After a bit of a break we’re back this week down in sunny Florida again, this time on the Gulf Coast in the Tampa/St. Pete area, where the screens were definitely warming up. It’s interesting to look back now and realize that you could go to a regular family oriented shopping mall, in this case the Bartow Mall, and catch MIDNITE PLOWBOY while the wife shopped over at the Sears and Junior and his buddies hung out at the food court! One other thing to note, the Cinema 69 is technically still around and showing adult fare, although at a different location (it was forced to move 1994) and going by a different name now, Fantasyland II.
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