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2 published memories in The Odeon from the 1950s.

Veronica Marshall · 1950s · The Odeon

Saturday matinees and first dates

A regular at the Saturday matinee — Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry — who once lost her teddy bear when a friend borrowed it during a screening. Years later she used the cine…

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Alan Hitchman · 1950s · The Odeon

A grand place to a young boy

Walked to the matinee from about ten years old, with his younger sister — cowboy films, cartoons, Flash Gordon serials. Remembers “a big foyer” and an organ that “popped up some…

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