I lived on Carmine Street around the corner from the Waverly in the early 70’s when I was a kid. My Saturday mornings would often be spent in the balcony watching “The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad” and some Road Runner cartoons, overdosing on Milk Duds with Bunky Parker. $1.00 for a whole morning of cinema. The marquee read:“Special midnight screening- "Dawn Of The Dead”. I would PLEAD with my mom to let me go (She said no. I was nine.). I went to “Rocky Horror” there because my friend Maria was Magenta in the floor show. I was heart broken when they ripped out the balcony and turned it into a twin. I saw “Blue Velvet in the new, cramped space and thought how great it would have been with my feet up on the balcony wall.
I lived on Carmine Street around the corner from the Waverly in the early 70’s when I was a kid. My Saturday mornings would often be spent in the balcony watching “The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad” and some Road Runner cartoons, overdosing on Milk Duds with Bunky Parker. $1.00 for a whole morning of cinema. The marquee read:“Special midnight screening- "Dawn Of The Dead”. I would PLEAD with my mom to let me go (She said no. I was nine.). I went to “Rocky Horror” there because my friend Maria was Magenta in the floor show. I was heart broken when they ripped out the balcony and turned it into a twin. I saw “Blue Velvet in the new, cramped space and thought how great it would have been with my feet up on the balcony wall.