A Voice In Salem
A Martian Christmas, The Grinch And The Paramount
Salem's Christmas past ties right into its Christmas present.
If you were an adolescent in the 1960's and a teen in the 1970's you know that television and the movie theater played a real role in your daily existence. Other than radio there was no other electronic media out there. Growing up as local movie theaters were fading, I can only remember two in Salem. There was the Salem Theater and then the decidedly more upscale, at least in appearance, Paramount Theater. Each was located on Essex Street. The Federal, Empire and Rialto Theaters were slightly before my time. Most of the Christmas movies that I remember from childhood were shown on television. To this day my favorite Ebenezer Scrooge remains Alistair Sim in the 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol". Other versions have been well done but …
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Chuck
2:09 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Hey Bill nice piece. Brought back great memories. I remember the Plaza Theater operating into the early 60's with old horror movies. http://www.boxoffice.com/the_vault/issue_page?issue_id=1950-11-18&page_no=101#page_start We used to go to a soda fountan across the street from the Salem Theater. Can't remember the name. more ›