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1950s · The Odeon

Saturday matinees and first dates

told by Veronica Marshall · Kingstanding resident

The OdeonGrowing Up

“Once the Odeon” — the frontage at Kingstanding Circle. Photograph: Martin Richard Phelan, 2014 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
“Once the Odeon” — the frontage at Kingstanding Circle. Photograph: Martin Richard Phelan, 2014 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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 cinema as a courting spot, waiting outside on chilly evenings.

Gathered by the Voices of Kingstanding project and the Birmingham History Forum, and shared with thanks.

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