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Originally Posted by suarezn
Hey, I told NALS he needs to revise his poll to include Cotui.
BTW did you know Cotui used to have two very nice movie theatres, but they both went under (Bad management I guess)
Hmmm...Pollo Victorina franchise...You just gave me an idea.
Here's a brand spanking new Facebook group I just started for us Cotuisanos or anyone interested in La Provincia Sanchez Ramirez..
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I just started it last night, so right now is just me, but I'm sending e-mails in the hope people start joining.
Hey maybe we can have a mini get-together sometimes (all of us who have posted voting for Cotui). |
The movie theatres didn't do well because the distribution company in DR found it too problematic to deliver and pick up the reels to that location most of the time. Only so many copies of a film are distributed by the film HQ distributor in the island, so they were not a priority to say the least.
Most of the time the new blockbusters were easier to catch in the next big city than dusting the "Zapatos de Charol" every Sunday waiting for them to come to Cotui... LOL!!!
As it happened they also got the reels with the films that could barely roll from reel to reel without having to split the bad cells and gluing them together every 30 minutes into the movie... LOL!!!!
"Oyeeeeeeee! Mi cuartos ladrones!!!" LOL!!!
My dad owned a reel to reel he got from a Miami's drive in theatre for cheap. His compadre was friends with the main distributor in the country and needless to say we watched all the blockbusters at home with friends and family, but somehow the pop corn never tastes quite the same as it does in the movie theaters. Perhaps we should have let it sit for some 24 or so hours before eating it... LOL!!!!
We called it "Dad's movie theater". On the downside you couldn't talk unless you really wanted a "cocotazo" but you never had to miss anything when you need it to go to the bathroom!
One thing I learned from having a film reel to reel at home is that every time you project a movie it becomes damaged from the heat of the lamp, turning the film kind of yellowish until it became amber like and that part was sure to burn up as it passed again on re-projection.
I became very adapt to splitting and gluing the film like new, so much that my father's compadre had the owner of the distributor firm, bring me film that was going to LA and needed to be fixed very good and effectively.
And I got paid!!!! Well... Not really... I got a special stub to attend any movie theater in the DR for free, but what good does it do when you still have to pay for the "girlfriend" too? I mean, if you're familiar on how well to do families treat their kids (as in you're into your late teens without a buck in your pocket unless you earned it yourself) you have to understand we got it rough most of the time we wanted to party or hang out...
Sh*t! I paid for my first bike from my uncle's Cessna to which I gave the car wash treatment with detailing to the max. It was a "Chopper" the best of the time and cool looking too, well that's until BMX made the rounds...
