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Sal1950

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I want my $11.25 back!
Second time this month the fruitcakes in Hollywood have
fleeced money out of my pockets with misrepresentation.
Not quite the totally boring, POS that Arrival
was, but purt ner close partners.
First half is a complete snoozer and the second half your wife
might enjoy as a Made for TV movie on the Hallmark Channel
To make things worse Jennifer Lawrence has a fat butt and very
saggy boobs. :(

Here's hoping Milla Jovovich does it for me one last time in next
months, Resident Evil - The Final Chapter ;)
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$11.25 now, wow.
Senior and Child ticket price is $9.75 + 1.25 booking fee for buying the ticket online and being able to pick my seat before hand.
Standard adult ticket would be $11.25 + 1.25 booking.
IMAX screen is $3.50 - 5.00 more. :)
 

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blah blah $ blah $$ blah $$$

Wow.

I pick a random theater, first hit on Google for "Theater popcorn Prices"


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New London Wisconsin. That's not even on the main road.

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I spent half a summer in Iola (top left) replacing their telephone Central Office. Scandinavia was a remote off that machine. Nice area, farms, trees, water, tall firs in Scandinavia. I liked those little jobs especially after doing one in a Big City.

Here's the hut in Scandinavia - TDS - Telephone and Data Systems. And the local Central Office in Iola.

I know you like Motels, so here's where I stayed way back in about 1988 or so.

The diner was a pretty hopping place sometimes... Maybe spillover from the Corner Bar.

Looks pretty quiet, right?

I arrived a couple of days before "Car Show", and the Motel Guy said I could stay for two days then there were no rooms available Friday-Sunday. I said OK.

He then said "You don't understand, do you? It's Car Show! There are no rooms here, and probably none for 100 miles. But if you have a tent, you can set it up out back and you can use our bathroom and shower in the work shed."

I drove to Waupaca, got me a little tent, and it worked out just fine.

120,000 visitors expected this year at "Car Show".

You going?

3 day pass only $18.
 

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Prices have really gone up. We paid $12/person for advance reservation. The kicker was two medium cokes each one costing $5.75 plus tax!!! $35 for two people to see a movie.

On the up side these are luxury theaters with superb, reclining seating. So I don't mind it relative to paying $6 in old days and having those tiny uncomfortable seats where your knees banged into the seat in front of you.

And yeah I think popcorn prices started at $9 for a small cup and went up from there.
 

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Wow.
 
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Screw all that. Last night I first stopped at the Target just a couple doors down in the same mall.
Box of Whoppers $1.00
Box of Bit O Honey candy pieces $1.00
2 bags of Honey roast peanuts $.50 x2 = $1.00
Box of generic FigNewton cookies $1.35
Brought 2 bottles of Pepsi from home apprx, $.75
Still have over half on the kitchen counter for snacking later.
Just tossed my sweater over the bag and walked in.
No one ever even seems to care, never saw a sign forbidding outside goodies.

One couple in front of me to the left was enjoying cocktails and splitting a BBQ Rib dinner.
Another on the right had a pizza and cocktails.
Can't imagine what that "take you to the show" night cost those two guys. :eek:
Times have sure changed. Remember when a double feature plus cartoons, news reels, etc could occupy a whole day or night on pocket change?
 

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Drive-In $1 carloads.

Watched Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in a Beetle in a thunderstorm with lightning coming out of Taylor's head during the good fight scenes.

 
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