Age check - ever been to a movie theater with a balcony?

[ThoughtCriminal]

And when was the last time?

I'm sure there are a few still around that have been restored.

Me:
Yes, about 1973 - but the balcony was closed.

[Wickerman]

1. worked in two of them.

:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Yep, 1982?

It was around 81-82...i was 5 or 6

[yvr girl]

3. I would guess 1989

There was one in the town I grew up in.

[Wilber_Stool]

4. Yep

The York and the Mercury. And there was a stage behind the screen. It turned me into a theater snob. Can't stand the multi-plex bullshit.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Several

Not saying where, not saying when

:P

[sundog]

6. lots of newer theaters have them too

amc in japantown, san fran has one

[Missy M]

7. Yes, first row in the balcony is the best seat in the house...

and I have been to many theaters with balconies but can't remember when the last time was.

[Ron Green]

8. When I was coming up, the balcony was for black people only

and the main floor was for the whites. How many y'all seen that?

[terrya]

9. Of course...I remember movie theater balconies quite well.

:-)

[ET Awful]

10. Yup, what year did Close Encounters come out? That was the last

time I can clearly remember being at a theater with a balcony.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. I saw Airplane in one

in NYC in the early 80s. People could smoke up there. It was pretty weird.

[LaurenG]

12. As a kid in the old Plaza theater in Texas. nt

[leftofthedial]

13. yup. loads

then, in teh 70's it seemed many old theaters either close doutright or converted the balcony into a separate small theater.

Now a few have been restored.

I miss 'em. It was teenage make-out territory . . .

[smitty]

14. balconies

I grew up near a theater with a balcony. Unfortunately, during the 70s, it went multiplex and the balcony was torn out.

[Eugene]

15. Yes, around 1982.

The balcony was open. That theater was
later multiplexed and I haven't gone there since.

[Left_Winger]

16. Yes

I began going to the movies in the 1960s.

[trof]

17. Oh yeah. This one time Warren Simpson...?

He was my nutty buddy.
Went to the Alabama Theater (Mentioned in another thread...very swank) with a rubber hot water bottle (before the era of plastic baggies) full of Campbell's Vegetarian Vegetable Soup under his jacket.

Sat in the balcony.
At a crucial part of the movie, he leaned over the balcony rail, went "URRRGGGHHH", and poured the soup on the audience below.

Absolute panic and mayhem ensued.
It was very dark, especially in the balcony, and he wasn't caught.
He was a nut.
RIP, Warren.

[seemunkee]

18. Uptown theater in DC has always had one

[Tyrone Slothrop]

19. Yep, several

Last time was a few weeks ago at the BAM Rose in Brooklyn.