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ODEON PICTURE HOUSE

I remember the Odeon on Kingstanding Circle. We used to wait for my dad to come home with his wages and then mum would take my sister and myself to the Odeon. We used to queue for ages to get in the shillings! and always had to stand for the National Anthem at the end of the film. We could choose on the night whether to have an ice cream at the cinema or buy threepence worth of chips when we came out at the chip shop which was opposite the Odeon.

Later on we used to do all our courting in the back row, and I had the first kiss off my husband in the Odeon 48 years ago!

Written by Marlene Sale (nee Hodge). To send Marlene Sale (nee Hodge) a private message, click here.

A memory of Kingstanding in West Midlands shared on Saturday, 2nd May 2009.

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