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Bonz wrote:A quality wee cinema!
Did anybody go and see the Rocky Horror picture show there over the years?
You used to ge a wee bag with rice, toast, party hats etc to throw about at key parts of the film..... great days!!!
mrpattersonsir wrote:also, we got to go into the old balcony from time to time. you would enter up the old fire escape behind the cul de sac, and sit where the stalls used to be, watching the lights from the screens below flicker through holes in the floor. i loved it up there, it was really beautiful with all the ceiling mouldings. even though the buidling of the loft bar destroyed the rest of the cinema, the ceiling that is there now is a pretty good likeness to what went before - although the old one was red and gold. we were always promised a visit to the old salon, which at the time was still unused, but we never got to go. shame, that.
where i work now, we have a 120-seat cinema set up by the same company that did the old grosvenor. theres even the same old projection equipment here.
Bonz wrote:A quality wee cinema!
Did anybody go and see the Rocky Horror picture show there over the years?
You used to ge a wee bag with rice, toast, party hats etc to throw about at key parts of the film..... great days!!!
nodrog wrote:Fascinating, thanks for those memories!
Were there any old seats or anything in the balcony when you saw it?
One of the photos I managed to get through a hole in the wall during demolition also shows what looks like wooden screens at the back of the balcony; can you remember anything about that or what they might have been?
Where is it you're working now? Is that a Caledonian cinema?
You'll be amused to know its the same old projection equipment they're still using at the Grosvenor despite its classy makeover!
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