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It still blows my mind that I used to make plans with friends to go see a movie a week in advance and everyone would just show up.
by gdubs 8y ago
It still blows my mind that I used to make plans with friends to go see a movie a week in advance and everyone would just show up.
- agumonkey 8y agoI struggle to remember precisely how we did .. I know we did.. I know it involved theater programs and phoning .. but the concrete memory is gone as if it was fantasy
- mirimir 8y agoThere were these things called newspapers. They ran theater ads, at least a week in advance.
- asark 8y agoRemember calling the theater's recorded schedule line? Then if someone bugged you at the wrong moment you'd miss the times for the one you needed and have to listen to the whole damn thing again?
- mirimir 8y agoYes, I do indeed. That was an intermediate technology level. And in some ways, not so much worse than the Internet.
- adrianmonk 8y agoAnd/or, when you saw a movie, while you were at the theater, you'd just try to memorize the show times of any films you might be interested in seeing next weekend. Or you'd rely on what others told you about when/where they saw a movie. And if all that failed (or you didn't even try), sometimes you'd just show up at the movie theater around 7pm without having done any research at all and see whatever looked good based on movie posters, titles, and actors you recognized.
- agumonkey 8y agoin my area we used to buy an aggregate journal of all theater programs, crazy to think how early on things were planned
- quickthrower2 8y agoThere were these social networks called high school.