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Chriskay wrote;
I was a projectionist at both the Plaza & the Ritz

Were you at the Ritz when Bill and Jean Boht were there?

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Jean Boht the actress, Bread?


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I was there when Bill Boht was manager, although I don't remember Jean (yes, Bread).


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Check the Cinemas thread here from Post 317142 and the Pathe News clip at Post 358701.

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Here's a bit more on local cinemas history for you locals:

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i used to stand outside the essoldo selling the echo in the mid 50s. the matinees saturday morning were magic all the silver paper flying down when the organ came up priceless. what was the organists name it was uncle somebody.

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Uncle Frank I think

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Frank Gordon, resident from 1951 to 1957, approx. Died 1995.
Here's a pic, but not at the Ritz console.

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Does anyone have any pictures of the foyer of the Ritz, with the staircase and the ticket booths and kiosk. My memory is a bit vague, but I seem to remember thick red carpeting and loads of mirrors. Also, it seemed to me as a little'un that you had a fair old walk to the actual auditorium, and I seem to remember walking past display cases. Is this right, or is my memory jumbled up?

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Originally Posted by tom54
Does anyone have any pictures of the foyer of the Ritz, with the staircase and the ticket booths and kiosk.


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Does anyone have any pictures of the foyer of the Ritz, with the staircase and the ticket booths and kiosk.


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Seeing all those pictures of the old cinemas - especially the interiors - makes me think how grateful we should be to all those people who had the the presence of mind to make pictorial records of thes beautiful buildings in their hayday. At the time, they couldn't possibly have known how relatively short-lived these buildings would be. It's just a pity that these photos weren't in colour.

Also, it makes me despair how short-sighted the powers-that-be were to let these treasures be demolished or gutted so easily.




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Just randomly clicked on this page and loved reading your memories. Did the 'old gits' page get off the ground?

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don't remember a picture house where argos is but there was one in between the ice bar and sherlocks and another where weatherspoons is argyle street

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