Unfortunately, my memory of the Colorado 4 was from the mid-80s and sitting in the theater and seeing a swarm of bugs crawling all over the wall. My date and I got up and went out to the lobby to complain and we received coupons for free tickets (which we used at a different theater; there was no way I was going back).
The Cooper Theatre in Denver was (is?) my all-time favorite movie theater. One of the earliest movies I saw there was “Paint Your Wagon” (which must have been in 1969). I saw Close Encounters with my family and I remember my dad commenting that the Mother Ship would make a nice chandelier. I saw Alien, Grease, The Wall and even “The World According to Garp.” The last movie I saw there was 2001: A Space Odyssey during a special showing in the 90s.
When I was 13 I saw Star Wars with my younger brother the second weekend after it opened. We sat in the balcony, behind a woman and her son. After the 20th Century Fox fanfare faded out up came the words, “A long time ago…”, the woman whispered to her son, “a long time ago?”
I still remember exactly how excited I was the first time I saw the words “Star Wars” appear on the screen. We sat through the movie twice that day. The next weekend they were clearing the theater between showings.
It is a pitiful shame that we lost the Cooper, and for that matter, Century 21 and the original Continental. (The latter is still with us, albeit grossly modified from its original beauty.) I must make a trip to Casper to see how their tribute to the Cooper turned out. Perhaps someday a new Cooper theater will be built in Denver.
I jokingly tell the young folks working at Barnes and Noble that I watched Star Wars “right here, in this exact spot.”
Unfortunately, my memory of the Colorado 4 was from the mid-80s and sitting in the theater and seeing a swarm of bugs crawling all over the wall. My date and I got up and went out to the lobby to complain and we received coupons for free tickets (which we used at a different theater; there was no way I was going back).
The Cooper Theatre in Denver was (is?) my all-time favorite movie theater. One of the earliest movies I saw there was “Paint Your Wagon” (which must have been in 1969). I saw Close Encounters with my family and I remember my dad commenting that the Mother Ship would make a nice chandelier. I saw Alien, Grease, The Wall and even “The World According to Garp.” The last movie I saw there was 2001: A Space Odyssey during a special showing in the 90s.
When I was 13 I saw Star Wars with my younger brother the second weekend after it opened. We sat in the balcony, behind a woman and her son. After the 20th Century Fox fanfare faded out up came the words, “A long time ago…”, the woman whispered to her son, “a long time ago?”
I still remember exactly how excited I was the first time I saw the words “Star Wars” appear on the screen. We sat through the movie twice that day. The next weekend they were clearing the theater between showings.
It is a pitiful shame that we lost the Cooper, and for that matter, Century 21 and the original Continental. (The latter is still with us, albeit grossly modified from its original beauty.) I must make a trip to Casper to see how their tribute to the Cooper turned out. Perhaps someday a new Cooper theater will be built in Denver.
I jokingly tell the young folks working at Barnes and Noble that I watched Star Wars “right here, in this exact spot.”