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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
I expect to pay $11.50 for my popcorn combo at the movies, I expect to pay $7 for a beer at the baseball game. Growing up, we ALWAYS got snacks at the movies, the ball game, etc., despite the cost
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For my growing-up perspective, you could buy a small popcorn or soda for 25 cents each at State theatre, Whiteside, and Varsity. They still showed cartoons, too.
The 9th st cinema miniplex was the beginning of our high priced goodies. Sub 50-cent snacks at one end of town, and $2 at the other. Cheap ended completely when the small family theatre ownership wound down and shuttered Varsity, sold Whiteside to the 9th st cinema company, and State made way for Citizens' expanded parking lot. Granted, these things happened over time but the price differences existed for years.
If I were rich I'd renovate and re-open Whiteside for old, foreign, and customer-voted movies.
Anyway, bot, the 400% jump in snack prices between my home theatres and the new places permanently instilled a resistance to buying the inflated junk. While I was in Silicon Valley I'd usually go to 2nd-run theatres.
-That bitter old guy in Corvallis