A grumpy old joker from Waitheheckdoesitmatter commented on my previous post about sandwich bars.
He rather tersely 'reminded' me that there is a good bakery where The Plaza cinema (he meant picture theatre) used to be.
I remember a lot of Wellington picture theatres but couldn't remember The Plaza until I Googled it and was told that it used to be on Manners Street. Now I remember.
In my school days I used to go to a lot of these, particularly in the winter months to see Saturday afternoon features - usually the 2 o'clock ones. This was back in the day when shop opening and closing hours and picture theatre viewing hours were easy to remember: 11o'clock in the morning; 2 o'clock in the afternoon; 5 o'clock in the early evening and 8 o'clock in the evening. It wasn't until the 70s that 'late features' at 11 o'clock emerged. This was when 'am' and 'pm' was introduced as well and later the word 'cinema' to replace 'picture theatre'.
The inner city picture theatres I went to were - the aforementioned The Plaza plus Kings, The Majestic, Embassy, Lido, Roxy, Tudor, Paramount, The Regent and The State (later renamed and remodelled as Cinerama). Richard will no doubt remember more.
Almost every Wellington suburb had one or two picture theatres as well but the only ones I went to were The Ascot and Rivoli in Newtown and The Vogue in Brooklyn.
When I was at university I used to frequent the Victoria University 'cinema' named The Memorial Theatre and was a member of the Wellington Film Society which had a screening room beneath the old Wellington Museum.
I've mentioned Wellington's old picture theatres before so, for that grumpy old joker here's a link to one of them:
Tuti frutti.
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"A grumpy old joker from Waitheheckdoesitmatter commented on my previous post about sandwich bars.
He rather tersely 'reminded' me that there is a good bakery where The Plaza cinema (he meant picture theatre) used to be."
I was only trying to help.
Matthew 23:12 Jesus had the runs. This was hard when underpants were just pieces of cloth tied in a knot. Peter was worried what would happen if Jesus was talking to the masses and something went wrong. Later that day the phrase 'Holy shit!' was invented.
Thanks for that.
It reminds me of John 15:6 where Jesus, caught short had to hurriedly use the toilet but discovered that the toilet roll was empty. He yelled out to the residents:“Truly I tell you, unless you bloody change the toilet roll and don't act like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!"
TC
"Jesus wept" John 11:35
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