Lime Street was home to many cinemas, none of which are still in operation.
"During the war years, our weekly entertainment was a penny to go to the Assembly Rooms. The popular fellows in those days were Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Pearl White etc." "The front page of the Liverpool Echo never had news on it, it was just cinema adverts. And when you went to the Plaza in Allerton, all marble, fountains, grand staircases, it was magnificent." "They used to have restaurants in the cinema. Do the matinee, have afternoon tea, then go to another cinema at night. You would get short films, the news reel and the feature film, the trailers would come before the news reel." "There were two news theatres, one opposite to where Owen Owens is." "In the Tatler, they did a trailer for 3D, but their glasses were real posh spectacles so they actually had two men who you would call bouncers on the door, taking the glasses back off everyone as we came out."
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