JAWS at the bioscope!

[Michael Alexander]

I don't remember the year, but it was in the 70's when the movie JAWS came to town ... Who remembers the big cut out of JAWS that was hung above the enterance to the bioscope? What year was that?

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[wendymasterton]

Hmmmm not sure Mike... I do remember trying to get posters of everything that was shown so that I could put them onto my bedroom wall.....those were the days  ;D


Wendy

[Michael Alexander]

I thought the girls back then , only had posters of George Michaels on their walls, leat alone big beastie sharks......

;D

remember the easter weekend busses?

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hehehehe!

[Shola Schreuder]

I was too young for jaws...

But I do remember going to the bioscope with only R5 and buying a ticket, plus enough goodies to make me sick to my stomach and still going home with change only to spend it the next day on more sickening goodies!

Now you barely buy toffees with R5...

[Paul Alexander]

Sure, but with the carrent pricing at SPAR one can understand why things are so unaffordable... :)  :)

[Vikki de Jager]

I don't remember Jaws, but I think the first movie I remember was Bambi. I also remember the blue leather seats, and that if we were bored during the movie it was fun to crawl underneath them and pop up into a seat elsewhere !! And remember when the film on the reel used to break or the reel would need to be changed (at least once per showing) and suddenly all the lights would go on and you'd have to wait until the person up in the projector room had fixed it.

[Stephen Brooke]

Now I'll give away my age......I remember the seats BEFORE the blue ones!  Reddish material they were.  And the screen curtain....GREY with black trees.  I was there the day the projectionist, Mr Myers?(always in a white coat) officially announced the new seating in use....Of course we all applauded in response as we did before most of the films started... :D

[Michael Alexander]

Those chairs you mention are now in the Optima Lodge temple, they were never thrown away....

:P

[Ann Gander (nee Greenway)]

I remember the red seats, the Apathe News, Cartoon, Serial (one of which was Lightning - which lasted 13 weeks) then the big features.  And all for just 10 cents.

[Robert Bruce]

Yeah! The Lighning in b&w. Cor that was serial we used to crave. And sneaking in at night to see the adult movies....!

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

Was a bit too young for Jaws at the bioscope but do have some good memories of going to watch movies there. Who can remember the projectionist writing messages to people who had left their car lights on whilst the "forthcoming attractions" were playing, also the very badly typed adverts? Who would have thought that nowadays it is a nightclub!

[Claire Mc Cullagh]

don't remember jaws - but I do remember Laurence going with (I think) Stephen, Michael and Paul. But I wasn't allowed to go because I was too young.
When I got older I remember checking which bar my mom and dad were in so that I could go to the other one for a drink.
I remember sitting in the TV lounge of the Rec club - those were the days.

Bicycle rides to the beach with the youth club.  The older ones used to sunbathe topless  on the roof of the yaught club.

[georg ruf jr.]

Hi Michael.
I remember very well. It was my 12th birthday. Scared the sh*t out of me. Saw the movie with Mark van Greunen. That was quite a topic in OM at that time. Come to think of what movies are made like nowadays.
They showed a cartoon with Tom and Jerry. I rember I couldn't stop laughing all the the way. Felt a bit ashamed, cause the rest hardly ever laughed.
After the movie we would joke about how dangerous it could be putting your toe into a puddle.
The music...
dadum dadum... getting faster and faster.
Did you bother reading the book. Just good enough to use as wallpaper in the lavetry. But at that age it was sensational. Remember Andy Morrow borrowing it to me from his dad. (The late Ivan Morrow)
There were some parts in the book a Stephen Spielberg would never have put in a movie at that time...

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

Those magnificent men in their flying machines was a big film in O/M in 65.....and it was on the telly here yesterday

Sound of Music had us all heading for convents and singing the songs and re playing the scenes......well some of us

Mary Poppins.............best film ever.....didnt see this film again then for about 30 years.....so seeing it now reminds me of O/M

[georg ruf jr.]

We've watched Mary Poppins several times with our daughter. You really start enjoying it, because she enjoys it so much. Seeing that she only just turned 5, we only watch about 10 to 20 minutes at a time. Takes a while till you've seen all of it. Then she knows some of the songs (plenty of other songs anyway) by heart. So she's always singing along...