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[…]n below for the victualling, and the food was pretty bloody grim. So er...Anyway, we decided upstairs, and there was John Rudkin, um NBC, CBS, and er ABC, myself, in a flat. We were all sharing this lovely, lovely er flat. It was all satin-lined. The bed was all satin-lined, like this...I've got pic[…]

[…]eally quite interesting, we of course, as independent salesmen had nothing to do with the Odeon cinemas on our territory, or indeed what was then the ABC chain. They were the only chains existing in those days. There was a company called Essoldo and anybody that had more than about 20 cinemas was co[…]

[…]that was a tremendous success and we made a lot of money. And ITC was at that time a separate entity. ATV, as we were then known - originally we were ABC, became known as ATV - felt that it might be a conflict of interests and we did a deal and they took it over. And then in 1962 Val was no longer m[…]

[…]nt. Yes. Then later on I went to see Robert Clark and did a deal with ABC and. Yes. So what was the next one out on on the list after that a[…]

[…]cause at that time, because we 1 d parted in the war, he1 d been shipped somewhere else. And so I arranged to meet him and we met at Stratford in the ABC Tea Rooms, remember the ABC Tea Rooms Norman Swallow: They 1 re not there now Johnny Speight: No. The Aerated Bread Company wasn't it. Tea rooms, […]

[…]the 50’s?EB: Yes. The O’Connor brothers, they had several cinemas in South London, and when they saw risk coming in they decided to sell out. I think ABC bought 1 or 2 of them, The Regal, Kennington, was one of them. I played there several times for them, did odd weeks. They went to South Africa, th[…]