Hey wmann -
Great post. As I mentioned earlier I no longer live in the area but during a recent visit to South Jersey, I ate lunch with my wife and son at a really neat restuarant that has replaced the infamous Westmont Inn. If that location can be improved, then anything is possible!! Good leadership is the missing ingredient. Good luck!
Yo JBon -
I do remember the Eric. I saw Kramer vs Kramer there with my date, F.U.
HEY, Habitat For Humanity IS a wonderful organization but there are a lot of better uses for that structure. Something cultural, historical, artsy. Camden is loaded with places that could be used for a “HFH ReStore”.
Happy New Year!!
Lumpy
JBon, what is the old Collingswood theatre used for? I moved out of the area in 1984 and I don’t get back there very often. I remember going to the Westmont jacked up on Budweisers and doobies with my frat brothers to see The Exorcist and I would love to see something happen with that magnificent theatre but it would appear from 600 miles away that Haddon Twp is not being properly managed. I guess true movie afficianados would have a better chance of someday seeing the Collingswood Theatre resurrected due in part to the overall superiority of the administration that currently governs that town.
Great stuff on the “young lads from Camden” during the showing of the Linda Blair film. Big surprise there!
Lumpy
Anything new on the Logan? I too remember spending many happy Saturdays @ the Logan as well as the Rockland, the Broad and on rare occasions, the Esquire. Cartoons always were before the movies. The Dirty Dozen, the Three Stooges Movies and in 1967, my freshman year at “the Prep” I saw To Sir, With Love (LuLu and Judy Geeson were HOT!!).
I also remember as Jbon calls them the “other kids” and how they eventually took over and everything went to “hell in a handbasket”.
I don’t think that it will do much good to sink a lot of bucks into fixing the Logan up because the neighborhood is too far gone.
Lumpy
Hey wmann -
Great post. As I mentioned earlier I no longer live in the area but during a recent visit to South Jersey, I ate lunch with my wife and son at a really neat restuarant that has replaced the infamous Westmont Inn. If that location can be improved, then anything is possible!! Good leadership is the missing ingredient. Good luck!
Yo JBon -
I do remember the Eric. I saw Kramer vs Kramer there with my date, F.U.
HEY, Habitat For Humanity IS a wonderful organization but there are a lot of better uses for that structure. Something cultural, historical, artsy. Camden is loaded with places that could be used for a “HFH ReStore”.
Happy New Year!!
Lumpy
JBon, what is the old Collingswood theatre used for? I moved out of the area in 1984 and I don’t get back there very often. I remember going to the Westmont jacked up on Budweisers and doobies with my frat brothers to see The Exorcist and I would love to see something happen with that magnificent theatre but it would appear from 600 miles away that Haddon Twp is not being properly managed. I guess true movie afficianados would have a better chance of someday seeing the Collingswood Theatre resurrected due in part to the overall superiority of the administration that currently governs that town.
Great stuff on the “young lads from Camden” during the showing of the Linda Blair film. Big surprise there!
Lumpy
Anything new on the Logan? I too remember spending many happy Saturdays @ the Logan as well as the Rockland, the Broad and on rare occasions, the Esquire. Cartoons always were before the movies. The Dirty Dozen, the Three Stooges Movies and in 1967, my freshman year at “the Prep” I saw To Sir, With Love (LuLu and Judy Geeson were HOT!!).
I also remember as Jbon calls them the “other kids” and how they eventually took over and everything went to “hell in a handbasket”.
I don’t think that it will do much good to sink a lot of bucks into fixing the Logan up because the neighborhood is too far gone.
Lumpy