Methuselah
Player Valuation: £35m
I went to Penny Lane for Liverpool Schoolboy trials. Played in a proper match (1949) but still didn't hear anything further. My excuse was that I was only 13 and the older lads all looked like men!
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tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
A familiar tale from an oldie.
Half term adds an extra level of grandparent duties. You're expected to dig a bit deeper in your pocket and keep the children amused for the whole day, not just pre and post school time.
So this week I've had two trips to the cinema and this is for me, the real eye opener. Tickets are cheap enough, but boy, talk about the extras.
Slush, popcorn, meal deals (doritos with nachos chilli and jalapeños at 1030 in the morning?) exorbitantly priced sweets, hot dogs, drinks and the novelties associated with the film itself, the list is endless. The kids queuing up seem to rattle off these requests at machine gun pace seemingly talking another language. What an experience.
And I don't know if I should put this in the "last film you watched" thread, but Alladin despite the presence of Will Smith was a good watch, but give Pokemon Detective Pikachu a miss.
Half term adds an extra level of grandparent duties. You're expected to dig a bit deeper in your pocket and keep the children amused for the whole day, not just pre and post school time.
So this week I've had two trips to the cinema and this is for me, the real eye opener. Tickets are cheap enough, but boy, talk about the extras.
Slush, popcorn, meal deals (doritos with nachos chilli and jalapeños at 1030 in the morning?) exorbitantly priced sweets, hot dogs, drinks and the novelties associated with the film itself, the list is endless. The kids queuing up seem to rattle off these requests at machine gun pace seemingly talking another language. What an experience.
And I don't know if I should put this in the "last film you watched" thread, but Alladin despite the presence of Will Smith was a good watch, but give Pokemon Detective Pikachu a miss.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Likewise with me at the Savoy in Birkenhead.
Now that was a half decent cinema in as much as they must have employed cleaners. Unlike the Colosseum on Old Chester Road in Rock Ferry, which believe me must have been the biggest flea pit going. It was dreadful.
Methuselah
Player Valuation: £35m
Used to go there every Saturday morning. There used to be a shop round the back that sold sticky lice.
LEONARD
Player Valuation: £60m
A barber's also I remember.
Short back and sides, then he would whack on the Brylcreem, even if you didn't want it.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Every day I tut more, the poor toaster gets a bashing in the morning.
...the goalie in the Liverpool Boys team I played in went to St Matthews, he went on to be a professional in the lower leagues. Sadly, many of those great old schools have gone now.
Methuselah
Player Valuation: £35m
Don't remember the barbers Leonard. The barbers we used was the one near the railway bridge in Walton Village. I have nightmares about Walton Village. About 100 yards from the barbers there was a butcher's shop. Me and my brother used to have to go there to get a couple of rabbits (rabbits were off ration during the war). The queue used stretch about a dozen yards outside the shop and the butcher used to 'dress' the rabbits one at a time for each customer. It took ages and we used to stand in the rain and freezing cold. Mum used to cook good rabbit stew though, tender like chicken.
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
Same with us,probably why Saunders didn't bother looking too closely. Although one of the three made it to the squad stage,but that was only because they found out his Dad was an ex-pro and his brother was at Everton.The one good thing that came from it for me was meeting Ronnie Goodlass and Alan Wilson,so getting a good acces to tickets a few years later.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Vaguely remember this.
The Garston Empire was a bit of a flea pit, compared to the art deco splendor of the Gaumont on Allerton Rd...(or as my Gran used to call it The Plaza, not sure when it was renamed ) but then if funds were short we'd go to a proper flea pit - The Lyceum on St Marys Rd - 4d instead of 6d
Methuselah
Player Valuation: £35m
Our two were the Victoria and the Regal (Broadway). Not bad cinema's actually. Used to go with my brother - 'take two in please'. Six of us from 'our gang' went once, we quickly found out that 'take six in please' didn't work!
....there was virtually a pub and cinema in every couple of roads. We had the Hippodrome cinema at the top of our street and the Lytton cinema in the next. The Boars Head pub a few doors up.
Methuselah
Player Valuation: £35m
When we moved to Leeds, one of our local cinema's was the Hyde Park. It is still there and has been used in many TV programs and films. Before I went in the army, in the early 1950's, if there was a film on at the Hyde Park that I wanted to see, I phoned and booked. Otherwise, you were queueing for ages. A week after I was demobbed in 1957 I noticed that there was a film on I wanted to see. I phoned to book and there was silence at the other end. Finally, the bloke said 'you don't have to book'. When I got in, it was half empty. The effect of Television in the two years I had been in Singapore. My parents didn't have a TV before I went in the army but like millions of others, they had one when I came out. Social history that.
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