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so, my morning was spent gazing at dreamy michael keaton batman pics on tumblr and my lunch hour was spent running errands which took me to the shopping center that i originally saw batman in. the movie theater is a clothing store now. it used to be a three or four screen theater. i can’t remember. it seems like there were three bigger screens and then a little baby screen off to the right. i remember that the biggest screen was huge and it was always a little unsettling when you’d go to the last showing of the night and they’d turn on all of the overhead lights when it was over. nobody wants to see the dirty floor and drapes of a crappy, small town movie theater. i haven’t been inside since it became a shop, but i kind of want to. i just don’t want to deal with the “can i help you” looks as i go all weirdo walking around looking at walls and fixtures instead of actual merchandise. not only did i see batman there, but i also saw ghostbusters and beetlejuice. and predator! and ghostbusters 2! and die hard 2 and terminator 2. lots of sequels were seen there. oh! and bill and ted! i went to see that one with my dad. and point break! and arachnophobia. hearing my grandmother’s creative pronunciation of that one was more entertaining than the movie itself. and anybody who never heard her try to pronounce schwarzenegger really missed out. i realized pretty recently, on a trip to pick something up in macon, that almost every single movie theater from my youth is now gone. the septum (which is what this was), parkwood, southlake (whatever the three different theaters up there were called), regal, riverside, westgate, the one at macon mall, that weird theater in forsyth we never went to but always called the line because the person leaving the outgoing message was unintentionally hilarious, the art house theater in buckhead that we went to see clerks in a million times, the cheapo theater just down the street from that that we went to see clerks in a million more times when it got booted from the first run theaters and probably a half dozen more. aren’t they trying to close the plaza again? so, that might be gone soon, which would mean that all *three* of the theaters that i went to see clerks in are now dead. we went to see clerks a *lot*. anyway, this is a picture of where the theater that i saw an assload of awesome movies in used to be. that fish bowl place used to be the ice cream/arcade. scoops, i think. and right next to that, where a cheapo beauty supply shop lives now, used to be turtles record store. i bought tickets to see the monkees at six flags there. good times.

so, my morning was spent gazing at dreamy michael keaton batman pics on tumblr and my lunch hour was spent running errands which took me to the shopping center that i originally saw batman in. the movie theater is a clothing store now. it used to be a three or four screen theater. i can’t remember. it seems like there were three bigger screens and then a little baby screen off to the right. i remember that the biggest screen was huge and it was always a little unsettling when you’d go to the last showing of the night and they’d turn on all of the overhead lights when it was over. nobody wants to see the dirty floor and drapes of a crappy, small town movie theater. i haven’t been inside since it became a shop, but i kind of want to. i just don’t want to deal with the “can i help you” looks as i go all weirdo walking around looking at walls and fixtures instead of actual merchandise.

not only did i see batman there, but i also saw ghostbusters and beetlejuice. and predator! and ghostbusters 2! and die hard 2 and terminator 2. lots of sequels were seen there. oh! and bill and ted! i went to see that one with my dad. and point break! and arachnophobia. hearing my grandmother’s creative pronunciation of that one was more entertaining than the movie itself. and anybody who never heard her try to pronounce schwarzenegger really missed out.

i realized pretty recently, on a trip to pick something up in macon, that almost every single movie theater from my youth is now gone. the septum (which is what this was), parkwood, southlake (whatever the three different theaters up there were called), regal, riverside, westgate, the one at macon mall, that weird theater in forsyth we never went to but always called the line because the person leaving the outgoing message was unintentionally hilarious, the art house theater in buckhead that we went to see clerks in a million times, the cheapo theater just down the street from that that we went to see clerks in a million more times when it got booted from the first run theaters and probably a half dozen more. aren’t they trying to close the plaza again? so, that might be gone soon, which would mean that all *three* of the theaters that i went to see clerks in are now dead. we went to see clerks a *lot*.

anyway, this is a picture of where the theater that i saw an assload of awesome movies in used to be. that fish bowl place used to be the ice cream/arcade. scoops, i think. and right next to that, where a cheapo beauty supply shop lives now, used to be turtles record store. i bought tickets to see the monkees at six flags there. good times.

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