It was a small Kansas City movie theater chain called Durwood Theaters. Enter: Stan Durwood.īack in the 60s, Stan Durwood had taken over the family business. People were staying home with their televisions again and theater owners knew the whole experience needed an upgrade. Auditoriums were cramped, floors were sticky, and attendance was dropping. Meanwhile, theaters divided their one big auditorium into two, three, or four auditoriums to make room for more screens.Īs the seventies rolled into the eighties, movie-going had become a significantly less swanky experience. Studios realized there was enough demand to release movies in the suburbs and the city simultaneously. But in the early 1970s, this began to change.
It lived at one particular location, and you had to go there. Seeing a film was kind of like seeing a painting or a Broadway show.
To see a movie at the time was to have an usher in a tuxedo hand you a printed program before guiding you to your seat.īack then, studios and theaters had a business arrangement: if a theater had a certain movie, nobody else in the area could play it. The 1960s was the era of huge studio epics, and theaters got bigger and more luxurious as well. As television kept viewers at home, movies competed by becoming more spectacular.
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