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My favorite memory of the Rosemead 4 Theatres--a sort of miniplex we had out here in the 70's, at the far end of a shopping center--was the sticky floor from all the spilled soda. Your shoes would make a crackly sound walking there...there was carpeting in the aisles but in the seating areas the floor was hard and covered with this glue-like dried soda. I never personally threw anything--we did not behave barbarically, as the Canadians are known to do--but there was one screen that had a hole in it and they never bothered to fix the hole. Every time I noticed the hole I would think, "Oh, the bastard that did that!"
The Rosemead 4 is long gone now. I think the last movie I saw there was Robocop, and before that I saw a lot of great movies, Disney flicks, The Boogens, The Hearse, Fade to Black, A Christmas Story and others. There was a Thrifty drugstore in that shopping center, and you could get a scoop of ice cream in a cone for 15 cents at one point, there was also an ARCADE right next to the theatre, and an unusually good Saturday would have the folks dropping you and your buddies off for most of the day, to see how far you could stretch the $5 allowance money. Good times!
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