OLD CARDIFF CINEMAS' ! Is your favorite here (The County)

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What was the one called on the corner of the Newport Rd/Wentloog Rd jct? Was that County?

Heard the Prince Of Wales was good back in the day.

No Rialto or Tivoli ?

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Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker

What was the one called on the corner of the Newport Rd/Wentloog Rd jct? Was that County?

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It was, indeed, the County Cinema. I recall it very fondly having begun going there for Saturday morning matinees in the late 1950's. A few years later the County was THE meeting place in the area for Rumney / Llanrumney teenagers and it's where I met my first wife. At the time, there was little else to do or find entertainment if you were just too young for the pub. Few on a Saturday evening went to see the film - the object was to walk around in the dark trying to find a female willing to agree to your sitting next to her, begin a conversation and take it where you could.

It would get pretty steamy on occasions and the then manageress - one Doris Stoodley - would be prowling around ready shine her torch on and if necessary eject, any couple seen to be taking things too far. Anyone else old enough to remember Doris? As I say, very happy days with no worries bar where and with who the next encounter would arise.

I imagine all the suburban Cardiff cinemas at the time would have been the same?

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Originally Posted by Cowbridge Blue

It was, indeed, the County Cinema. I recall it very fondly having begun going there for Saturday morning matinees in the late 1950's. A few years later the County was THE meeting place in the area for Rumney / Llanrumney teenagers and it's where I met my first wife. At the time, there was little else to do or find entertainment if you were just too young for the pub. Few on a Saturday evening went to see the film - the object was to walk around in the dark trying to find a female willing to agree to your sitting next to her, begin a conversation and take it where you could.

It would get pretty steamy on occasions and the then manageress - one Doris Stoodley - would be prowling around ready shine her torch on and if necessary eject, any couple seen to be taking things too far. Anyone else old enough to remember Doris? As I say, very happy days with no worries bar where and with who the next encounter would arise.

I imagine all the suburban Cardiff cinemas at the time would have been the same?

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Yes she was one scary woman:hehe:

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Originally Posted by Baloo

Heard the Prince Of Wales was good back in the day.

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I distinctly remember my Nan and Mum rushing me past the posters outside that cinema on our rare trips to the big City when I was around 7 years old! :hehe:

How about the Coronet? I think that it was in Woodville Road. I remember going with my cousins when I was about 7 to see a film called "The Sign of the Pagan" I was convinced for many years that it was called "The Side of the Pavement"!!!

what was the name of the cinema near the Gabalfa flyover ?

I saw Blazing Saddles in there with the wales rugby team, who were playing the next day, falling all over the place laughing at the cowboys sitting around the fire eating beans and farting

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Originally Posted by light up the darkness

what was the name of the cinema near the Gabalfa flyover ?

I saw Blazing Saddles in there with the wales rugby team, who were playing the next day, falling all over the place laughing at the cowboys sitting around the fire eating beans and farting

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The Plaza

When did the Monico shut? Last film I seen in there would've been mid-90s so I imagine it couldn't have been long after that.

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Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker

When did the Monico shut? Last film I seen in there would've been mid-90s so I imagine it couldn't have been long after that.

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2003 I think

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

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Originally Posted by ian gibson

The Plaza

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thank you

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Originally Posted by Steve R

I distinctly remember my Nan and Mum rushing me past the posters outside that cinema on our rare trips to the big City when I was around 7 years old! :hehe:

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A couple of boys at our school (Barry Boys') discovered you get in no questions asked at 14 years old. Pretty soon everyone in the whole school had been there.

I went there once. I can still remember the name of one of the films. "Vanessa". Bullet Baxter from Grange Hill had a non-porn role in it.

Where was the Ninian Cinema?

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Where was the Ninian Cinema?

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Just before the lights on Penarth Road/Corporation Road.

No Regent?

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/19687

The county was my local.

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Originally Posted by light up the darkness

what was the name of the cinema near the Gabalfa flyover ?

I saw Blazing Saddles in there with the wales rugby team, who were playing the next day, falling all over the place laughing at the cowboys sitting around the fire eating beans and farting

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Plaza

I left Cardiff when I was young, but came back about 4 times a year with the family to stay with relatives.

We went to the Monico every Saturday we were back - for years. I saw more films there than at my local cinema at home.

Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon... cheesy adverts... Zulu... them was the days!

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Originally Posted by jon1959

I left Cardiff when I was young, but came back about 4 times a year with the family to stay with relatives.

We went to the Monico every Saturday we were back - for years. I saw more films there than at my local cinema at home.

Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon... cheesy adverts... Zulu... them was the days!

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I hope you also took part in the stamping and shouting car-toons, car-toons

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

A couple of boys at our school (Barry Boys') discovered you get in no questions asked at 14 years old. Pretty soon everyone in the whole school had been there.

I went there once. I can still remember the name of one of the films. "Vanessa". Bullet Baxter from Grange Hill had a non-porn role in it.

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Barry Boys eh! If you could get past the manager of the Theatre Royal you knew you could get past anyone.

I used to go to the Saturday morning kids matinee in Splott Cinema at the top of Pearl Street when I was still in junior school. It was 6d (old pence) down the front of the cinema and 9d at the back.