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In article <dberkes-1701981653390001@tatertot.com>, dberkes@wyrm.supernews.com (Dan Berkes-Lemos) wrote:
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>From: dberkes@wyrm.supernews.com (Dan Berkes-Lemos)
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>Subject: Re: Last of an era
>Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:53:38 -0800
>Organization: Some day, perhaps...
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>In article <68qesq$2tg_002@primenet.primenet.com>, strait@primenet.com wrote:
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>> It's now a little after 3:00am and I am going to have trouble waking up
>in the 
>> morning to go to work.  But, as a dreamer, I felt a need to pay my respects 
>> this evening to an old friend.  I also felt it was important to leave this 
>> post for those to read, to at least take a moment to reflect on a
>passing era. 
>> 
>> I just came home from watching the very last movie showing of the Cine' Capri
>
>NO! NO NO NO NO NO! Oh, damn.
>
>I grew up in Phoenix, now live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I have
>plenty of fond memories of the Cine Capri. I saw Star Wars and Empire
>Strikes Back (and waited in line six hours for each on opening day). Those
>comfy chairs and icy blasts of air conditioning were just perfect on a
>sizzling summer day, especially when I lived in apartment which had "swamp
>cooled" air. Midnight movies with friends are too countless to remember.
>Wallace and Ladmo even did a show or two there in the early eighties,
>before a kiddie matinee (That's how I got my Ladmo Bag!). The last movie I
>saw there before leaving Phoenix was Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade. 
>
>And all for a few bloody parking spaces. We'll never learn, will we?
>
>-- 
> Dan Berkes-Lemos  \\//  dberkes@wyrm.supernews.com
>"This life is stranger than fiction" -- Duran Duran
>        


I didn't remember Wallace & Ladmo did shows ther too.  I attended one at the 
Fox Christown theater before it burned down (where the Harkins is now).  They 
tore down the Kachina to build the Galleria so it could go bust.