Memories of Matinees

I used to work at a movie theatre. I did usher duties, concession and I worked box office. Sometimes it was okay. The staff was alot of fun to work with. There were some real colorful characters. The joking around between shows would leave you in stitches. I remember to carefully move around helping customers trying to keep from falling on my ass because the floor was covered with butter topping, popcorn and ice. Oh yes the fun of filling the ice bins. They had these two buckets they kept under the sink. You had to take these downstairs to the basement where the icemaker was located, scoop out two bucketfuls and haul them back upstairs and then lift them up and fill the bins. this was done several times during operating hours. Another thing you had to go downstairs for was to change the pop cartons hooked up to fountains. You could get quite a workout working there. Then there was the fun of making the popcorn and catching the first few hot, fresh ones into a cup and eating them (as long as no customers were around) on break. There was all the free pop you wanted too. It's a shame they no longer have those neighborhood half-price theatres anymore. We started a petition when we heard the place was going to close. Everybody signed it. In the end it didn't matter. The place was turned into a video store.