Eric SamulskiOld school cinema
June 17th 2007 23:44
Deco cinema
In line with my new found enthusiasm for youthwork I took two youths to the Blue Mountains.
Why?
Because I’m trying to break this middle-class bubble of consumerism that children cuddle during incubation – I was thinking; shock treatment. Ethiopia was way out of my price bracket, so freezing cold was the next best thing. Dressed in their summer wardrobe and standing in the middle of fog-bound winter paradise, I told them this is how the other half live all the time. Cold and poverty is all about pain, Paris Hilton is not reality.
Anyway, we had dinner at the Avalon restaurant which is located in the old deco Katoomba cinema. You dine upstairs where the stalls used to be and there’s a bar in the old lounge. No films show but it’s wall to wall old school cinema atmosphere. When cinemas had that passport to unreality thing giving the cinematic experience its go-go.
Like I said before; the lights slowly dimmed and the journey began.
But how was dinner?
Just like in Hollywood…once the children stopped shivering.
Until next time and happy film-making.
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Comment by Tracy
Movies and Life
Have you been to the old cinema at Mount Victoria? It's fantastic and the atmosphere is great,
Tracy