Photo from scrivner of flickr.Restaurant Row Theaters was the dollar theater of Honolulu. For a total price of $2.00 (pricing had recently climbed to $3.00) we used to be able to see some of the interesting, or not so interesting, movies just before they came out on DVD. The theater had a 50 year lease at $1.00 a year with the plaza it's in and it's been there for 15 years so far. But recently the plaza was bought out and the new owners are trying to "clean up" it's image. They think the cheap entertainment attracts the "wrong" crowd of people. (I guess that includes my wife and me along with the hundreds of other young couples I've seen go there.) So the plaza offered the theater millions of dollars and bought them out of their lease. Bye bye dollar theater.
Our last option for cheap movies is the "Red Box" or "DVDPlay" at the grocery stores. It's cheap and easy to use, although the movie selections are minimal. But, $1.00 beats the $10.00 you'll have to pay at the full-priced theater or $5.00 at Blockbuster to rent.
Picture from videobusiness.com
We drove by there the other day and noticed it had closed it's doors for good. What a bummer. It was fun being able to see movies for cheap there with you guys. We'll just have to go to each other's places for movie nights more often! ;-)
ReplyDeleteHowdy! I recommend RedBox too. In fact, on the first Monday of the month you get a free movie when you type in a promo code. Go to redbox.com and enter your junk mail email address for the code. Enjoy!
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