re: Name your favorite movie theatre growing up

The Strand, in Kosciusko, MS was where I saw all of the great Westerns, War movies, Horror movies and other great movies that weren't kid's movies.

It's been restored, but I don't know if they show movies.






The two small red brick buildings to the right weren't there when I moved away in 1974. Back then there was a huge unlit vacant lot. The bad kids loitered there smoking and drinking. Sometimes you could smell the wacky weed being burned, but not out in the open. They could have probably put you in jail for a decade for simple possession during the period I lived there (1967-1974).

In junior high my mom would drop me off on Friday and Saturday nights to watch the movie. Lots of times I waited a few minutes, then went back out and hung out with the bad kids. More often than not, I stayed on the sidewalk out front. I smoked lots of cigarettes out there, but no weed.

The men's room was always full because they allowed smoking in there. You could barely get through the people smoking to a urinal. It was like a hallway. You had to pee with nothing between you and six or seven guys. I was in fourth grade the first time I went in there. I think the first time I went in there, I walked out, waited a while, hoping some guys would leave, then went back in. It was still full. I just said F it and peed. It wasn't quite as bad as standing on the edge of the wall length urinals of Tiger Stadium, where you also had to also worry about falling in.

Can't get image to load. Village 6 Theater.

Worst theater in town so never had a hard time getting a good seat. Actually wasn't that bad if everything worked correctly. This was in Mobile.

We had a theatre growing up that was a blast to the past and had a cult following... They would play movies others wouldn't before obscure, Indies or foreign were widely shown.

First 4 rows were reclined seats on the floor like lazy boys so you were in perfect position to look up at the screen...and if the movie sucked you could fall asleep.

Middle rows were traditional seats.

Back row was the make out row, A date two-seater “loveseat” bench with side walls and pillows...enclosing you in privacy.

The entire theater was old school ornate, with mosaic chandelier lighting and redwood heavy front doors, It was like traveling back in time to The Majestic.

None of the theaters I grew up with are open up anymore. Cinemark Tinseltown (which was a fantastic theater) killed off all 4 theaters in my hometown.

My favorite will always be the tiny 3 screen in a strip mall in the 80s and 90s.

Saw BTTF3, Home Alone, Ferngully, Batman, TMNT, and a host of other definitive movies there.

Iron Man was the last movie they showed there and my wife and I saw it on a whim after not going there for years with the new Cinemark because they were about to close and I asked her to close it out with me.

The Palace - Elmwood - the place was huge 20 screens!

Monroe

- Plaza Plitt at Twin City Mall! I got in line at 6am for Empire Strikes Back. What a time to be alive. I still remember feeling like it was my birthday, Christmas and the first day of summer all happening at the same time

- Eastgate Cinema GOAT had Towering Inferno for like 6 straight months. Hit the Thrift store next door for some hostess 'rejects', check out the toy section of Genevas and if we were lucky, we might get a burlap sack ride down the SUPERSLIDE across the street.

- Cinema III next to K-mart. Felt like a gangsta when I went to the bathroom after watching "Wrath of Khan" and then sneaking back in to see it a second time.

In my universe, there was no other theater.

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