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I did.
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Absolutely!
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I terribly miss looking up movie showtimes like this. When I was a kid (the early 90s), a ticket was $3.50.
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Thanks for sharing that you did this! I liked looking at the newspaper ad because it painted a "picture" in black and white of what was possible to watch, and when!
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Exactly! I still remember flipping through the newspaper, mentally counting down the day's to Jurassic Park's opening (I was 11), and the size of the ad's getting bigger and bigger until it reached that June 11th.
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Wow, this makes me feel so old!
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Chaun Lee haha, age is a state of mind!
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Oh snap. Talk about a throwback!
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James Welday I tell myself that every time my knees hurt, another gray hair shows up, or I use some phrase from the old days my kids don't get, lol
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It happens. I'm turning the big 4-0 next month, and am already feeling the effects of age. haha
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Makes you feel old? I still remember the days that us kids went to the Saturday matinees when tickets were a dime ($0.10), a burger, fries & a coke cost a quarter - yeah, you're old. LOL.
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You got me beat, Doug. A five mile walk to a $1.25 matinee is what I remember and miss!
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What was worse was calling the theater and listening to the recording of the showtimes. If you missed the film you wanted (because someone was talking, etc) you had to wait through the whole thing again to repeat, if it was sophisticated enough to not make you have to call again.
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I used to check the cinema time table on teletext. But our town only had like four or five cinemas so it wasn't that hard and then the internet came in pretty quickly.
I just checked our national TV station still has teletext and there's still info about cinemas so I guess it still works. :)
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...oMg...the throwback to CALLING for the times! Did that. Forgot about it - but I do remember being on the phone listening for the show and time, and having someone talk to me then having to listen to the entire message repeat. Thanks for sharing everyone!
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Yep, yep, yep. When dollar theaters were still a thing especially.
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I remember going to a movie theater in a mall once.
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Ooh - I miss me some dollar theaters Kay!
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Dollar theaters were the best. I had one living in Pasadena with second run films and midnight screenings of great films like The Shining, The Big Lebowski and Eternal Sunshine.
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OMG, @Jake I had forgotten about CALLING for times, but you're so right! And there was inevitably someone trying to talk with you keeping you from hearing the times LOL Plus, you had to play that game where you have to figure out how much earlier you needed to get there to get good seats. Anybody ever theater hop? I could never let myself do it, I felt bad for cheating them out of their earnings.