Lime
Street was home to many cinemas, none of which are still in operation.
"During
the war years, our weekly entertainment was a penny to go to the
Assembly Rooms. The popular fellows in those days were Charlie Chaplin,
Mary Pickford, Pearl White etc."
"The
front page of the Liverpool Echo never had news on it, it was just
cinema adverts. And when you went to the Plaza in Allerton, all
marble, fountains, grand staircases, it was magnificent."
"They
used to have restaurants in the cinema. Do the matinee, have afternoon
tea, then go to another cinema at night. You would get short films,
the news reel and the feature film, the trailers would come before
the news reel."
"There
were two news theatres, one opposite to where Owen Owens is."
"In
the Tatler, they did a trailer for 3D, but their glasses were real
posh spectacles so they actually had two men who you would call
bouncers on the door, taking the glasses back off everyone as we
came out."
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