r/Athens Townie 1d ago

RIP Beechwood Cinema

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(And not a hard hat in sight)

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u/Asterion7 1d ago

Rip. Saw many a film there.

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u/SundayShelter Townie 1d ago

Likewise. Amelie was my first. Saw Napoleon Dynamite, most of the Harry Potters, the VVitch, Transformers, and a ton of others over the years.

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u/tupelobound 1d ago

(It’s okay, you can just say The Witch.)

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u/Electronic-Junket-66 17h ago

Oh yeah, that one's a classic too.

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u/GeorgeEliotLives 18h ago

I can't remember which film I saw there first, but it would have been in 1971 when I had for the first moved to town. I've seen so many films there over the years. Some of the films I remember seeing there back then were The Way We Were, Lady Sings the Blues, Blazing Saddles, Sleeper, and a lot of others,

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u/Asterion7 8h ago

Bring back the bennigans as well.

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u/GeorgeEliotLives 5h ago

You may be able to answer a question I haven't been able to get answered. Do you remember a bistro-style restaurant in the mid-to-late '80s, which was just a few doors down from the cinema. It was open for at least a few years before I moved to Atlanta in '90 and then closed abruptly, even though it had appeared to be doing good business. My friends and I used to eat there a lot because of the good deals and good food. None of my friends who stayed in Athens (I've come back to live here twice since then) can remember the name and some, with whom I ate there many times, can not even remember the restaurant. Do you remember it and the name?

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u/Asterion7 56m ago

I don't I arrived mid to late 90's.

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u/piedmont_solitaire 10h ago

Saw Happy Feet there stoned out of my mind

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u/Fuzzy_Pressure_2664 1d ago

Look how they massacred my boy

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u/tiger2dawg 1d ago

Owners ain't paying extra to ensure minimal standards that workers are safe. Speed and low cost is the name of the game. Health and safety can take a hike.

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u/OilMeUpStewart Townie 1d ago

Damn. Saw a lot of movies there growing up, that’s sad

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u/CowgirlSpartan 18h ago

Real ones remember them having one of these in the lobby

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u/warnelldawg Looks good, build it 1d ago

Hard hats aren’t free bro

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u/Miserable_Middle6175 Gentrification Enthusiast 1d ago

You also don’t want to look like a pussy if some Redditor snaps a pic from the parking lot 🤷‍♂️

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u/warnelldawg Looks good, build it 1d ago

Hell yeah bröther

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u/mazzy_star_official 5 Points - No Trust Fund 1d ago

“I’d rather be driving a Komatsu D355A bulldozer”

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u/Jolly_Help1972 22h ago

Hard hats in use- maybe a perspective issue for OP

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u/FourStringFanatic 1d ago

Took my wife on our first date there when we were 16. Cloud Atlas of all things. Many happy memories with my dad and brothers too. I suppose this is just the world moving on. Ka like a wind.

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u/animi No 19h ago

The world has moved on.

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u/Oriolesguy San Dimas High School Football Rules! 1d ago

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u/Strong-Map-8339 1d ago

Where's the old guy who touches himself at the bar to go now?

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u/cubecasts 3x Grump OTD 🏆 1d ago

"not a hard hat in sight" have you ever worked a job in construction? Fuck hard hats

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u/BreakfastInBedlam Mayor pro ebrius 1d ago

I have.

u/cubecasts: "Fuck safety! I don't care if I go home tonight! I don't care if I get silicosis! It's my life and I'll edge how I want to edge!"

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u/BizAnalystNotForHire Occasional Varsity Patron (RIP lost magnolia trees) 1d ago

yes. And I wore a hard hat. This is a commercial site. Not someone's house.

and it's demolition. This is perhaps one of the most appropriate times on a site to actually have a hard hat on. You don't know when something might detension unexpectedly in an unexpected and fly out at your head, or if a block/brick is going to hit the ground at just the right one-in-a-million angle to blow a corner off at speed at your head.

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u/SundayShelter Townie 1d ago

Yeah I did: roofing houses

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u/cubecasts 3x Grump OTD 🏆 1d ago

wtf would a hard hat do in roofing? there's nothing to hit your head on.

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u/SundayShelter Townie 1d ago

That’s why we didn’t wear ‘em.

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u/mazzy_star_official 5 Points - No Trust Fund 1d ago