Rialto Theatre
Raleigh, NC 27608
Phone: (919) 856-0111
11/09/2007 Posted by toppro
While reading an article in the new NC Signature magazine about Five Points, I noticed the Rialto Theatre, which looks so familiar - in the late 1950's I live in Five Points, on Sunset Dr and went to many movies at the then Colony Theatre (now apparently the Rialto) - seeing movies like Old Yeller and other Disney classics there for .15 (and a dime for popcorn and a drink!) In the early 1960's I got a job as a marquee boy, $1 a night (movies back then changed every few days, sometimes 4-5 times a week) - and used to hang out in the projection booth next to the Marquee letter room - I learned how to operate the projectors and one day the projectionist got fired - and I got the job - bizarre turn of events and at age 13 I was THE projecitonist at the Colony. Eventually moved back to Chapel Hill and became the projectionist at the Varsity and the Carolina theatres. But so weird, Five Points looks so like it did when I was a kid - I googled the map and satellite view and it was like deja vue. Amazing that my memory can recall so much but the satellite views brough it all home.
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