Was it the Odeon? You mentioned that it was on the corner of Shaftesbury-did you mean Shrewsbury? If so, it sould have been the Odeon. I remember seeing ‘Witness’ there…
Oh my God-I spent my whole childhood at that theatre! We moved to Bloomington in 1963 when I was a kid and I swear, if I close my eyes, I can still see that patch of land with the ‘for sale’ sign on it that eventually became the Mann Theatre. I saw eveything there from ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, ‘Help’, ‘Tommy’, ‘the Sound of Music’, ‘Star Wars’, ‘Grease’ and so many, many more. Just looking at that massive marquee was magical! I later moved away and didn’t move back to Minneapolis until 1998 and was brokenhearted when I went past Southtown and saw my theatre gone! Awesome memories! I remember that sometimes they use to have spotlights in front and to a kid—well, Hollywood had come to us!!
Was it the Odeon? You mentioned that it was on the corner of Shaftesbury-did you mean Shrewsbury? If so, it sould have been the Odeon. I remember seeing ‘Witness’ there…
Oh my God-I spent my whole childhood at that theatre! We moved to Bloomington in 1963 when I was a kid and I swear, if I close my eyes, I can still see that patch of land with the ‘for sale’ sign on it that eventually became the Mann Theatre. I saw eveything there from ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, ‘Help’, ‘Tommy’, ‘the Sound of Music’, ‘Star Wars’, ‘Grease’ and so many, many more. Just looking at that massive marquee was magical! I later moved away and didn’t move back to Minneapolis until 1998 and was brokenhearted when I went past Southtown and saw my theatre gone! Awesome memories! I remember that sometimes they use to have spotlights in front and to a kid—well, Hollywood had come to us!!