HELP !

In the summer of 1965 I was 9 years old.  The local shopping center, Brown Port, had a new movie theater open in February:

https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/31412/

Previously the closest theater to my house was the Fox-Bay on Silver Spring in Whitefish Bay.  The Brown-Port theater was easier for kids to get to, although the Fox-Bay had a balcony.  One weird fact, one of my classmates lived on Port Washington road at the entrance to the theater.  His family actually physically moved their house about a mile south to Glendale, just past the Lutheran church.

Anyway, I wish I had access to the Milwaukee Journal archives to verify this but I remember going to see the Beatles movie, HELP! multiple times that summer at the Brown-Port with my friends.  So I remember the movie.  A copy of HELP! was posted on Youtube:




source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUAbwGnxRXk


The stuff I thought was the coolest was near the beginning:

They approach 4 different row houses

but inside it's just a big clubhouse

Built in vending machines

Ringo was in the pit for You've Got To Hide Your Love Away



is that a record player to the upper right of the grass cutter guy ?

Paul could play all the instruments

Of course they all lived in a giant Beatle clubhouse :)  John had the pit.  George had the man who trimmed the grass (in the house) with novelty chattering teeth.  Paul had a pop up movie organ with comic books on the music stand.  But the coolest thing of all was the wall with the vending machines !  I just smile thinking about that.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm 




Comments

WB9KZY said…
see my next blog post for an answer to what that thing is in the scene with George and the grass cutter guy:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2026/04/answering-my-own-question-from-yesterday.html