I was in Torquay on holiday in 1989 and I vividly remember that outside our B&B was a billboard with the Batman logo on it. That thing was EVERYWHERE!
Our multiplex of choice (the only one local to us in 1986, when we all started driving) was The Point in MK and that still stands today but is pretty much derelict. Our local Odeon (which shut down the old fleapit in town Alison & I spent a lot of dates at before we got married) is in the process of being torn down now, so there's no cinema in Kettering at all now.
Yes, it breaks my heart to see so many cinemas disappearing. I fear there will be more and more over the next ten years. I'm so glad I grew up when I did. We lived through a golden age.
We really did. Dude (he's 21 this year) and I drove past the old Kettering cinema yesterday and he remembered being taken there a lot through his childhood. But the horrible fact is, most kids these days don't go to the cinema, they don't watch TV, they don't shop in town centres, which is why all that is dying. Very sad.
I was in Torquay on holiday in 1989 and I vividly remember that outside our B&B was a billboard with the Batman logo on it. That thing was EVERYWHERE!
Our multiplex of choice (the only one local to us in 1986, when we all started driving) was The Point in MK and that still stands today but is pretty much derelict. Our local Odeon (which shut down the old fleapit in town Alison & I spent a lot of dates at before we got married) is in the process of being torn down now, so there's no cinema in Kettering at all now.
Sad days, eh?
Yes, it breaks my heart to see so many cinemas disappearing. I fear there will be more and more over the next ten years. I'm so glad I grew up when I did. We lived through a golden age.
We really did. Dude (he's 21 this year) and I drove past the old Kettering cinema yesterday and he remembered being taken there a lot through his childhood. But the horrible fact is, most kids these days don't go to the cinema, they don't watch TV, they don't shop in town centres, which is why all that is dying. Very sad.