The Downtown St. Louis Partnership is always looking for ways to entertain and engage the downtown St. Louis residents. One of the latest projects is the showing of movies at the Old Post Office Plaza, downtown’s latest public space. We went to the first movie Thursday evening, a showing of Jaws.
When we arrived at the Plaza, we were met by the sight of a twenty-foot tall inflatable TV. The “inflatable” aspect applied to the frame, the image was displayed on a standard projection screen with the projector working from behind the screen. Before the movie started, the organizers passed out ballots to determine what the next film would be. After Jaws was over, they announced that the next movie would be Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I’ve probably seen Jaws a dozen times, but it was still fun to see it again. That movie freaked me (and everybody else) out when it was released in 1975. I had nightmares for months about seeing Ben Gardner’s head.
The Plaza event was fun. There was a hot dog vendor there and he was doing a brisk business; he sold out of dogs and sausages before the movie was over, though he’d been there since 10 AM, so he didn’t sell them all at the movie. The weather was great, cool and low humidity, low for St. Louis, anyway, and our folding chairs were comfortable. We’ll probably go back to see the next movie unless it’s too hot and sticky.
- Poppa
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