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- From: jdprice@jane.uh.edu (Jerry D. Price, Jr.)
- Newsgroups: houston.eats
- Subject: Re: Houston moviegoers please help
- Followup-To: houston.eats
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:29 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <matta-250193182741@promethium.rice.edu>, matta@bioc.rice.edu (Matt Alexander) writes...
- >
- >Hello,
- > I have recently been exposed to a unique experience called "The Cinema 'n
- >Drafthouse" It is a movie theater, that has tables and chairs instead of
- >regular seats. The theater is a second run theater which means it shows
- >movies taht have been out for a while, but are still good films(usually).
- >The catch is that you can order food(beer, wine, pizza, burgers, nachos
- >etc) and eat while eatching the film. The price of the food is very
- >reasonable, and since it is a second run theater it costs $2.00 or less to
- >get in. I am thinking of getting the rights to put one in the houston
- >area, hopefully near Rice. Is this the sort of thing that people would be
- >interested in? I am from Minnesota, and the one there is doing very well.
- >Please feel free to E-mail or post a reply.
- >Thanks for your help.
- >
- >
- >
- >Matt Alexander
- >Rice University, Dept of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
- >matta@dingo.rice.edu
-
- Matt,
-
- Orlando, FL has had Cinema Drafhouses for at least ten years. According to
- the guys in Orlando (this was 4 years ago), they had started a movie house in
- Dallas and were looking for other sites. I don't know how they are currently
- doing but the idea for Houston would be unique.
-
- Jerry D. Price, Jr
- University of Houston, Center for Information Technology in Education
- JDPrice@UH.Edu?x
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