Talking of the south entrance at the Co-Ed, I once had a girlfriend who refused to enter the Co-Ed for that very reason, so on one particular day we had to go all the way to Iowa City to see a movie that was playing right here in Fairfield! Why did I agree to do it? Alas, I was in love with her.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Yes and Washington, IA and Mt. Pleasant. Both about 30 minutes away. Not > so bad now that Rt 34 is a freeway, both going east and going west. So > travel to both Mt. Pleasant and Ottumwa are easier, mainly freeway. > Washington to the north requires using a 2 lane road at 55 mph and > potential to get stuck behind farm machinery, drivers who stay within speed > limit, etc.  > > Ottumwa has a 8 theater complex. Unfortunately also faces south. As did > the Co-Ed. Adding just to ruffle some feather here (-: > > > Iowa City/Coralville are an hour away. Cedar Rapids is 1 1/2 hours. Would > have to be a dang good movie to drive 3 hours for. Like Kumare! > > > > ________________________________ > From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartaxius@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:36 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, for those > interested in neuroplasticity > > >  > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > Feste is actually in semi-permanent hiding at an undisclosed location > > (although it's possible he could be tempted out by the prospect of meeting > > the divine Ann). > > > > Just to add to your picture of Fairfield, we just lost our movie theater > > here. Closed. Gone forever. We are now a small midwestern town without a > > movie theater. Perhaps some bright spark will organize some movie nights at > > the Sondheim, but I can't see anyone coming along to buy the old Co-Ed. > > Pity. > > Wow, I used to go to movies there. I went to Batman (the first film with > Michael Keaton) with a date and she walked out because of the 'negative' > vibes of the film she created in her mind. I have not been to Fairfield in a > long long time now. No movie theatre in the town I live in now either. A > dying breed. Too expensive to install digital projection equipment without a > big organisation or other financial backing, a theatre cannot make enough on > the pitiful portion of the entrance fee they get to keep and on the popcorn > etc, to buy this stuff, and are too small to provide the variety people now > expect. Used to be we got two movies, a serial, news, and a cartoon - that's > the late 1940s and the 1950s for me. > > Does that leave Ottumwa, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids? I never went to a movie > in Ottumwa. >
