatre, There was a no reserved seating.Tickets were $1.75 for evening shows and $1.50 for matinees.
Michael Ryan, Lizzie Derr and Katherine Bonner are three Greenbrier High School seniors who are organizing a concert to raise money and awareness for the restoration of the MILLER THEATRE. From the COLUMBIA COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, Jan 3 2010. Good Luck Kids.
Michael Ryan, Lizzie Derr and Katherine Bonner are three Greenbrier High School seniors who are organizing a concert to raise money and awareness for the restoration of the MILLER THEATRE. From the COLUMBIA COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, Jan 3 2010. Good Luck Kids.
Henry Thomas was one of the first union Projectionists to run the booth.He would later move to the Performing Arts Center at Augusta College and run that complex. At one time he thought about buying the Thomson theatre in Thomson,Ga. But ill health stopped that dream.
Projectionists of record. Chuck Dray a staple in Augusta theatres moved from the Regency Triple in the Mall. To work the EXCHANGE. Other UNION projectionists weren H.V. HANSON and BILLY BARKLEY who had run movies like Dray in several Augusta theatres. They used Tom Dray for relief and a non union man to help out. BY that time the Union was seeing the writing on the wall.
When it was getting ready to open I actually went by an got an application for a management spot. The lady there gave me the tour and explained it was a manager/operator theatre. “you mean we have to worry about the booth and the floor?” She said Yep, that is the way REGAL operates.
I pity these managers today. Say what you will about UNION projectionists,they made my life alot easier back in the 70’s and early 80’s at GCC. Needless to say, I threw the application in the trash later.
Big Clint Eastwood fan. I am sorry to say HONKEYTONK MAN played there to mainly EMPTY showings. Clint should have known better. I couldn’t talk people into CINEMA TWO when the other 2 cinemas sold out.
Yes, I took pictures of the old concession and Booth. Some of the sound equipment was STILL mounted on the wall.
March 31 1972 The Modjeska is playing its regular fare. THE STEPMOTHER. Rated R. The newspaper here made them take out the word SIN in the ad and add TRANSGRESSION. Shows start at 12:30.
March 31 1972 DANIEL VILLAGE is playing the Disney hit BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS. Prices are 2.00 for adults and no longer 75 cents it is now 1.00 for kids.
Yeah, when i wrote it i remembered National Hills was still a pile of dirt. It is just that if you were able to see the two theatres if you had any kind of epic film and National Hills WAS OPEN you would want it booked there. IT was run in35 mm at Daniel Village.No 70mm there only at NATIONAL HILLS. I have the 70mm storage cases in my basement.
The Newspaper ad has the ROSA DRIVE IN on PINEVILLE ROAD. U.S. 25.
Now SHOWING at the ROSA DRIVE IN SATURDAY ONLY! Four Big Features.
TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD, THE DIRTY GAME, GUNMEN OF THE RIO GRANDE, I guess the fourth feature was not included in the ad.
Starting SUNDAY JOHN WAYNE in the ALAMO.
One problem is in 1956 there was a REDA DRIVE IN in Middlesboro. It parked 450 cars.And was owned by D.Reda. I wonder if at sometime the Drive in changed names. I know the Manring Theatre in that town is on CT. And locals have written on the Manring Theatre. Wish they would get on and help with this.
REDA DRIVE IN Middlesboro,Ky. ROSA DRIVE IN Middlesboro ,Ky. ?
I have visited the lot and a few years ago the concession/booth was still standing with the roof still on it. Bullldozers had piled dirt and speaker pole bases around the doors to keep people out .but I WAS ABLE to do my best Indy Jones and climbed by all the trash piled around the doors.
The screen was gone as was the Box office. Water was getting into the snack bar pretty bad, but the booth was quite dry.
There is nothing to work out iam glad to get the picture to you. I wish someone had a picture of the Forest Hills Drive in here,so i know what it will mean to you.