Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Vote for your favorite landmark
You'd expect somebody called The Vintage Reader to be voting for the book locale, wouldn't you?
But no. The first movie I remember going to was at the Admiral Twin. Much later, my sister and I saw Sixteen Candles and Weird Science there as a double feature, the year I worked at a summer stock theater with the woman who played Marlene the Lumberjack (She was the lead in Irene and Little Me. I hemmed dancers' dresses and picked up actors at the airport. Our paths crossed, like, twice, but I thought it was cool that she was in a movie, so I went to see it).
But my favorite memory of the Admiral Twin is one night, the summer after my junior year in high school, when a bunch of us from the choir went out to see a movie--I can't even remember which one--and we all sat on the grass up in front and watched the movie, and giggled a lot I'm sure, and flirted with boys we knew and boys we didn't. It was just a perfect early-summer teenage night, like something out of a Beach Party movie (but without all the making out; we were Methodists, for crying out loud. You want sexual activity, you have to go hang out with the young Baptists. I've never seen such a group of sex maniacs as the Baptist kids I met through my 9th-grade boyfriend. I don't think all that gender separation is good for them. It seems to just make them more curious).
Anyway, you can vote once a day, so go vote for the Admiral Twin.
(Thanks to Braised Lambchop for the heads-up)
You'd expect somebody called The Vintage Reader to be voting for the book locale, wouldn't you?
But no. The first movie I remember going to was at the Admiral Twin. Much later, my sister and I saw Sixteen Candles and Weird Science there as a double feature, the year I worked at a summer stock theater with the woman who played Marlene the Lumberjack (She was the lead in Irene and Little Me. I hemmed dancers' dresses and picked up actors at the airport. Our paths crossed, like, twice, but I thought it was cool that she was in a movie, so I went to see it).
But my favorite memory of the Admiral Twin is one night, the summer after my junior year in high school, when a bunch of us from the choir went out to see a movie--I can't even remember which one--and we all sat on the grass up in front and watched the movie, and giggled a lot I'm sure, and flirted with boys we knew and boys we didn't. It was just a perfect early-summer teenage night, like something out of a Beach Party movie (but without all the making out; we were Methodists, for crying out loud. You want sexual activity, you have to go hang out with the young Baptists. I've never seen such a group of sex maniacs as the Baptist kids I met through my 9th-grade boyfriend. I don't think all that gender separation is good for them. It seems to just make them more curious).
Anyway, you can vote once a day, so go vote for the Admiral Twin.
(Thanks to Braised Lambchop for the heads-up)
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