Mike, I’m just getting this message on Easter. Thank you for the compliment. I hope to one day capture the N.E. Expressway Drive In on canvas, if I can ever get a decent picture of it. I love the pictures you sent me. Thank you.
It will always be the LOEWS TARA to me. When it was one theatre and they ran 6 track stereo 70mm roadshow movies like OLIVER!, HELLO DOLLY, FUNNY GIRL and SCROOGE. Them were the days. View link
I guess the Phipps Plaza theatre was the first theatre to be inside a MALL. Up until then the box office for every theatre was pointed directly outdoors.
I have some of his stuff on tape. Again, if I had only known that he wouldn’t be around I would have taped his show more often. Also, Jim was VERY generous when it came to One Sheet Posters. He had access to anything he wanted from National Screen Service and was very generous to the friends of his who collected memorabilia. He gave me alot of posters and stills throughout the years.
oh wow, thanks Roger. I appreciate the feedback on that. Did you grow up in Atlanta? Jim Whaley hosted a PBS show on Channel 30 WPBA called CINEMA SHOWCASE. I met him when I was nine years old and he was manager of the Village Theatre. Jim’s no longer around but nobody knew more about film and in particular, film music than he did.
Thanks for watching.
omg, I REMEMBER that concession stand. First film I ever saw at the Loews Twelve Oaks was HOUSE OF WAX in 3D. Both the Loews Twelve Oaks and Loews Tara made GONE WITH THE WIND part of the heading above the concession stand. Man, that brings back memories when it was ONE theatre.
Mike, there’s this guy named Tommy that spent his youth taking pictures of Georgia Drive In screens and marquees. He would really love it if you posted those Moonlit Drive In pictures on his Moonlit Drive In facebook page. If you go to it, you’ll see the ones I contributed.
I sent you a message, didn’t you get it? Yes they arrived and I love the pictures, I really do. A bit hard to look at some of them. It’s heartbreaking. Especially the one of the Drive In landscape with nothing but the freeway in the distance. That was a really sad picture. I’m really glad to have these. At least it gives me an idea of what it once was. Of what I remember. They didn’t waste anytime tearing the screen tower down. I wonder if anyone else was upset about it?
The North 85 stuff was good too. I really appreciate you sending me that stuff. Thank you.
Mike, I got the pictures and they’re WONDERFUL! Thank you very much. One I have as the wallpaper for my computer. I liked all of them. The one that was the hardest to look at was the one you took of the blanketed Drive In concrete with the Screen Tower gone and the freeway in the distance. That was tough to look at. Seriously. Why wasn’t I there for this? I was in Los Angeles when both this Drive In was taken down and the North 85 too. That picture of the fans by the marquee was hard to look at too. I wish I had been there and I wish I had met them. Strange, I thought I was the only one who loved that Drive In? Too bad there wasn’t a better movie running on it’s last night. It would have been great if they had showed a classic film rather than a current one. The fact that they let everyone in for free was sad too. Even thinking about it now makes me sad. I don’t know why.
They’re holding out HOUSE and NIGHT of Dark Shadows for some reason? With the success of Twilight you would think they’d be interested in getting it out there. Perhaps they’re waiting for the Johnny Depp version to be made so it can generate interest in the original.
As for FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, I absolutely LOVE Sharon Tate. I’m always looking for stuff on her.
I had a chance to spend some time up at the Cielo Drive house where she was killed before it was torn down.
They’re holding out HOUSE and NIGHT of Dark Shadows for some reason? With the success of Twilight you would think they’d be interested in getting it out there. Perhaps they’re waiting for the Johnny Depp version to be made so it can generate interest in the original.
As for FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, I absolutely LOVE Sharon Tate. I’m always looking for stuff on her.
I had a chance to spend some time up at the Cielo Drive house where she was killed before it was torn down.
I LOVE HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS. My buddy and I saw it many times. First at the DORAVILLE MINI CINEMA on Buford Highway and then at the BRIARCLIFF VILLAGE THEATRE. Henderson High School ran it in 16mm in the lunch room auditorium one halloween. I saw NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS at the ROXY theatre (remember that theatre) downtown Atlanta. In 1972 they revived HOUSE and NIGHT as a double feature at the Doraville Mini Cinema. My buddy and I smuggled in tape recorders to tape the entire movie. We were big on vampire movies. ANY vampire movies. Horror movies in general.
My buddies and me made alot of movies based on films. We loved HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS and made several vampire movies based on that. We made a comedy based on THE IMPOSSIBLE YEARS with David Niven. We even made one based on BARBARELLA and FLESH GORDON. It’s pretty gay. Wasn’t my film, but a portion of it is on You tube. Enough years have passed that I don’t cringe as much as I use to. You may though. Check is out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es4GFO4KIB8
To Cobait, Let me clear something up. I don’t “hate” anyone. That’s too strong a word, but what I do hate is what that movie did to film in general. But then it makes me sick that single theatre auditoriums are no longer being built. The ones that are left are closing or being torn down. Remember the days when going downtown was exciting because of ALL the movie marquees? There are no more movie marquees anymore. I don’t particularly like cineplexes all that much. I don’t like the pressure of a movie having to OPEN BIG on a weekend or else fail. I think Drive In Movies made the America a friendlier place and no those are all practically gone.
Where are the great artists? The great filmmakers like Carol Reed and Orson Wells or William Wyler? Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock?
I’m not saying there haven’t been good movies made since STAR WARS. On the contrary, but STAR WARS is and always has been overrated. It’s just another “good vs. evil” american film that glorifies war. What’s special about that? It has mediocre special effects and bad costumes. Don’t get me wrong, I actually liked the 2nd one THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Couldn’t stand the 3rd one with the teddy bears. That enterprise and alot of the crowd pleasing Spielberg films turned the art of filmmaking into theme park ride movies. Made them junky. This is nothing new. There has been much written about the decline of american films because of this. Sure there are some wonderful and very good films made since, but tell me, where are the great ones?
Among the films my buddy’s and I made was one little 60 minute Super 8 sound shocker based on THE EXORCIST (which I first saw at a theatre downtown Atlanta and not at the Phipps Penthouse where it opened). Our film was called THE DEMONIC POSSESSION made miraculously without any parental censorship or interference. Even today when people see it, they look at me strangely. Check out an excerpt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvKJcq9ZCQ
If I’d known none of these theaters would be around and what they would mean to me later I WOULD HAVE shot more footage. I actually have a little footage of when SCROOGE played at the LOEWS TARA. Not much, but some.
Phipp’s Fountain and Tea Room? Things always taste better there, I don’t know WHAT they do to it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtS7lKIXafQ
Mike, I’m just getting this message on Easter. Thank you for the compliment. I hope to one day capture the N.E. Expressway Drive In on canvas, if I can ever get a decent picture of it. I love the pictures you sent me. Thank you.
Mike, I would really like to see them. Definitely. That Drive In is no more.
Hey Mike, any chance of us seeing those MOONLIT DRIVE IN pics of yours?
Also, the Capri did not open in 1975. I saw LOVE STORY and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE there in both ‘70 and '72
It will always be the LOEWS TARA to me. When it was one theatre and they ran 6 track stereo 70mm roadshow movies like OLIVER!, HELLO DOLLY, FUNNY GIRL and SCROOGE. Them were the days. View link
I guess the Phipps Plaza theatre was the first theatre to be inside a MALL. Up until then the box office for every theatre was pointed directly outdoors.
The effects and costumes in STAR WARS are at times every bit as cheap looking as they are in FLESH GORDON
I have some of his stuff on tape. Again, if I had only known that he wouldn’t be around I would have taped his show more often. Also, Jim was VERY generous when it came to One Sheet Posters. He had access to anything he wanted from National Screen Service and was very generous to the friends of his who collected memorabilia. He gave me alot of posters and stills throughout the years.
oh wow, thanks Roger. I appreciate the feedback on that. Did you grow up in Atlanta? Jim Whaley hosted a PBS show on Channel 30 WPBA called CINEMA SHOWCASE. I met him when I was nine years old and he was manager of the Village Theatre. Jim’s no longer around but nobody knew more about film and in particular, film music than he did.
Thanks for watching.
omg, I REMEMBER that concession stand. First film I ever saw at the Loews Twelve Oaks was HOUSE OF WAX in 3D. Both the Loews Twelve Oaks and Loews Tara made GONE WITH THE WIND part of the heading above the concession stand. Man, that brings back memories when it was ONE theatre.
Mike, there’s this guy named Tommy that spent his youth taking pictures of Georgia Drive In screens and marquees. He would really love it if you posted those Moonlit Drive In pictures on his Moonlit Drive In facebook page. If you go to it, you’ll see the ones I contributed.
Mike,
Do have pictures of the MOONLIT DRIVE IN by any chance? Check out the site with my pics. View link
Cliff
Tell me, did I send you those pictures that Tommy Holcombe sent me of the N.E. THEATRE?
Mike, Go to the N.E. Expressway page, I’d rather fill that page up than this one to a theatre that wasn’t what I thought.
I sent you a message, didn’t you get it? Yes they arrived and I love the pictures, I really do. A bit hard to look at some of them. It’s heartbreaking. Especially the one of the Drive In landscape with nothing but the freeway in the distance. That was a really sad picture. I’m really glad to have these. At least it gives me an idea of what it once was. Of what I remember. They didn’t waste anytime tearing the screen tower down. I wonder if anyone else was upset about it?
The North 85 stuff was good too. I really appreciate you sending me that stuff. Thank you.
Mike, I got the pictures and they’re WONDERFUL! Thank you very much. One I have as the wallpaper for my computer. I liked all of them. The one that was the hardest to look at was the one you took of the blanketed Drive In concrete with the Screen Tower gone and the freeway in the distance. That was tough to look at. Seriously. Why wasn’t I there for this? I was in Los Angeles when both this Drive In was taken down and the North 85 too. That picture of the fans by the marquee was hard to look at too. I wish I had been there and I wish I had met them. Strange, I thought I was the only one who loved that Drive In? Too bad there wasn’t a better movie running on it’s last night. It would have been great if they had showed a classic film rather than a current one. The fact that they let everyone in for free was sad too. Even thinking about it now makes me sad. I don’t know why.
They’re holding out HOUSE and NIGHT of Dark Shadows for some reason? With the success of Twilight you would think they’d be interested in getting it out there. Perhaps they’re waiting for the Johnny Depp version to be made so it can generate interest in the original.
As for FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, I absolutely LOVE Sharon Tate. I’m always looking for stuff on her.
I had a chance to spend some time up at the Cielo Drive house where she was killed before it was torn down.
They’re holding out HOUSE and NIGHT of Dark Shadows for some reason? With the success of Twilight you would think they’d be interested in getting it out there. Perhaps they’re waiting for the Johnny Depp version to be made so it can generate interest in the original.
As for FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, I absolutely LOVE Sharon Tate. I’m always looking for stuff on her.
I had a chance to spend some time up at the Cielo Drive house where she was killed before it was torn down.
I LOVE HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS. My buddy and I saw it many times. First at the DORAVILLE MINI CINEMA on Buford Highway and then at the BRIARCLIFF VILLAGE THEATRE. Henderson High School ran it in 16mm in the lunch room auditorium one halloween. I saw NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS at the ROXY theatre (remember that theatre) downtown Atlanta. In 1972 they revived HOUSE and NIGHT as a double feature at the Doraville Mini Cinema. My buddy and I smuggled in tape recorders to tape the entire movie. We were big on vampire movies. ANY vampire movies. Horror movies in general.
My buddies and me made alot of movies based on films. We loved HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS and made several vampire movies based on that. We made a comedy based on THE IMPOSSIBLE YEARS with David Niven. We even made one based on BARBARELLA and FLESH GORDON. It’s pretty gay. Wasn’t my film, but a portion of it is on You tube. Enough years have passed that I don’t cringe as much as I use to. You may though. Check is out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es4GFO4KIB8
To Cobait, Let me clear something up. I don’t “hate” anyone. That’s too strong a word, but what I do hate is what that movie did to film in general. But then it makes me sick that single theatre auditoriums are no longer being built. The ones that are left are closing or being torn down. Remember the days when going downtown was exciting because of ALL the movie marquees? There are no more movie marquees anymore. I don’t particularly like cineplexes all that much. I don’t like the pressure of a movie having to OPEN BIG on a weekend or else fail. I think Drive In Movies made the America a friendlier place and no those are all practically gone.
Where are the great artists? The great filmmakers like Carol Reed and Orson Wells or William Wyler? Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock?
I’m not saying there haven’t been good movies made since STAR WARS. On the contrary, but STAR WARS is and always has been overrated. It’s just another “good vs. evil” american film that glorifies war. What’s special about that? It has mediocre special effects and bad costumes. Don’t get me wrong, I actually liked the 2nd one THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Couldn’t stand the 3rd one with the teddy bears. That enterprise and alot of the crowd pleasing Spielberg films turned the art of filmmaking into theme park ride movies. Made them junky. This is nothing new. There has been much written about the decline of american films because of this. Sure there are some wonderful and very good films made since, but tell me, where are the great ones?
It turned the art of film into theme park rides. That’s what it did.
Among the films my buddy’s and I made was one little 60 minute Super 8 sound shocker based on THE EXORCIST (which I first saw at a theatre downtown Atlanta and not at the Phipps Penthouse where it opened). Our film was called THE DEMONIC POSSESSION made miraculously without any parental censorship or interference. Even today when people see it, they look at me strangely. Check out an excerpt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvKJcq9ZCQ
If I’d known none of these theaters would be around and what they would mean to me later I WOULD HAVE shot more footage. I actually have a little footage of when SCROOGE played at the LOEWS TARA. Not much, but some.