Usually, one of the older kids from the neighborhood worked there and I would never having a problem getting in because I knew someone. Perhaps because it was in walking distance, it was clean, affordable and safe.
Sometimes I'd go to the show as we called it then, alone and the Norwest was one of my favorites. As I reached adolescence, Blaxsploitation and Kung Fu flicks were all the rage so my friends and I would catch buses to downtown Detroit or over to the Mercury and watch triple features. My love affair with movies had begun a few years earlier by watching Bill Kennedy, Rita Bell and even Sir Graves Ghastly. Where do I begin? My family moved to the Harlow and Puritan in the early 70s. I've since retired from the Detroit police department in June of 2013 and has since moved to Texas but my earlier memories of the norwest still make me smile. As Detroit police officer I've made several arrests in and around the norwest for various offenses one day while working I received a police run at the norwest after it was closed for good about someone inside stripping the building, when I arrived I found the rear door open and there was mold everywhere so I checked the basement and there was several feet of water down there but I found no one inside. I've watch the area become crime ridden and it wasn't safe to even park in the parking lot.
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But the very last movie I saw there was dead presidents in 1995. We would walk or ride our bikes but mostly walk, I've seen at the Norwest smokey and the bandit, let's do it again, sparkle, eat my dust, food of the gods,blood of the dragon, breakin', beatstreet, Halloween, ect. In 1970 when I was seven I saw my first movie at the norwest and it was the sound of music with Julie Andrews on a school field trip, I lived on mark twain between Intervale and Lyndon and as a young child I've seen several movies at the norwest some with my parents and as I got into my teenage years with my friends. These billboards were scale for a Lionel train landscape and were engraved with United Detroit Theaters. That struck me as odd, for even as a 9 or 10 year old I knew that movie releases in theaters were losing out to more and more television watching, so was it a case of - if you can't beat them, join them? Across Grand River at the south-west corner of Longacre, there was a shoe store called Hansel & Gretel, and they had some how been given miniature highway billboards of current movies playing in and around Detroit. After the remodeling in '61 (?) they added a waiting room off of the newly paneled lobby with a television in it. There were silver dollar give aways in the summer with the right movie stub number, and snow cones at the concession stand. It was a double feature house then, with the occasional Neighborhood Premiere single attraction, such as Ben-Hur or Dr. But the Norwest was the main venue of movie going as I lived south of this theater on Longacre. Growing up in the 1960s I frequently went to a trio of theaters up and down Grand River Ave, from the Redford out on Lasher, to the Great Lakes, east of Greenfield.
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