Saturday Crush /Tuppeny Flicks

[barry1010]

Whatever you called it - the children's club at the local cinema. Every Saturday morning the doors would be flung open to welcome a horde of screaming kids to a delight of a film, a running series and cartoons, minus adults.
My grandchildren can't believe it happened, they think it's madness and I must agree with them :D
It was bedlam. We threw sweets at each other, sneaked our pals in through the back door, spilt pop everywhere, stuck bubble gum to the seats, screamed throughout and generally ran amok.

What on earth was the cinema bosses thinking? It must have cost more in cleaning up than they took. Could this be revived today?

We come along on Saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a smile.
We come along on Saturday morning
Knowing it is well worth while.
As members of the GB club
We all intend to be
Good citizens when we grow up
and champions of the free.
We come along on Saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a smile, smile, smile.
Greeting everybody with a smile.

[dannyk13]

.That brings back memories, opening the fire doors to let mates in.

[Jackdaw33]

I remember it well. Those poor usherettes must have dreaded it.

[Peter Pedant]

// It must have cost more in cleaning up than they took.//

I dont recollect the cleaning bit - do you remember what they smelt like? Flea pit....

[mallyh]

i remember going to our village hall on a saturday morning where a biggish screen was put up, we watched roy rogers and other films and were given a packet of ovaltine at the end ,great times x

[davebro]

We would fasten our macs around the neck like a cape & pretend to be Batman or Zorro on the way home.

[Peter Pedant]

oh tell the granschildren about watching the bacon slicer....

[1ozzy]

I like bacon slicers, could watch them all day

[-SharonA-]

Yes I went to my local cinema on a Saturday morning. Saw some great films and there was a guy on a great big organ that disappeared into the floor.
Great times.

[tamborine]

Those were the days ;)

[barry1010]

I have an electric slicer and the grandkids have seen the big ones in action in my butchers.

I was never keen on the series they showed but I did like the cartoons - all Loony Tunes, I think. We all booed when the film broke, bet that doesn't happen now.

Can't remember the last time I went to the cinema, probably that awful Titanic film 20 odd years ago.

[piggynose]

We mustve been either posh or lived in a nice area. There was never any bedlam or noise just happy sat mornings.

[davebro]

//We all booed when the film broke, bet that doesn't happen now.//

Not in modern cinemas - the films are distributed on computer hard drives I think.

[david small]

Sadly I couldn’t afford the tuppence to go on a Saturday. As one of seven kids it worked out too expensive.

[Bobbisox1]

It terrified me being upstairs in the front row when my brother leaned right over to throw sweets and those below , I was so scared he’d fall over , he never did :0))

[Buenchico]

Just another quiet morning for cinema staff ;-)
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I wasn't allowed to go to the ABC in Ipswich, Tamborine. My mother considered that to be the cinema where all the common, rough children went to - although I've no idea where she got that particularly notion from! I went to the Gaumont, which my mother considered posher, with instructions to sit upstairs (for 9d), rather than downstairs (for 6d), as my mother considered that to make it even posher ;-)

What was showing on the screen was never that important. It was just being out with your mates, with no parents around, that made it so much fun. The Children's Film Foundation movies were always the best though!

[dannyk13]

Chris //I wasn't allowed to go to the ABC //
The ABC was considered upper class compared with the local 'bug hole' as it was affectionally known.

[davebro]

The Palace was Sat mornings. Other locals were The Palladium & The Empire. If you wanted posh you went to The Odeon in the next town.

[bobbie22]

I remember it well. It was 3d to sit downstairs and 6d to sit in the balcony. I loved it and we had serial films ie. a new episode of the same thing every week.

[barry1010]

I always took a quarter of wine gums with me :D

[fourteen85]

yes happy memories, I went to The Roxy at Holinwood near Failsworth, I remember seeing Batman and I think I recall Flash Gordon as well, this would be mid 1960,s