Spying On Area Movie Screens – Jan. 13, 1965

Sixty years ago, there was a lot of spying going on when it came to area movie screens. One of the very best in the James Bond series – Goldfinger – was playing at both the Palace in Lorain and the Avon Lake Theater, thus dominating the Journal movie page above from January 13, 1965. (Remember when the release of a new James Bond film was a major event? And when it eventually was shown on TV, it was something you stayed up all the way to 11 o'clock to see.)

Meanwhile, the "Carry On" gang had their spoof of the James Bond films: Carry On Spying, which was playing at the Ohio Theatre. (I'm always a little surprised to see the 'Carry On' films playing in Lorain.

Meanwhile, Cary Grant was starring in his next-to-last film, the classic Father Goose, showing at the Tivoli.

Elsewhere on the page: a group calling themselves The Ink Spots was performing at Benny's on West Erie Ave., but it wasn't the original group (which disbanded in the 1950s) and most likely had no original members at all; there were still some Hoop Restaurants that hadn't been converted to Manners Restaurants; and a nice story about three generations of an Avon Lake family all bowling on the same Ladies' League at Aquamarine Lanes.