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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]As far as i'm aware, the Ritz, commonly known to all and sundry as 'The Flea Pit', was one of the first cinema's to show the newly controversial 'X-rated' films in the general area in the early 1950s. On the first occasion, being practically dragged their by my slobbering mates and naturally - quite against my will, very, very muchly of course and under-age for such offerings, we endured one of those so-called X-rated epics in astonished silence. Too say we were 'had'........well, after the first few minutes, i thought i was back at the Heanor Cosy, watching something akin to the one day to be 'Categator Person Types', or similar rubbish. For one fleeting - VERY fleeting moment, Langley Baths didn't seem too bad after all. The Ritz opened its doors, in spite of German attempts to stop it (the War), in 1916. It suffered a rebuild in the 1930s, finally sighing to the final closing of its doors in 1957, the X-rated sign, slithering off its cellar wall unseen, in tatters. Azzabuv.[/quote]
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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 3/28/2005 3:07:00 PM by Azzabuv

The Ritz Cinema
replied on: 3/28/2005 3:02:43 PM

As far as i'm aware, the Ritz, commonly known to all and sundry as 'The Flea Pit', was one of the first cinema's to show the newly controversial 'X-rated' films in the general area in the early 1950s.
On the first occasion, being practically dragged their by my slobbering mates and naturally - quite against my will, very, very muchly of course and under-age for such offerings, we endured one of those so-called X-rated epics in astonished silence. Too say we were 'had'........well, after the first few minutes, i thought i was back at the Heanor Cosy, watching something akin to the one day to be 'Categator Person Types', or similar rubbish. For one fleeting - VERY fleeting moment, Langley Baths didn't seem too bad after all.

The Ritz opened its doors, in spite of German attempts to stop it (the War), in 1916. It suffered a rebuild in the 1930s, finally sighing to the final closing of its doors in 1957, the X-rated sign, slithering off its cellar wall unseen, in tatters.
Azzabuv.

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