Say Cheese... Now Smile!

Melissa and I were talking today about how we missed the old Canyon Theater... well before it got all getto.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about... the Canyon Theater would be in that bare complex that next to Beth, Mike, and Lorraine's apartment.

And for those who STILL don't know what I'm talking about... its was old school movie theater in San Dimas that went out of business soon after the opened a big bad EDWARDS 12 down the street.

Thing about the Canyon Theater was that it was one theater... and they usually had double features. So after you watched QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER... you can stick around and watch THE MIGHTY DUCKS right after... and then even watch the first movie over again.

In the Philippines, they don't have movie times... they just show the movie over and over again... and so if you enter the theater and are late.. you can stay in and wait till they show it again and catch up on what you missed. So growing up, thats how my mom had us watch our movies... going inside late.. and spending the entire day in that red theater just vegging in front of the movie screen.

It used to be a really nice place.. and not all barren and dumpy as it is now. I remember when they showed BATMAN, it was PACKED and the parking lot would be full.

On wednesdays at noon.. it would be the Senior flick... so my Nanang would take myself, Carlene, Jr, Jen and Angel and we would just chill there with all the senior citizens watching old movies and listening to the same "Laurence of Arabia" soundtrack over and over again.

But then they opened the Edwards and then it got sad. They started printing 99 cent coupons in the church bulletin... and then it became "buy one get one free"... and then it just went broke cause no one was going anymore. Compared to the new theater with 12 screens and the high tech sound equipment.. it just wasn't enough to compete.

When Melissa and I were taking summerschool over at San Dimas high... we had this rhyming math teather who actually took up the 99 cent buy one get one free deal and took his kids to watch the POWER RANGER movie over there. *I'll talk more about the summer school experience later... *

I don't know where I'm going with this... we had this total flashback today as we passed it. But thinking about it brought out the warm fuzzies...