before Covid we had a little group here who rented out a room in a restaurant one night a week for about 12-14 weeks in the fall and the spring and showed old movies for $3 a pop, plus you could buy dinner. A good mix of stuff from the 30s to the 50s. Most weeks they sold out the room, 80-90 people. I started going every week after a while because even the pictures I didn't think I'd like, I liked. Even the ones I'd seen before, it was different to see in a room with a crowd. But a lot I'd never seen.

I think the biggest crowd for any new release I went to was 25 or 30 and I forget what movie that even was. Of course we'd wait to go well after the opening, but still.