Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

ABC Cinema, Green Lanes, Ducketts Common 1962

View Full Size

Comment by john nichols on January 19, 2024 at 12:42: remeber it well lived in effingham road Sat morn pictures for a tanner in the fities Then Sunday 4pm was a regular haunt as teenagers queued round the block each group having their own particular set of seats then onto the Rainbow coffe bar afterwards or up to muswell hill and the El toro

Comment by Geraldine on January 19, 2024 at 12:51: Talent competitions Saturday afternoons. My sister won one of those. We had a cat named Ritzy in honour of the cinema.

Comment by Richard Woods on January 19, 2024 at 12:55: I recall a coffee bar in Westbury Road in the late 50s where we used to drink coffee in glass cups. It had a fairly exotic name I think. Anyone?

Comment by Richard Woods on January 19, 2024 at 13:01: Kardomah? Was that it?

Comment by Lydia Walter on January 23, 2024 at 17:02: We are the girls and boys well known as the minors of the ABC,
And every Saturday all line up to see the films we like and
Shout aloud with glee
We like to laugh and have a sing song just a happy crowd are we
We're all pals together the minors of the ABC.

Song can be found on YouTube!

Comment by Richard Woods on January 24, 2024 at 11:37: Oh God! I remember it!

Comment by Lydia Walter on January 24, 2024 at 17:12: 6 pence to get in; 6 pence for a FAB ice lolly; 6 pence for a small, cardboard, red box of Paynes Poppets: what a cheap Saturday morning's entertainment.
The Manager stood on the stage pointing to the words of the song and conducted us as we all joined in with the singing.
Most, if not all, films were black and white (think the cartoons were in colour) Tarzan, Old Mother Riley, Bugs Bunny, often a silent movie and generally a serial. Happy, well behaved, respectful children enjoying themselves - I must be getting old!

Comment by Richard Woods on January 25, 2024 at 13:32: Flash Gordon! But in my day 6d would have been a lot for an ice lolly; it was I think 6d to get in. And that 'box" of Poppets was more likely a small one!

Comment by Geraldine on January 25, 2024 at 18:01: I kicked off at the Coliseum. Entrance wasn't as much as 6d. 6d was a lot of money. We loved Flash Gordon. Buster Crabbe was Flash, The soundtrack music was Tsaikovsky's Overture to Romeo and Juliet. I can still hum it.

Comment by Lydia Walter on January 25, 2024 at 18:10: Yes, Richard, 6d not 6 pence - how did I make that mistake!!

Advertising