Old Manchester cinemas

[Sid C]

Six pages, and yet to be a mention of the Porno cinema clubs in the centre .... slacking BMer's .....

I'll resolve that. The cinafone (sic) on market street. First time I saw female pubes. Loved it.

The Scala in Withington was great after the baths, but special mention to the Palace off Stocky road. My first smelly finger.

 

[Big Swifty]

You were lucky. The Scala had double seats at the back, but the usherette used to go round shining a torch to see if anyone was up to mutual grubby fumbling. Or worse..........

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

I'll resolve that. The cinafone (sic) on market street. First time I saw female pubes. Loved it.

the Palace off Stocky road. My first smelly finger.

At times the Palace smelled like the chips on the other side of Albert Road.

Brought back memories of the Union Inn across the road in the days when Boddies was a great beer. The landlord was better at keeping his beer in good order than in spotting you were underage. Good on both grounds.

 

[Sid C]

At times the Palace smelled like the chips on the other side of Albert Road.

Brought back memories of the Union Inn across the road in the days when Boddies was a great beer. The landlord was better at keeping his beer in good order than in spotting you were underage. Good on both grounds.

Ha. Can't remember the smell of chips but fish yes.

Didn't really use the Union but was a regular for several years in the Packhorse just up the road, trying to get on the table football could take an hour plus a few rows. Good times.

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

Ha. Can't remember the smell of chips but fish yes.

Didn't really use the Union but was a regular for several years in the Packhorse just up the road, trying to get on the table football could take an hour plus a few rows. Good times.

The Packhorse was a bit more fussy about underage drinkers. Horseshoe in Chapel Street was OK but became a bit too Irish until St Mary's opened a bar once the moved the chruch from the old Grand cinema. The Railway was a bit dodgy for us, despite knowing the Dolan boxing family who are still about in the area.
Oops I have drifted away from cinemas to pubs - as I did in those days.

This might be of interest http://www.levyboy.com/around_town.htm. When I get on sites like that the old girl says I might as well hibernate.

 

[paulron32]

We used to walk to the Roxy every saturday (or was it sunday) afternoon to watch the matinee.
Lurch was very mean. He could have been one of my school teachers if he had only applied himself more.

Same here, we must have watched Empire Strikes Back about 10 weeks on the spin. Lurch was evil. Remember it with one screen, then they opened the mini (most of us have TVs bigger than the mini now). Managed to have 7 screens by the time they closed it down. Great memories.

 

[OB1]

The AABEN

The place for the discerning movie goer! Used to go there for the films the main chains weren't showing.

I recall queuing round the block with my Mum at the Gaumont on Oxford Road to see Sound of Music and just getting in but they only had single seats left so I had to sit on her knee. In later years notable queues for films were Jaws at the ABC on Deansgate and Return of the Jedi at the Odeon on Oxford Road. Saw a lot of James Bond movies over the years at that Odeon.

My local cinemas were mostly The Rex in Wilmslow and the Majestic in Macclesfield.

 

[Sid C]

The Packhorse was a bit more fussy about underage drinkers. Horseshoe in Chapel Street was OK but became a bit too Irish until St Mary's opened a bar once the moved the chruch from the old Grand cinema. The Railway was a bit dodgy for us, despite knowing the Dolan boxing family who are still about in the area.
Oops I have drifted away from cinemas to pubs - as I did in those days.

This might be of interest http://www.levyboy.com/around_town.htm. When I get on sites like that the old girl says I might as well hibernate.

Thanks Blau I loved that. Brought back some great memories but the photo of the Farmers Arms just made me shit myself. THAT was a hard pub.

I was actually brought up in Burnage but Levy was my 'hunting ground' :)

I too would rather talk about pubs but if we must get back on topic do you remember a cinema on Stocky rd further down towards Stockport on the right. I used to be taken there as a toddler. I think it was called the Eagle

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

Thanks Blau I loved that. Brought back some great memories but the photo of the Farmers Arms just made me shit myself. THAT was a hard pub.

I was actually brought up in Burnage but Levy was my 'hunting ground' :)

I too would rather talk about pubs but if we must get back on topic do you remember a cinema on Stocky rd further down towards Stockport on the right. I used to be taken there as a toddler. I think it was called the Eagle

You don't mean the Regal? Big place which later became the Levenshulme Bowling Alley and more recently a huge tow storey curry place where you can get all your can eat for a tenner. No beer though so you had to dash across the main road several times to get a pint in the Levenshulme between the loads of courses you could have.

We lived opposite the Kingsway so that was out of bounds because it was my dad's haunt and we would go to back street pubs in Fallowfield off Moseley Road and down Burnage Lane to the Vic and the Farmer's in Burnage. The Midway opposite the Levvy Farmers was also a rough house with at least one murder there.

To avoid being accused of not talking about cinemas I did mean that we lived opposite the Kingsway cinema! It burned down about 1960 just as we moved there. Not guilty!

 

[bezer57]

Remember my mum dropin me off at the cartoon cinema with some toffee a drink and a few bob for an ice cream then went shopin in town then meeting me outside after great memories!