{"id":9414,"date":"2013-08-14T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2013-08-14T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:47:36","slug":"how-movie-theaters-have-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-movie-theaters-have-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"How Movie Theaters Have Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081313_1400_HowMovieThe1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kara Kovalchik wrote about 11 Things We No Longer See in Movie Theaters. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cry rooms. In the past theaters would offer a special soundproofed room with a clear glass window so that parents could take their crying children to a place where they wouldn&#8217;t disturb other moviegoers, while still allowing the parents to enjoy the movie.<\/li>\n<li>Double features. Back in the day audiences would be outraged at the idea of seeing only one movie. A ticket bought you admission to two movies \u2013 the headliner, and then an older or less well-received film.<\/li>\n<li>Newsreels. Before the age of widely available television, footage of major news events would be shown in movie theaters.<\/li>\n<li>Ashtrays. Cup holders are a relatively recent feature of theaters, having first become popular in the late 1960s, and still not available in older cinema halls. But every seat did once have an ashtray.<\/li>\n<li>Dish Night. In a bid to draw audiences when money was tight during the great depression, theaters would give away dishware such as coffee cups or dinner plates once a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find the entire list over <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/52164\/11-things-we-no-longer-see-movie-theaters\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/52164\/11-things-we-no-longer-see-movie-theaters\">Mental Floss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kara Kovalchik wrote about 11 Things We No Longer See in Movie Theaters. Highlights include: Cry rooms. In the past theaters would offer a special soundproofed room with a clear glass window so that parents could take their crying children to a place where they wouldn&#8217;t disturb other moviegoers, while still allowing the parents to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081313_1400_HowMovieThe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9417,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions\/9417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}