Going to the movies in 1978

Sorry all, no Star Wars or Close Encounters of the Third Kind!
...
But a fun look inside a local movie theater in NYC in April of 1978.
The hot ticket here and clearly the most popular would be, "The Goodbye Girl".
One of my personal favorite Richard Dreyfuss movies.
Among some of the lesser-known titles playing:
The Turning Point
Julia
Casey's Shadow
The video last around 7 minutes.
#richarddreyfuss

[@ethanol1586]

I was born way too late to ever experience the 70s or 80s, but these videos make me feel so warm and cozy. It's hard to explain, but it just makes me so happy

[@vampirerobot]

That's so awesome to read.

[@Mr_Negrodamus]

​@@vampirerobotsure is! :)

[@Mr_Negrodamus]

A normal time in History vs the crazy immoral society of today.

[@SJHFoto]

@@Mr_Negrodamus I look forward to the Bible's promise that soon, this wicked system of things will end. Then the Earth will be the paradise it was intended to be

[@thischannelisdeleted]

@@SJHFoto Good luck

[@jayalexander3356]

I miss the 70s and 80s so badly. I'd give anything to go back.

[@redadamearth]

Yeah, we lost something with the internet and cell phones. We had to socialize more if we wanted to do anything then, which caused people to be much kinder to each other.

[@John-ct9zs]

I was born in 1975, no way in hell would I want to go back to the 70s, 80s or 90s. Or even the first half of the 2000s. Screw the clunky technology of those years. I love all our modern tech we have today. I'm a much better adult today than I was as a kid in the 80s and 90s.

[@theplasmatron3306]

Born in 2000. I would like to time travel to 1978. 2024 sucks man.

[@TheSaturnV]

@@John-ct9zs Everyone had a different experience I guess. I'd go back in a heartbeat.

[@John-ct9zs]

@@TheSaturnV I LOVED the pop culture from the late 70s, 80s, 90s, into the early 2000s. While it sounds cool in theory to be in a perpetual loop from 1977 to 2002/2003, we'd all find out real quick, even being in a time as recent as 2003 how much we miss modern mobile phones and online shopping such as Amazon, and other services. Definitely would be a problem in any year in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I just wouldn't want to go back to those days.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

I still remember my mother's disgust at the box office when she discovered the price of a ticket for a child rose from 95 cents to one dollar. "A buck for a kid to see a show?" she hissed for all to hear.😄

[@Qboro66]

Was she the one who punched the glass where the tape was?😂

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

So a Karen then?

[@steveoranges1960]

yes but of course with inflation $1 was equivalent to about $55 in today's money

[@IngoPagels]

@@Qboro66 lol!! ^^

[@ajay1888]

​​​@@steveoranges1960wrong. 1 dollar in 1978 is the equivalent of 4.63 today so 1.50 during this time of the recorded video would be the equivalent to around 6 dollars of today's money

[@xevvy6857]

Watching this and wishing I could teleport back in time to that line, buy a ticket and enjoy a movie in that 1978 theater🥺

[@TravellingxTales]

OMG !!! I PLEASE I WISH

[@jenx5870]

I was 6 yrs old in 1978, and my grandmother used to take me to the movies all the time. She would sneak in snacks in her purse so she wouldn't have to pay. Then, she would take me out to eat after. I still regularly listen to that David Gates song on my IPOD, although I was far too young to see the movie, that song was on the radio constantly when I was young.

[@user-kw5nl3ct3v]

If I could go back, I wouldn't try to change anything, but I would appreciate everything.

[@user-cr8dq7sc6h]

Absolutely. We all need to go back to the late 1970s and live the next decades after that when life was better.

[@DyenamicFilms]

I feel lucky to have grown up in the coolest of decades. The 70's and 80's. What a streak of movies I saw in the theater in the 70's: Snoopy, Come Home (first movie I remember seeing in the theater) Tom Sawyer, The Musical Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Earthquake The Towering Inferno The Golden Voyage of Sinbad Battle for the Planet of the Apes Jaws Rocky King Kong '76 Star Wars Close Encounters of the Third Kind A Bridge Too Far The Spy Who Loved Me Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger Superman The Movie Jaws 2 Magic (first rated R movie I saw) Moonraker Amityville Horror (filmed in my hometown where I watched some of the filming) Apocalypse Now

[@user-kw5nl3ct3v]

Thank you for your list. It sums up a better time as far as sitting at home with your loved ones. It was a better time.

[@jamieholmes4675]

The posters to those Sinbad movies were amazing.

[@andreas6029]

I am from 64, the late 70s and 80s were the golden era for movies, huge screens, snacks and above all great atmosphere

[@JGD185]

$4 for an adult ticket.....today it's like $15-20

[@jameswillett7186]

I just used the CPI inflation calculator -$18.99 in todays money.

[@KevinQ1989]

Inflation rate in 1978 was 8% which was high. If the inflation rate was low, ticket prices would've been around $2

[@MaxZomboni]

That was with the hyperinflation of the 1970s. At the beginning of the 70s, the ticket prices were under $2.

[@locdog187]

$4 seems like a lot for that era

[@Mary_O]

I remember paying $4.75 for a show in Atlanta in 1990, and I thought that was outrageous because it was under $4.00 in Omaha. Big city, big prices.

[@anamericanprayer1967]

Look how well dressed everyone is 😊 it was a big deal going to the Movies.

[@dawnvalentine74]

Yeah. I was a kid, then. People didn't go out unless they were dressed decently. No pajamas.

[@John-ct9zs]

You think all those leisure suits are well dressed? I'd say a 70s leisure suit vs a 2020s pajama is a draw. Not counting all the people that wore suits and ties to the grocery store in the 1950s or the lunatics that wore a top hat and suit/tie and dresses to the beach in 1910 or 1925.....I think people publicly dressed the best in my lifetime from I dunno, the late 80s to the mid 2000s or so. Sometime after 2010 is when I noticed the pajama craze and not giving a rats ass became in vogue. The pandemic made it worse. Then again, since I was born in 1975, it's natural for me to forever be mortified by the 70s, the same way people born in the 80s and 90s tend to be mortified by those decades, but to me they were cool styles since I grew up in them.

[@Vinylgeekdom1980]

@@John-ct9zs I always laugh now when I see people wearing bedroom slippers with no socks at the grocery stores. Sometimes even in cold/winter weather. My how things have changed🤣

[@joegreen268]

Yeah or their bathrobe

[@Johndoe345-k2d]

All of those men needed a GD haircut.

[@EmbeeSpeaks]

I grew up in a small town and my widowed mother would take me to matinees. I was 10 in 1978 and the adult matinee prices were about $2.00 in my town. 😂 Memories. ❤

[@vampirerobot]

Great memories I'm sure

[@Engelbird]

I was also 10 in 1978. Grew up in Chicago and my dad would take me to movies. Cheers.

[@deliriousnomad]

notice all paying cash, thats how we did back in those days

[@tommyscanlon8842]

it's quicker too

[@bobrew461]

before credit got to easy

[@Jennifer-xs2sh]

Cash is king

[@ronniewest838]

The beautiful 70’s..!

[@joemachol.3968]

I was 9 in 1978. I remember my parents took me to see my first Rated R movie that year, The Omen 2. Scared the hell out of me.

[@_Majoras]

was born in '78. some of those early 80s days still felt very 70s 🤣

[@dannydevito7685]

I was born in ‘98. Some of the early 00s still felt very 90s

[@4jup4ter4]

Born in 81, early 90's felt like the 80's

[@candy2325]

It’s the trickle down effect. I was born in 1989 and the early 2000’s still looked 90’s ..

[@93TiuVl-157HHioLxSq]

You are all banned from this channel for being needy and posers. Don't ever come back.

[@Yo_DynamoJoe]

There's a clear difference behind the eyes in footage from this era when compared to human conversation today. People made direct eye contact in an easy, natural way, the kind an entire lifetime of repetition produces. They spoke clearly with sharp articulation, but it doesn't sound rehearsed, because they're comfortable being themselves rather than imitating trendsetters or holding back in fear of what others might think. There's just a natural intelligence and quickness of thought while they speak with each other. And for some, a real trepidation of having their private lives captured on camera. They couldn't guess how right they were on that one...

[@lukeyznaga7627]

excellent and accurate analysis and comment, DynamoJoe. Wow, we have lost a lot in modern society, haven't we?

[@LINJ638]

@@lukeyznaga7627 No one cares, fuck hope.

[@RETROGEMS]

You have a great point especially when you mentioned about people years back being comfortable with themselves and not imitating others. I fear that social media has had a quiet but devastating effect on people, especially gen z, in how they interact with others. Individuality is not what's the natural behavior now. It seems to be imitations of imitations of imitations. Too many people's behavior somehow inspired by some goofy nonsense they've absorbed via TikTok. I'm really glad to be an 80s born millennial. We came in just in time--the last few moments of the 20th century where natural human interactions and individuality, not social media obsession [because obviously there was no such thing as sm] was still in practice.

[@lukeyznaga7627]

@@RETROGEMS agreed

[@jackass181920]

Wow someone finally said it…I am also so thankful to have been born January 31st of 1989 and can still say I’m an 80’s baby and not a millennial…seeing these nostalgic videos brings back so many memories of good times…thank you 🙏🏼

[@TJ-id6ee]

Hah, I remember when the Dorothy Hamill haircut was popular! I see a few in this video...and the short and sassy shampoo commercials she did.

[@TnseWlms]

In those days, they didn't clear out the theater after the show. If you came late to a movie, that didn't matter- you just stuck around and waited for the movie to start over, and you watched it until it started to look familiar. To this day, some people say before they leave, "This is where I came in."

[@Faltor895]

I don't know, didn't that happen after Star Wars?

[@joegreen268]

Remember my mom and I watching Return of the Jedi twice because they didn’t clear out the theater after the first showing.

[@Carnage551]

Love the lady that says “2 tickets to rocky please have a nice night little fella”

[@cg-ny9078]

Time stamp?

[@SDS-ee9js]

I didn’t catch that

[@citygirl5705]

You must be commenting on another video.

[@Darkn3tMagic]

I know it’s kind of odd, and probably even morbid to think about. But, watching these old videos, especially before the 90s, I think of all of the people in this video who are no longer here anymore, dont ask me why my brain works that way. It’s crazy to think, this was *over* 40 years ago, these moments will thankfully be kept on the KZbin time capsule for our enjoyment, for the times we want to watch moments from the “good ole’ days”. Thank you for that, please never stop sharing these videos with us!

[@LadyPotions]

I was a child of the 90s and what was also special about old movie theaters was the smell they had of popcorn and of the place in general

[@tonylopez5413]

Whoever lived through the 1970s is lucky they got to experience Rocky and Rocky II

[@thunderbolt2145]

I saw Rocky II at the movies. I was 10. Great experience

[@Vinylgeekdom1980]

@@thunderbolt2145 Rocky II had such an amazing fight at the end with Bill Conti's score. II never gets mentioned enough. So good.

[@thunderbolt2145]

@@Vinylgeekdom1980 I sometimes listen to that score when working out. Great motivator. It has a mythic undertone sound reminiscent of a gladiator fighting until the bitter end; which of course was Rocky

[@TheReubenKincaid]

I literally can sense the smell of the theater…That buttery popcorn smell

[@ChristysChannelYall]

I was 6 in 1978. I don’t remember a lot of the 70’s, but the 80’s is what I remember the most of my whole life. I wish I could go back to then. I’d go catch some of the movies and concerts that I missed.

[@youtubeiscool2693]

I was 8 years old in 1978 but I love the 80s they were the best

[@philsmgb4393]

I remember going to see Pete's Dragon in early '78.

[@-Just-Keep-Going]

It's cool. Great Video. 1978 was an interesting year for movies is what in between Star Wars 77, and Apocalypse Now 79. Even though Star Wars is not there. Grease, Halloween, Jaws 2, and of course Superman are just around the corner. 👍

[@eldo59]

Wish I was around in '78 to see Superman. The music, Christopher Reeve and the flying magic.

[@michaelnugent8181]

i saw superman in 78 i was 5. it was my first time seeing a movie.

[@SJHFoto]

I was very young, but the first movie I saw in the theatre was the Black Hole in 1979. (I was a little too young for Star Wars, but I did see Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in the movies)

[@majestik101]

Mine was 1975's Escape to Witch Mountain! I have fond memories of going to the theater in the '70s.... Gus, Black Hole, Freaky Friday, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Shaggy D.A., Pete's Dragon, The Cat from Outer Space, Candleshoe, Unidentified Flying Oddball, such great times!

[@SJHFoto]

@@majestik101 I saw all of those, but not in the movies. I think my movie journey was a few years later with Tron, Condorman, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and others. But we do have "The Black Hole" in common!

[@Engelbird]

Man my dad took me to see the Black Hole at the Coral theatre in Oak Lawn Illinois. I'll never forget that trippy warp speed sequence and the cool name "Maximilian" .

[@Vinylgeekdom1980]

Massively jealous. I hadn't even been born yet-- a year later. But that movie would have been so awesome to see as a kid on the big screen. I had a VHS copy in the mid-80s I'd wear out from watching it so much.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

Oh man near the start of the 80s, all the badass films at the time, especially those cheesy but unforgettable kung fu movies

[@vampirerobot]

There were some really Golden films from the 70s.

[@MrAllen-fv9cj]

@@vampirerobot mid 70's through late 90's was peak cinema in my opinion!

[@vampirerobot]

@@MrAllen-fv9cj I would agree

[@yudiee333]

No cable tv or streaming videos and devices - it was an event to go see a big show - and a quality one at that

[@madelinebell84]

Ah, yes. The good old days, when you could pay to see a new movie and get change back from a $5 bill! I really miss the 70s and 80s...they were as great as you imagine they were! ❤

[@CaptchaNeon]

Yeah and then you handed off that change to the concessions person and it went to the movie 🍿 theater anyway

[@Andy-kw5nw]

You know what vampire robot, funny that you put ‘78, I was born in ‘73 and I always tell people that my earliest remembrance is seeing the first Superman and Grease that year…………….I actually remember what theaters I saw them at in Miami. I tell people, you won’t believe the things you’ll still remember when you were 5 or 6 years old.

[@vampirerobot]

That's an excellent observation Andy. I always find it curious what people's first recollective memories are.

[@mikemartin354]

Same age as you and the first movies I remember going to the theater to see were Star Wars and Pete's Dragon

[@Y2K3001]

Going to the cinema was a very big deal back in the good ol days, and I don't blame them lol.

[@bamboosho0t]

And the popcorn 🍿 back then was different too. Many theaters used coconut oil and real butter, vs today popping in hydrogenated oils and using butter substitute derived from soybean oil.

[@VivKittie32]

I sure miss it. It’s just not the same these days and let’s not even get started on how much Covid messed it up even more.

[@pittsburge88]

This brings back memories. I worked at the Avco Cinema in Westwood, CA, for a short period in the 80's. The theatre is still there, but the name has been changed to Ipic Theatres.

[@jasonjackson4555]

Yup, I think this is the Avco in Westwood, on Wilshire. I’ve probably only been there a couple of times because the theaters in the Village were more popular.

[@jillian4188]

As someone who didn't get to experience anything until the 90's, I appreciate people like you uploading videos like these! I was born in 1992, but I'm a sucker for the olden days ❤️ My birthday is actually on Saturday, and I'll be 31, so I wonder if I'm the youngest one here 😂

[@jamesdooley5194]

I’m turning 29 on Saturday lol so I think I might be the youngest love these videos

[@gator9339]

I was also born in 92 and I turned 31 in April. These videos make me feel nostalgic for a time I wasn't even alive yet lol. Happy Birthday btw.

[@jillian4188]

@gator9339 , thank you! Happy belated birthday to you too! 🥳

[@tennillej9601]

Born in 91 here, possibly 😂

[@Toi_Gmod]

Wrong, I’m mid 2000’s. I really enjoy watching old recordings like this.

[@andrewwilks5155]

Love seeing this here. I remember being 5 years old in 1978 going to movie theatres in Connecticut with a foster family seeing Disney movies and seeing Star Wars out at Theater a year earlier. This video brings back these awesome memories!

[@scotchbudmeister9018]

I worked at a movie theater in the late 70s. So many good movies. What an era to experience.

[@morbidesque]

look! a movie window with an actual working speaker. Also everyone opted for a movie instead of the Disco on this particular night.

[@vampirerobot]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jonathanwalburgh7560]

The line at 54 was too long, or they got turned away for dressing too conservatively.

[@huntand]

As always, these clips you upload are beautiful...thank you! Truly the best channel ever. This 1970s fashion makes me green with envy

[@vampirerobot]

Wow! That's quite a comment. Thank you!

[@kdfulton3152]

I was starting 11th grade in 78. Omg , Life was so simple then. But thanks to the technology of today, I can still hook up with my friends from 1978! Which I have. 😂❤👍👏

[@MrAllen-fv9cj]

2:18 Good to see even famous people like Richard Dreyfuss going to a public theater back in 1978!

[@vampirerobot]

🤣🤣🤣 thought the same thing

[@teresapflaumer5717]

1978, age 6. Mom couldn't afford the movies much. However, the only movie I saw that year was the biggest one, Grease (at the AMC Marlton 8 in NJ). That was my all-time favorite movie theater experience!

[@zjbell700]

The theme song from The Goodbye Girl by David Gates is just so good. Listening to it along with watching this...ahhhh

[@vampirerobot]

A classic

[@user-ru5ic1mc8g]

I was 18 in 1978 and it was just like this. You couldn’t wait for a certain movie to come out! It was an event! I miss so much about that period in many ways. Everything wasn’t instantaneous like it is now. You had to be patient! You really appreciated these moments since you had to wait. Each moment, going to the movies or buying a certain record that you were wanting made an indelible mark on your memory! Very special times and I am so glad I was born in this period to live through all of it! ❤❤❤

[@bamboosho0t]

This is cool! I wasn't born just yet, but my parents lived in NYC this same time. I was born a month later.

[@Julia___1]

I wasn’t born yet, but I love watching these clip its of the past. Going to the movies was so big back in the 70’s and even 80’s😊😊😊

[@teresapflaumer5717]

Goodbye Girl was a hilarious film! This, Julia, and The Turning Point were all Oscar- nominated for Best Film and the female stars (Marsha Mason, Jane Fonda, and Shirley MacLaine) were nominated for Best Actress.

[@nicolaaversa7517]

man, the experience of waiting in line for a movie seems so foreign now. i haven't done this in a really long time, and i was born in 89.

[@93TiuVl-157HHioLxSq]

You weren't here and you can't relate to this you needy bish. Don't ever come here ever again.

[@_PL_]

I was 12 in 1978 and saw two movies at the cinema that year: Grease and Convoy. I love Goodbye Girl, and actually saw it at a film festival where Richard Dreyfuss did a Q&A afterward. That was about 10 years ago.

[@aniboo72]

I want to watch The Goodbye Girl in a theater.

[@vampirerobot]

It's actually a really good movie.

[@aniboo72]

@@vampirerobot I know! it's one of my favorites. 🙂

[@Mary_O]

I forgot all about the hype for that movie. I don't even remember what it was about.

[@bungeycord5971]

I forgot just how different the bigger bills like 10s and 20s looked like back then vs now. Its also strange seeing everyone use paper money.

[@dantanasgirl]

This is the AVCO THEATRE on Wilshire blvd in Los Angeles.

[@lukeyznaga7627]

I think the fashion for the girls and men back then was better.

[@steel5315]

Its so weird to see everyone paying with cash

[@l337pwnage]

People were more wary of the credit card scam and many businesses could afford to not participate in it yet.

[@redadamearth]

This is amazing footage. Fantastic. It's a shame they didn't go into the screening, itself, it would have been great to see an audience watching "The Goodbye Girl".

[@paul16451]

Oh yes...when I was a small child, this is exactly how I remember waiting to see the first Superman movie, on Christmas eve 1978. It was a big treat that I got to stay up past my usual bedtime, and when I came home the neighbors had lined the sidewalks with white paper bags with tea candles inside (fire safety laws likely were different back then). My mom told me it was to welcome Santa and show him the way. I lived in Florida, so this was possible since there was never snow or ice, and the weather happened to be dry that day.

[@pmafterdark]

Just started my teen years in 78'. Really happy to have grown up in the period I did.

[@Beehashe]

Unfortunately now it’s Good Bye Theater😢

[@vampirerobot]

I hope we don't go there.

[@MichaelSlipko]

I'm all but certain this is the Avco that was in Westwood (Los Angeles). The movies Alien and Apocalypse Now would premiere here a year after this video was filmed. I love this channel! So much real life footage I had no idea was out there.

[@ranchdressing1037]

I love the darkness of 70s-80s videos at night.

[@andrescientos]

I appreciate the ambience of all this footage. I wasn't born until the early 90's but my parents are from this era.

[@greggtaylor4849]

To me, August of 1978 meant going to see REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER

[@jeffreyg607]

❤ Your channel. THANK YOU! Just BRILLIANT, to all who had the foresight to record these times :) Good times!

[@andydhillon1977]

My brothers, born in '73 and '75, used to be dropped off at the movie theater while she went and shopped. Can't do that today!

[@93TiuVl-157HHioLxSq]

Yes you can, you just have to stop being weak and realize that if you lose a couple of kids you can make more.

[@GamerGee]

2:10 those prices

[@abdeton1899]

Totally AWESOME!! Thank you.

[@robertabray-enhus3198]

Goodbye girl is still one of my favorite movies.

[@AnotherTruth]

Omg I love this. The first thing I thought of was superman. This is amazing.

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

The Goodbye Girl… I gotta find a day to watch that!

[@livingintheforest3963]

I used to go to this theater. This is just outside of Westwood Village in West LA, Los Angeles. I remember the theater so well and there’s a famous old restaurant with the sign. I believe it’s a norms or ships? Anyone remember this I was about 15. I’m 60 now.

[@MillerMeteor74]

So cool. I started 10th grade that year. My parents rarely took us to movies, so I've actually never heard of the movies seen here. I'll have to look them up. It's so cool that someone had the forethought to film things like this.

[@IraSiegel]

The best days, I was 7, 8 in December '78.

[@ManorHQ]

Look at those prices on the old letter board businesses used to use! By this time in April 1978, the 50th annual Oscars (for films made in 1977) might have already aired or were getting ready to air on April 3. Julia, The Turning Point, and The Goodbye Girl had many nominations. This may have been B-roll for a news report regarding those titles and the Academy Awards that year. The Turning Point won no awards, The Goodbye Girl won one for Best Actor Richard Dreyfus (who is wonderful in the film btw), while Julia won four including Best Supporting Actress Vanessa Redgrave whose acceptance speech was the "controversy" of the night. As for Star Wars, it was nominated for 10 awards that year but not showing at this theater on this day.

[@johnnyballenatl]

But in the end, Annie Hall was the big winner: Best Actress (Diane Keaton), Directing (Woody Allen), and Best Picture.

[@bobrew461]

@@johnnyballenatl star wars won 6 oscars.

[@johnnyballenatl]

@@bobrew461 Yeah, but I’m referring to the *major* categories.

[@TR47]

Hard to recall Jason Robards getting a top billing. I mostly remember him from movies like Quick Change as the police chief.

[@vampirerobot]

Oh man! What a throwback TR47 that was a great movie. He had so many awesome lines.

[@daved1535]

I always remember him from "Something Wicked This way comes" and "Max Dugan Returns"

[@flutebasket4294]

It was a slow week at the movies 😄

[@sukkaproof7443]

pretty quality video to be from the 70s

[@daved1535]

1978 was the year I saw my 1st movie at the theater. I was 6 years old my mom took me to see Superman

[@talledoj]

This is in Los Angeles-Westwood

[@leahbolotina-fink1109]

It is yes. Not New York.

[@charlessmith3847]

@Vampire Robot: Thank you for these great videos. A correction for your description: This isn’t NYC. It’s Westwood in Los Angeles. (The street shot at 3:30 looks west on Wilshire Blvd. The Ships Galley coffee shop across the street (neon sign) was one of the finest such places ever, and is long gone. The theater is still there, but it hasn’t been an Avco in years, and it was long ago split up into tiny screens.)

[@nerdbamarich2063]

Fantastic 😊

[@theodorerelic2718]

That reminded me of going to the movies at Eastland Theater here in Columbus OH, in late 1979. Our school (Groveport High School) paid for the senior class to go see a collection of I recall two or three, what would likely be called grindhouse pictures (what the hell were they thinking :)). It started right as the mall was closing and we'd be in there till 3AM, with pretty much the full run of the place. I recall sitting in the darkened theater watching these utterly stupid horror movies, while my classmates were, uh, ENTERTAINING themselves in other ways. As in, taking advantage of the dark to engage in, uh, "heavy petting" :), while another guy was setting cherry bombs under some of the seats. Many others were going around the mall itself getting drunk or high (sopors or the ever-dependable weed). And remember, kiddies....we were some of the last of the baby boomers, about to reproduce! But it was all fun, the memories I'll carry for the rest of my days...as a reminder of how crazy it could be back then :)

[@pistachiosandpopcorn7146]

Haha I see the john travolta inspired peeps. I was born in 79 but this is still fun to look at.

[@dave4708]

18 in 1978, no decade was perfect, but 60’s and 70’s were great time to grow up. We had freedom that would be unimaginable now.

[@Mr.NoName1972]

Do you have any video footage of Drive-In movies and Roller skating rinks?

[@conejitaaa]

I love The Goodbye Girl!

[@vampirerobot]

Great movie Bunny!

[@sweetipie1995]

There was a wells Fargo bank those days?😮😂 when it was actually SAFE to be at the movies!!

[@colossusforbin5484]

Wells Fargo has been around since the 1800's.

[@adamn7516]

A $4 movie ticket in 1978 is equivalent to about $18 in todays money so I guess ticket prices really aren't more expensive after all if you look at logically.

[@GermanShepherdDaphne]

My mom was pregnant with me when you filmed this. 😊

[@brianlusk2557]

Grease Damien omen 2 and heaven can wait were my faves

[@daved1535]

This has to be very early in 1978 because the movies listed all came out in 1977

[@jbjbization]

Yes. I’m thinking either late February or early March 1978 post-Oscar nominations.

[@markjanfrancisco5156]

I would love to see a video clip of the movie theater when Halloween! 🎃 came out at the end of 1978

[@brianlusk2557]

Saw many movies with my dad in 1978

[@93TiuVl-157HHioLxSq]

Your Dad is dead now.

[@handrx]

Great video. I have fond memories of this cinema. The AVCO Center was located on Wilshire Boulevard, on the west side of Los Angeles, adjacent to Westwood Village and near the UCLA campus to the north. The theater remains under different ownership (IPIC). Behind the theater is Westwood Village Memorial Park, the final resting place of Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, Burt Lancaster, and many other Hollywood notables.

[@variousJnames]

I remember long lines at the cinema. Our ticket price was $1.50 in 1977 Houston.

[@knuteboy3778]

I was 8 years old in 78. I'll never forget the night my mom and older sisters went to see Queen in concert. So my dad took me and my brothers to go see Superman which had just been released.

[@SoloSailorDave]

Ahhhhhhhh the $4 movie and the best part was the smell of the popcorn..... memories...

[@clevelandphil]

These are two separate theaters here. Avco on Wilshire, and UA on Westwood.

[@bobrew461]

when I used to get dressed up to sit in the dark for two hours! :-0

[@john_cs2253]

Im so happy I found your channel 🎉😮

[@John-ct9zs]

I can't say accurately remember this time, but I have a hazy hazy "feeling" of it rather than a memory. I was born in 1975, I'm 47 about to turn 48. So I have this vague recollection of what I think was the late 70s, I remember being in New York City, my mom says that was late 1978/early 1979, so I was about 3 years old. If you want to talk about the 80s though, I'm there, and obviously the 90s too. But I'm old as dirt, since technically I was around in 1978. I probably would have wanted to see Superman: The Movie as a 3 year old, but I don't remember it coming out, I do remember Superman 2 in 1981 very clearly though.

[@Yogagirl9935]

I was a little too young to go to the movies then. Some of the earliest movies I remember seeing were ET & Return of the Jedi..in the 90’s, when I was in high school, my friends worked at the theater, so I would get in for free & get free popcorn!

[@cwell510]

This must have been around January 1978 because these films were released near the end of 1977.