Miguelita says "Victorio will have a fever if he can not visit downtown Toronto in one week!.." So very true..
Even when I was studying in Manila, I liked to visit Alemar's Book Sore, Goodwill, then the National Booktores. Then to Universal Theatre to see the movie photos, also Ideal theatre, then crossed Avenida to check the upcoming movies on the theatres on the opposite side: State, Ever..(Did I miss anything?) Then back at the corner of Recto and Avenida I checked Odeon, Galaxy, and along Recto are Hollywood, and further south is the Cinerama theatre, then Miramar ( near the University belt. If I am not mistaken, Miramar during its opening day was boasting to be the first theatre to have an escalator..oh wow!
If I remember right, EVER opened its doors with PRINCE VALIANT in Cinemascope, Technicolor. Audience went ga-ga over the 6 channel stereophonic sound. The smell and cool breeze at the lobby was sooo enticing! Inside was cool, dark and the theatre was shaped like a circle. The ticket cost only 1.20 in peso currency.. Loved this theatre before. When I entered this theatre on one of my Balikbayan trips, it was already showing Tagalog movies. It was using ventilators instead of air-cons, and the fragrant air was replaced by the urine smell from the toilets!---#
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Like you, Im also a lover of Books, a bibliophile! Movies too! I "discovered" a chain of stores offering 2nd hand bargain books,BOOKSALE, and for the editions you missed, even for the books that dont get another printing, you can find them there,with a little effort.
How cheap? I found my copy of Erich Segal's short but really a tear-jerker swear-to-god-all-my-friends-did-cry Love Story for 15 pesos! For readers not familiar or forgetful, Segal also wrote the Doctors and the Class of 59 or 50 I dont remember.
I found old editions of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy there, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion, yes Im also a Tolkien-atic!
Just expect these bargain books to tell signs of their previous owners, but I dont mind them, in faCT I love 'em! So, this one was given by Sheila to Roy, seems they hold a secret.....hmmmmm interesting!
Also expect most to have on their inside cover the stamped words: Orange County Public Library Property. FOR DISCARD
Oh well, when Barret met his father in the hospital, and his father tried to apologize.....Love means never having to say ......
Was made into film starring Ryan O'neal and Ali Mcgraw.
It is incredible how much you remember. I frequented the same places because my school was just down the road (Mendiola), but I barely remember the names of the theatres and the shops. This is why I check your entries everyday, even though I've never laid eyes on Asingan. You take me back to places I haven't thought about for the longest time.
Thank you.
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