Stephen Jones
"Can Lynette go to the pitchas" mostly it was "No!". If I was permitted to go, the team and I would march through the streets singing "we're the gang from Woolloomooloo, from Woolloomooloo we are, We fight them all big and small no matter who they are, OOh W-double O-double L-double O-M-double O ??"
The entrance fee was 9 pence for two feature films plus a serial, usually the Lone Ranger ... I was able to purchase all the goodies afore mentioned with the change!! During interval we would do a quick loop of the Cross, hoping to spot a film star or entertainer, on one memorable occasion we were fortunate enough to see Elizabeth Taylor make a grand appearance on the steps of Hampton Court. She was so incredibly tiny. After interval we'd join up with the boys from school and I don't think we really watched very much of the second film
Such a magnificent old block, now replaced by The Crest Hotel; with its Goldfish Bowl Restaurant, the King's Cross Police Station at the rear. No newsagents, fruit shop, arcade, flower shop, dry cleaners .. just a memory.
In 1963 this theatre was transformed into a surfing dance venue, bereft of seats it would be host to hundreds of local and suburban teens ...... all gone forever!!
Les Q said...
ReplyDeletehey Lynn, the blonde kid on the far right looks like me in my school pics.....what was his name?
minerva said...
If it's the tall boy on the end, that was Johnny Norton (the only jewish boy in school. He used to have to stand in the corridor with his diaphram on his head and a man (?) rabbi would talk to him while we were in scripture (real church). It was never explained to us. (I had no idea my family was jewish at this point). Most thought he had leprosy.
Mick said...
Fantastic blog Lynn...you have certainly paid your dues.
Brought back lots of memories - I lived in Womerah Ave/Surrey St as a youngun and came back to the dance/music scene to places like Rhubarbs/Surf City.
Great Times!! Mick
Kings Cross Theatre. Friday night's with mum and the Loo families, back there on Saturday afternoon, for the same movie, but a serial episode added. No wonder we went silly and disrupted the audience, during the second feature. Usherettes chasing us everywhere, until Frank Crack, the manager threw us out!
ReplyDeleteLoved the cross pictures, also the Metro. Went to Darlo in 1955 and lived in Barcom Avenue. Remember getting kicked out of the Cross pictures for chucking 'throw downs'LOL. Like you I spent my high school years at Dover Heights. I must have been a year behind you. Elizabeth Malone was in my primary classes and lived just down from me. Still remember her well.
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