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Tonys Twostripes
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I am getting a bit nostalgic here but I was quite sad to see that the Odeon has shut down in York after 69 years of showing films. No doubt to be turned into more souless flats.
Since coming to York whenever I went to the Cinema I just preferred to go to the Odeon rather than the big Multiplex out of Town. There was just something homely and comfy about it. For me my two best memories are watching the Blair Witch Project there totally bemused like many others, sitting through the Passion of the Christ whilst some Jewish Students started wailing half through the film and when I was a very, very young my Mum taking me and my sister on the train to York and crying at the end of the Land Before Time.
Just wondering if anyone else has good/bad memories of the Odeon.
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was sad when i came to york earlier and saw thm boarding it up.
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Used to go clubbing on Saturday night at Toffs, Ziggys or wherever and if I met a lass - used to arrange to meet her on the Odeon steps the following evening. Only thing was, this was before I wore contacts and I was far too vain for specs, plus a shed load of beer didn't help the old memory - so recognition was always a bit hit and miss.
Still -had some good nights there and always time for a pint at the Lion & Lamb afterwards........(sigh)......... |
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My Dad took me too see "The Deep" there in about 1977. We parked round the back, and I slammed my thumb in the car door, and had to watch the film in agony. It was a dreadful film as well.
The nail went black & fell off, and never grew back the same.
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I saw Jaws 2 the night before my eleven plus (they weren't strict about certificates in those days) and nearly pooed myself when the yellow dingy thing suddenly inflated.
I always was more of a Lassie sort of guy, I suppose ........  |
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My Dad took me too see "The Deep" there in about 1977. We parked round the back, and I slammed my thumb in the car door, and had to watch the film in agony. It was a dreadful film as well.
The nail went black & fell off, and never grew back the same. |
 Dreadful!
Isn't it the one with Jacqueline Bisset's boobies?
Boobies
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| was sad when i came to york earlier and saw thm boarding it up. |
It didnt close untuil yesterday Bad attitude. 
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| was sad when i came to york earlier and saw thm boarding it up. |
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Always liked the Odeon. Remember my first film there was ahem... bambi. But, since the City Screen opened I've never gone back. It's much nicer, was cheaper than the rest last time I looked, shows good international films and has a bar. Are they opening another Odeon anywhere or is that it?
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:02 am Post subject: Re: Odeon Memories |
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| Tonys Twostripes wrote: |
No doubt to be turned into more souless flats.
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Is that the cinema on Blossom Street? From memory it's not the most attractive of buildings, but a lot of Odeons are listed buildings due to them being built in an Art Deco (or is it nouveau?) style. The one in Harrogate certainly is.
Did York have an ABC? I have fond memories of queuing to see blockbusters like Raiders of The Lost Arc and ET.
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I think York did have an ABC but couldnt be certain.
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| Always liked the Odeon. Remember my first film there was ahem... bambi. But, since the City Screen opened I've never gone back. It's much nicer, was cheaper than the rest last time I looked, shows good international films and has a bar. Are they opening another Odeon anywhere or is that it? |
Thats a good point actually. We can all get maudlin about the demise of something that was part of our youth, but in fairness, it was also an outdated shed of a cinema and there are more modern, comfortable alternatives.
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Did York have an ABC? I have fond memories of queuing to see blockbusters like Raiders of The Lost Arc and ET. |
I'm almost certain York had an ABC upto about 20 years ago, it is now M&S formally C&A,
Also in Fishergate there was the Rialto ( I was at this "gig")
other Picture Houses in York where the queues were stretching every weekend
Clifton
St George's
Tower
Regal
Regent
the above were known as "flee pits" and the stale smell was dreadful
........but the Odeon was always the top draw place to be with your sweetheart (expensive though over 2 bob to get in on Friday night)......or to the Tower with an old boiler for a tanner!
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My mum went to that concert Will.
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I saw the Beatles at the Rialto - not that gig tho Willin - there was Gerry and the Pacemakers and Roy Orbison on the bill though.
Oh I feel very old 
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You feel Old 
........just wait until the likes of MarkW asks if your his Dad, ......then come and tell me you feel old.
I also made the Gerry Marsden performance along with the "fab four" .......was Freddie and the Dreamers not on the same bill?
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I always went to the Odeon, it was better than the Ritz in Selby!
I remember one time I went on a Suzuki 550 borrowed from a mate (my 550/4 had been totalled when a twit in a Cortina pulled out in front of me at the bottom of the railway bridge in Selby & I went over the bonnet!  ), after the film we came out & the Suzuki had been stolen! The perfect end to a perfect night, though the manager did pay for a taxi to take us home to Selby - top man .
The bike later turned up behind a pub in Heworth Green (shoulder of mutton I think?), all the ba****ds had wanted was half a tank of petrol & the tax disk!
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Have to say I was very keen on the all night showings at the Odeon after Grobs threw us out...
Woodstock, The Song Remains the Same and Pink Floyd at Pompeii every time...nice
That's unless you pulled of course.
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The bike later turned up behind a pub in Heworth Green (shoulder of mutton I think?), all the ba****ds had wanted was half a tank of petrol & the tax disk! |
My local for a number of years the S of M in the late sixties, stands on the Malton Road. There were no Suzuki 550 about in those days, just BSA, Norton, Ariel and Triumph's with the odd Honda 50 just breaking onto the scene, that said the Shoulder was a respectable establishment........ besides we could make tax disks better than the Post Office sold them so never the need to rob them of Jap bikes.
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Yes I think Freddie was on the bill also Willin and possibly Billy J Kramer?
I was only about 9 or so at the time - but pleased my mam had the foresight to take me so I can say I saw the Beatles play live
The Odeon has lots of happy memories for me - I used to like going to the Saturday morning club there - I think it was a tanner to get in. In my early "groping" days as a 12 year old it was a cheap date to take a girl - a grope of a flat chested pre teenager all for a few old pennies
I remember watching the official film of the 1966 world cup "Goal" at the Odeon - in full colour - I think I stayed in the cinema and watched it though more than twice! (I had a vhs copy of that film somewhere - anybody got a copy they could loan me? Please!)
Of the cinemas mentioned above I remember the tower the ABC St Georges and the Clifton - although evidently when I was a 2 year old My dad and mam took me and my sister to the Regent every Friday - a bag of sweets and a film was our weekly treat (but have no memories of it  )
Very sad that the Odeon has closed BUT I personally have not been to it in years and I spose if me and others who are mourning the passing of the Odeon had frequented it more often then it would still be showing films today!
Oh and Willin - I played football for the Shoulder of Mutton Football team in the early 70s!
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There were no Suzuki 550 about in those days, just BSA, Norton, Ariel and Triumph's with the odd Honda 50 just breaking onto the scene, that said the Shoulder was a respectable establishment........ besides we could make tax disks better than the Post Office sold them so never the need to rob them of Jap bikes.
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Good God Will, you're even older than I thought you were!
My first bike was a Honda C50 ( ), I got it when I was 16 - managed to convince the 'old man' it was a moped! I had a whole 45MPH available when my mates on proper peds struggled to get over 30!
The incident in qustion was circa 1988/81, was it still a 'respectable establishment' then?
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Remeber walking out half way through the titanic in 97'.
But my main memories of the Odeon are actually of sitting outside it in the bus stop drinking cider.
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Woodstock, The Song Remains the Same and Pink Floyd at Pompeii every time...nice
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Wow! Deeuu actually has good tastes in films!
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Thanks to all of you who have actually made me feel young
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The incident in qustion was circa 1988/81, was it still a 'respectable establishment' then? |
I have no idea, although it's still there, I moved on to pastures new in 1970 to the highly salubrious drinking den known as the Imperial Hotel down Kingsway North, in this pub one was able to purchase any European Passport for a monkey and Cortina cars with previous for under £80.
This place was fired in the late eighties never to re-open on police advice and finally demolished about 15/18 years ago.
To be fair to the old place and the locals of the day, The York Imperial RL team were based out of this pub and recognised as one of the strongest amateur sides in Yorkshire 40 odd years back making the RL cup first round proper in 1963 when Eddie "It's an up n under" "early bath"Waring spent the night in the Imperials best tap room and lived to tell the tale.
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hmmmm. watching oceans 11 on my own and being victimised by little shits who took it upon themselves to pelt my head with popcorn whilst giving 'v-signs' onto the front of the projection light this ruining the film completely.
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........just wait until the likes of MarkW asks if your his Dad, ......then come and tell me you feel old.
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Or when the offspring of these sixties bands are forum users
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I wonder how the Odeon group remember City fans? As arsonists probably....
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