Saturday, July 29, 2006

pocket money

i remember when ...

it cost seven pence old money to get in to the athelstan cinema on a saturday afternoon

for which you saw

1. the trailers

2. if you were lucky, a western in colour starring james stewart or roy rogers or whoever ...

3. a serial, most of which were black and white pre-war stuff like flash gordon, and all of which ended with the clash of cymbals and the same words every time ...

"see next week's exciting episode !"



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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's almost enough for a pint in the Dukes.

tristan said...

that would be a pint for you and a bag of crisps for her ?

sterna said...

I'm just envious that you had a cinema named Athelstan.

tristan said...

it was built to entertain the american military in the months before d-day ... and named after a king of wessex whose tomb may or may not be in malmesbury abbey which is right next door