“People would buy a ticket and according to how many would show, they would give a prize. It might end up $400 that night that somebody would get.” – Tootsie Emin, Yarmouth, NS

“We’d deliberately scare ourselves after we saw a scary movie so we could scream and run home to our parents.” – Wendy Elliott, Wolfville, NS

“The carvings up around the stage, that was all hand-done! And they put on plays. And of course when they had the movies, it was just a big screen that sat in the middle of the stage.” – Frances Llewellyn, Georgetown, PEI

“In those days the newsreels brought you up on the news of the world, but Bruce Yeo would bring you up on what was coming around Montague.” – Jock Beck, Montague, PEI

“When I was young there were two movies theatres in King’s Square, which is at the heart of town, at the top of King Street, which really functions as the main street of the city.” – Jody Kliffer, Saint John, NB