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Update: I finally revisited Largs in 2014. You can read about my return to my three-time holiday haunt here.
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I had completely forgotten about the longship outside the cinema even though I've been in Largs a few times in recent years. In 2004, I stayed in the Cathedral of the Isles while my pal Jason celebrated his birthday in Millport. All the guest rooms are named after Christian virtues; I didn't get "sobriety".
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall a silvery-grey rocket outside the amusement arcade in Largs. Can you supply any details about that?
Also interesting that back then you could go to a cinema that showed films that had been released years before...somewhere along the line that kind of fell away
ReplyDeleteDougie, now that you mention it, I have a vague recollection, but apart from a couple of comments about it on various sites, I haven't been able to track down a photo yet. I'll keep working on it.
ReplyDeleteB Smith, that was obviously before they'd been sold to television, and the advent of the video age. Until Dr No appeared on TV for the very first time in the mid-'70s, Bond movies (as an example) were still regularly screened in cinemas.
In fact, when the Bond movie catalogue was sold to TV, newspapers reported that cinemas weren't too happy about it because they still got big audiences whenever they showed one.