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ghamilton commented about Uinta Theater on Sep 27, 2005 at 2:45 pm

Of course if the date was really promising,you took here to the lovely Pioneer Drive In.Also you had the option to head to the Art City Drive In, or the theater in downtown Springville.For real adventure,you could take your life in your hands and head to Spanish Fork.The locals there did NOT like BYU people.

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ghamilton commented about Lyric Theatre on Sep 26, 2005 at 11:36 am

This theater should have been the one to “save”.It is more intact than the gutted one.Waycross is a diamond in the rough.If it were a little closer to Jacksonville,it could come back from the grave it is in.I believe there was a 3rd theater downtown in the 50’s.Could the church use facility be it?I often went to Waycross in the late 50’s with my father on church affairs.The WWII airfield was still totally intact then and as a very young military groupie,I loved it.

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ghamilton commented about Capitol Theatre on Sep 26, 2005 at 7:11 am

Yep,you did it.I worship your oracle-like product.

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ghamilton commented about Capitol Theatre on Sep 25, 2005 at 2:50 pm

I will never forget seeing “How To Succeed In Business” at this beautiful theater.(1966 or 67)There was another theater nearby.There was also a very nice theater over the Broadway bridge on the South side of town.Saskatoon was a lovely city,because they planted a lot of trees during the depression.I bet Mr.Memory can come up the the names and dates.The man is a god.

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ghamilton commented about Moose Jaw Cultural Centre on Sep 25, 2005 at 2:40 pm

When I visited lovely Moose Jaw in the winter of 67-68,I remember two operating theaters.Obviously you got the one,which was the other?Both were near the Simpson-Sears downtown.There was also two theaters in the thrilling burg of Swift Current.One large,one small.There was also a theater at the airforce base near MJ.Canadian bases didn’t have great theaters like some US facilities.I remember one CF theater was a quonset hut.

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ghamilton commented about Paramount Theatre on Sep 22, 2005 at 12:08 pm

Mr.Memory,you never fail to amaze.How the heck would you ever stumble across a 1965 year book page?Sometimes you’re scary.Not retired from the NSA?I guess you’d have to kill me if you told me.

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ghamilton commented about Palace Theater on Sep 20, 2005 at 2:03 pm

Newport News is one of the saddest victims of that evil curse-“urban renewal”.It once had a vibrant,busy downtown with large dept.stores,theaters and shops.It is a near total wasteland now.

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ghamilton commented about Capitol Theatre on Sep 19, 2005 at 8:07 am

It’s huge and it sits all boarded up and painted one gray color.

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ghamilton commented about Wales Theatre on Sep 17, 2005 at 3:32 pm

Small towns on the Canadian plains often have some real gems.Life was(is)harsh and the film escape was(is)even more important than Miami Beach,for instance.I remember seeing some pretty grand theaters in Ft.MacLeod,Lethbridge,Brooks,Medicine Hat,Swift Current,Moose Jaw and the larger cities,some listed here already.There was some real funky ones in places like Pincher Creek,Raymond,Taber and Cardston.I really ought to put Brooks into the funky class too.

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ghamilton commented about Promised Valley Playhouse on Sep 17, 2005 at 4:36 am

I attended this theater often during one period of my life,as it was only two blocks from my apt.It was the first theater my first newborn child went to(he’s 35 now).SLC now has just 2 left out of many,and the jury is still out on one(UTAH).This is just so sad and wasn’t the way it should have been.“seismic upgrades"have been the excuse to destroy many bldgs in the West.

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ghamilton commented about SCERA Showhouse on Sep 17, 2005 at 4:25 am

This theater has been known for decades as the Disney movie headquarters.It is closed on Sundays and often used for church functions.It was appearently owned by the predominate local demonination,before being spun off into a foundation situation.This organization has had many ups and downs,but tries to serve its community of good families.The style of the bldg could be called art deco,but barely.The main room was kind of plain when I was last inside.

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ghamilton commented about Promised Valley Playhouse on Sep 16, 2005 at 11:46 am

These photos from the Utah theaters site via Mr.Memory show what a tragic,stupid waste that the destruction of this beauty was.The justifications for this slaughter were boiled down to one word-greed for profit at the cost of the soul of the city these pratts claim to care so much about.It’s a good thing I don’t have to sustain Zion Securities functionaries as Prophets,seers and revelators at general conference next month.I’d have to become a baptist.`

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ghamilton commented about Ellen Eccles Theatre on Sep 14, 2005 at 1:38 pm

Micheal Ballam is the treasure of the theater.His talent is know to few nationally,but he is a world-class opera and musical wonder.People come from far and wide when he is onstage.

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ghamilton commented about Capitol Theatre on Sep 13, 2005 at 3:08 pm

I’m far less fortunate than you.I just stumble across things as I wander the countryside.Challenge for you.There is a huge hulk of an old theater in Weldon,NC,used sometime in the past as a church.What?

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ghamilton commented about Capitol Theatre on Sep 13, 2005 at 2:00 pm

Thanks for the link to Utah Theater website w/the pics.Grant Smith has done such a great job with this web site.He deserves mucho credit for what he has done.YOU-Mr.Memory are the most remarkable font of facts and pictures.You obviously do not need to up the ginko yet.

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ghamilton commented about Centre Cinema on Sep 13, 2005 at 1:30 pm

Yeh,this is the one I mentioned in my other Regina posting.It was a nice place,especially when it was 20 below zero.When I lived there,Canada had not gone metric,thank heaven.When you went there you could get your car out of the weather and descend to eternal spring.

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ghamilton commented about Carpenter Theatre on Sep 11, 2005 at 12:20 pm

The saga continues.Today’s Times-Dispatch has another fine article on the war over the Carpenter Center.This soap opera continues to descend into the depths of stupidity that has surprised even me,a total cynic.I had thought cooler heads would have risen to the top by now,but no,everyone in the loop are keeping the loop below the surface of the sewage lagoon,probably the big one right across the James from downtown-the one East of I-95.

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ghamilton commented about Charleston 333 on Sep 9, 2005 at 4:32 pm

Bremerton has never been a cultural high spot on the map of W WA.

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ghamilton commented about Hamilton Theater on Sep 9, 2005 at 4:29 pm

Sorry about the mess above.The subject just drives me nuts.

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ghamilton commented about Hamilton Theater on Sep 9, 2005 at 4:28 pm

I visited Hamilton several times in the 80’s.The Coast Guard piddled there a bit and the Presidio choppers lived there.I thought that Hamilton had to be the most beautiful base in the US.The bldgs were just gorgeous.The hangers were clasics.I still believe it should have retained an aviation function to benefit the community at large,but the tree-hugger enviro weenies are unbeatable in the Bay area.Witness the bird flipped at the battleship recently to show the mentality of the area.The same forces that dictated no aviation at Hamilton are determined to bulldoze the great El Toro facility,so desperately needed by the community as a major airport for SoCal.The was or is a great theater at Toro too.

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ghamilton commented about Gem Theatre on Sep 8, 2005 at 1:42 pm

Patsy,what happened to the old theater in downtown Concord?An old guy in Richmond claimed there was a nice theater in Concord in the 50-60’s.I drove down every street and saw no evidence of one .

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ghamilton commented about Gem Theatre on Sep 7, 2005 at 3:09 pm

Drove by these theaters twice in the last week.The Gem is showing Transporter 2.The closeby other theater around the corner and down a block is the CannonVillage visitors center.It is a beautiful building of a somewhat Georgian style matching the rest of this unique shopping area.The pathos of the area really bummed me out.The half dozen or so HUMONGOUS Cannon factories are being demolished.This devastation is all of our faults,since too many of us would rather pay a few cents less for a crummy import that won’t last half as long while a way of life disappears and our real jobs go to china and pakistan.Oh,yeh,the grocery store theater is a very well-built,handsome building at the corner of S.Main and Dale Earnhart Blvd.

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ghamilton commented about Carpenter Theatre on Aug 24, 2005 at 5:22 am

Brilliant,Jim.

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ghamilton commented about Carpenter Theatre on Aug 24, 2005 at 2:36 am

Article in the Times-Dispatch today shows the current state of the bloody battle.It’s going to get a lot uglier.

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ghamilton commented about Carpenter Theatre on Aug 20, 2005 at 11:10 am

The fight just gets uglier.I am quite disturbed by how much of the original theater is suppoed to be demolished.Mayor Doug has thrown a lot of wrenches in the gears,but that may be a good thing.Someone should look at reality.How can so much of a listed property be destroyed?The egos in this fight are so transperent and self serving.The good and honorable mayor may even want some of the city’s mis spent $ back.WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!