Peter Stroud

[…] yes!Peter Stroud: So I had six months at the Prince of Wales first and then as soon as I was fifteen, very shortly afterwards, I went to Kensal Rise Odeon. Because you could walk in and out of jobs as you liked in those days! [Chuckles]Jim Shields: Yes that's right, yes!Peter Stroud: They were desp[…]

Jim Gorrie

[…]r a rise. I think I was getting 15 shillings a week then what as the projections as third and asked for rise and it wasn't forthcoming. So I wrote to Odeons I wrote to Granada's Odeon has offered me a job as third at the Odeon Southall it was only half a crown a week but pride and all that I took it[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]...there was The Warner, which was built mid thirties, and recently rebuilt. Umm...technically it’s the best cinema in London, umm, 9, 9 screens. The Odeon Leicester Square went up about thirty seven I think, didn’t it?CB: Oh, on the other side?I: On the side, yesCB: And...oh the other side of the s[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]ow. Mm. You know, and the monopoly. I remember all the monopoly stuff, because he was trying to exhibit his own films, and, you know, he bought Odeon and all that kind of thing. I remember a lot of that going on. But... I don’t... I mean, there were... They seemed to be mixing the old and the […]
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