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Originally Posted by cyrnel
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 |
I pay almost as much at the Avalon or Darkside when I see a movie there...though I usually get the mega popcorn that comes with a refill ($5), a hot dog ($2.75, I think, best hot dog in town), and a pint of Oregon Trail Wit (at the Avalon, $4).
I didn't live in Corvallis in the days of the State Theater, though my SO did, and he remembers it fondly. I do, however, remember Act III Cinemas in the Portland area, and while their prices were high compared to those small one-screen theaters, they're nothing compared to what their prices became once Regal bought out Act III. A matinee in Hillsboro went from $3.25 to $4.50.
I guess as prices have gone up across the board I have just become accustomed to paying the gradual increases, even when it comes to my popcorn combo.