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Fox Theater, Home of the Spokane Symphony
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Exterior	Main Floor	2nd Floor
Familiar?	Lighting	Fancy!

Ed, it seems to me that the heyday for movie watching in theaters, for me, was living in Mt Shasta, CA up to age 10. Saturday matinees were only a dime. Every Saturday it seemed every kid went to the matinee. Same format every Saturday: general noise and mayhem until the screen lit up, serial feature of 15 minute segment of either some hokey cowboy feature or Flash Gordon and the evil Emperor Ming. Then a featured attraction which seemed to always be either Tarzan (with the "real" Tarzan, Johnny Weismuller) or Hopalong Cassidy. I was always disappointed if it was Roy Rogers. He seemed so corny and uncowboyish. I found it hard to believe in singing cowboys, so the same about Gene Autrey.

Yes, the intermissions were nice to have to participate in the ritual of getting some more snacks. I especially liked the enticing jingle of the one they would show at the Liberty. Remember this:

The singers were dancing boxes of popcorn, paper container soft drinks and a candy bar. My mom enjoyed it so much she would sing it at home when she went to the kitchen for a snack.

In the Bing Crosby bio I recently read, Bing's did several performances in his early years, pre-Hollywood fame, at the Fox. He remained loyal to Spokane, so it's well that he might have snuck back in for old time's sake.

I hardly remember the Granada. Orpheum seemed to get too staid. Don't remember any movies there other than "War of the Worlds," "From Here to Eternity," and "High Noon." Seemed like most of my movie viewing was at the Post, Fox, State and Liberty. In later years, the Fox was the best for movies.