Remember the double features at movie theaters? Going in at 2pm, leaving at 6pm. A complete afternoon at the movies for $2.00. I recall so may afternoons spent there.
At the Cortes, at the Riviera, the Grand, the Ambassador, the Rex. The unpredictability of the movies shown, an adventure movie with a drama. A comedy with a horror film. For some reason, the first movie shown was not the best one. You sat through it to get to the really good one. But then again, those were the days of "tandas corridas", when you could go in at any time and watch movies "mitad y mitad".
The double feature I always remember was one of "Yellow Submarine" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". A car that could fly, the Beatles...what more can a little kid hope for? Some time ago I bought both movies on DVD and watched them back to back. It was not the same as watching them so many years ago, but for a moment there, you know, maybe it was.
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