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On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 09:28 AM, Bhairitu wrote:

I went to all those with the Seven Gables being within walking distance of an apartment I had in the University District.? Randy Finley and his sister Pat (who was TV actress) bought a lot of the old theaters and renovated them specializing in art house and foreign films.? When I was briefly living in the Seattle area again in 1990 I saw a few films at a multiplex theater they had by renovating what was a car dealership building I think. They had a window on the projection room which had the platter projectors which kept the films on a loop.

I saw my first Bollywood film at the University Theater in the U District. It was just a couple blocks up the street from my apartment. I was out for a stroll and came upon a young Indian guy putting up posters for the movie.? He was renting out the theater for weekend afternoon Bollywood movie.? He invited me to come to the show so I did.? I was the only "white guy" in the theater.? It was interesting because CBS 60 Minutes had recently done a segment on the Bollywood film industry that made more movies yearly than Hollywood.

The University Theater:

Very cool.? Did you ever see films at the Grand Illusion?? It has retained its independence and it looks like it will survive the pandemic (note the lack of quotes).??

I saw a number of films there.? Also one day when I was going down to U District there was a crowd gathered around the closed elementary school.? Turned out that John Frankenheimer was shooting a film there starring Richard Harris.? The scene was about him walking away from the school after a criminal syndicate had threaten to blow up the classroom where his girlfriend taught.? They had set charges to go off and had three cameras to make sure they got the shot.? It took three tries for the explosive to go off.? I have the movie "99 and 44/100 % Dead!" on DVD which shows off a lot of Seattle of that time in the 1970s.