[QUOTE]Originally posted by FilmWolf
[the old Uptown Theatre (which is sadly long gone)

Ah, the Uptown. I grew up in that theatre (as well as its sister, the Riviera, across the street). I cannot tell you how many movies I saw there. I used to go every Saturday afternoon during the mid-Sixties with all my friends to the double (occasionally triple) feature. I also saw "The Ten Commandements" for the first time there ("So it shall be written, so it shall be done") as well as "The Sound Of Music".

As for the Riviera, it was where my mother took me to see "Cleopatra" and where I saw "2001 A Space Odyssey" for the second time. (The first was at the Cinestage in that wonderful format Cinerama.)

About a mile north was the Bryn Mawr theatre. If you could wait (and wait and wait) EVERYTHING played there. I went to the last show (Robert Zemeckis' "Used Cars") and cried real tears after it closed.