Quote Originally Posted by arr&bee View Post
They let you in because your money was green[hehe]remember as kids we would hang with our gang and think that it would never get better.
There was an old porn theater in my neighborhood that somebody bought and fixed up a little. They showed blaxploitation and kung fu movies. One of the very best times of my life was when, in 7th and 8th grade, me and my buddies would drop a dollar and go see something new every Friday night. We saw the best kung fu movies [[which were also the worst kung fu movies, by the way). We saw Pam Grier's boobies on a large screen. We saw all sorts of everything and it was better because I was with my dudes having a great time.

I'll never forget the time when they finally got a copy of Bruce Lee's "Return of the Dragon" [[aka "Way of the Dragon") after advertising it to be coming "next week" for half a year. We all showed up, excited but found that they raised the price that night from $2 to $5 and none of us could afford to go in. We saw older cats dressed up in their best gear walking in with their dates like they were going to the Playa's Ball. I was so pissed off. Sometime in the summer before 9th grade, the city shut down the theater, having found rats and other creepy things crawling around. We didn't see anything with the lights turned off.