Thanks Josephine. Looks all "new" around there (Google map). Thought that Wizard of Oz was scary too. Actually the movie effects are still well done, even by today's standards. Glad you are enjoying the site. (;-)) Edna - Ottawa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Bristol cinemas... On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:11:21 -0000, liverpud <liverpud-49@rogers.com> wrote: > Hi Josephine, I remember seeing "Bambi" and "Wizard of Oz" downtown > Bristol but not sure of the cinema. Had to walk down from Trinity St. > through lots of rubble from the bombings. Hi Edna, You would have gone to one of the city cinemas like the Odeon in Union Street, Bristol and you would have seen the same bombed-out streets that I saw as a child. Ian reckons that there was still evidence of bomb damage in Bristol in the late 1960s, but I must have been so used to it by then that I didn't take any notice. I saw the Wizard of Oz at the Vandyck Cinema, Fishponds perhaps seven or eight years later than you saw it in Bristol. I thought it was scary, but even more frightening was the 1958 film about the sinking of the Titanic, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, which I saw at The Regal, Staple Hill with my Mum. She thought it was going to be a comedy as we had previously seen the 1953 film, Genevieve, starring Kenneth More. The link you've given to the Bristol cinema photographs has brought back all sorts of memories, not only of the films but of looking through Bristol's Evening Post to see what was on, the excitement in waiting in the queue to get in and buying little tubs of ice cream from the usherette in the interval. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message