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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?
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Heard the Prince Of Wales was good back in the day.
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The Bob Banker Spanker
What was the one called on the corner of the Newport Rd/Wentloog Rd jct? Was that County?
YES
http://photos.cinematreasures.org/pr...JPG?1388249273
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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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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?
Yes she was one scary woman:hehe:
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Baloo
Heard the Prince Of Wales was good back in the day.
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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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"!!!
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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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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
The Plaza
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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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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.
2003 I think
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ian gibson
The Plaza
:thumbup:
thank you
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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:
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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Where was the Ninian Cinema?
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NYCBlue
Where was the Ninian Cinema?
Just before the lights on Penarth Road/Corporation Road.
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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
Plaza
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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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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!
I hope you also took part in the stamping and shouting car-toons, car-toons
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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.
Barry Boys eh! If you could get past the manager of the Theatre Royal you knew you could get past anyone.
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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.
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islandblue
Barry Boys eh! If you could get past the manager of the Theatre Royal you knew you could get past anyone.
:hehe:
Mr Williams. :thumbup:
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Got my first sticky fingers in the Monico , still remember the whiff , pilchards and piss .
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Memories came flooding back of the Saturday morning kids matinee, cheers Genie. Seems a lifetime ago.
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Rocco Siffredi
Got my first sticky fingers in the Monico , still remember the whiff , pilchards and piss .
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JKB
Memories came flooding back of the Saturday morning kids matinee
Whoops!! :yikes:
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Cyncoed Slumdog
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.
Same here. :thumbup:
Don't miss next weeks thrilling instalment of (just fill in the blanks :hehe:
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BLUETIT
Yes for us Llanrumney boys it was heaven saw Clockwork Orange there ,went home over the wreck "singing in the rain " boot, down past the top shops and Countsabury Avenue and home, nostalgia just kicked in .
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Remember my old man taking me to the Plaza to watch the first ever Rocky film.
The Regent in Ely holds some great memories as well. Remember seeing the Italian Job, and 10,000 yrs BC in there. The place erupted when Raquel Welsh got her tits out!
Saturday mornings were the best though. Me and my younger sister used to go every week with our little bags of sweets, to watch the cartoons and Flash Gordon.
Now I've been to many football matches and music gigs, where it's been so crowded it's been a bit scary, but nothing has ever compared to leaving the Regent on a Saturday morning. As soon as the final curtain came down, there would be a stampede for the doors, and down the famous steps, where you would literally take your life in your own hands if you were to trip up. Lol!
On a side note. Me and my sister used to rush home to tell my dad all about the latest episode of Flash Gordon, but he always mysteriously knew what had happened before we could tell him.
Wasn't till yrs later, he told me that his mate used to be the projectioinist there and he used to call over for a quick cuppa with him every Saturday morning 😂
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The Gaiety. And what was the one on the junction of Wellfield Road and Albany Road.
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Vindec
The Gaiety. And what was the one on the junction of Wellfield Road and Albany Road.
Globe, I think.
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BLUETIT
Globe, I think.
Aye, The Globe, cheapest cinema in Cardiff. Me and my brother were watching a film in there when a rat ran across our feet. There used to be an old rowing boat and piles of rubbish under the screen, the place was a health hazard but I loved going there.
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I think the least known of the cinemas mentioned was the Rialto in Old Church Road Whitchurch. My favourite cinema of all was the Gaumont which later became the Top Rank. Has the Odeon in Queen St survived the ravages of redevelopment? As my visits to Cardiff don't go beyond the CCS I haven't a clue what does and doesn't exist in the City Centre.
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Vindec
I think the least known of the cinemas mentioned was the Rialto in Old Church Road Whitchurch. My favourite cinema of all was the Gaumont which later became the Top Rank. Has the Odeon in Queen St survived the ravages of redevelopment? As my visits to Cardiff don't go beyond the CCS I haven't a clue what does and doesn't exist in the City Centre.
My first visit to the cinema was the Rialto. It was a bit of a flea pit. If I recall correctly it was a single storey building so there wasn't an upstairs. It was off Old Church Rd so if you didn't know it was there you would miss it. I recall it had a small advertising hoarding on a low wall that was between the Royal Oak pub and Boots next door. When I was young I remember a poster for a film called "Doctor Blood's Coffin" on the hoarding which my mother point blank refused to take me to. Happy days
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Another compilation of closed Cardiff cinemas :
I bet nobody remember the Clifton?!
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/...?status=closed
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If you will excuse me broadening the thread to include Newport, this was my first cinema experience - my mum took me to see Bambi.
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/new...ears/#gallery0