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jT Thursday, April 23, 1981
Local theaters offer matinees, special prices
And you still have money for popcorn
By Colette Hutchings
Battalion Staff
The traditional dinner-and-a-
movie date may not be as inex
pensive as it once was, but by
taking advantage of special dis
counts at local theaters, the
evening won't cost quite as
much.
These discounts range from
the traditional lower matinee
costs to special back-to-school
discounts for college students.
Campus, Manor East and Plitt
theaters offer a variety of admis
sion price discounts for
moviegoers of all ages.
The Saturday and Sunday
matinee rates at Manor East rfl
Theaters in Manor East Mall are
$1 off regular admission prices
of $3.50 for adults, $2.50 for chil
dren 11 to 14, and children 10
and under, $2.
Plitt Cinema I and II Theaters
in University Square Shopping
Center give matinee discounts
during the first 30 minutes the
theater is open for more than
two showings of a film.
The matinee admission price
is $2 for adults and $1.75 for chil
dren 14 and under.
Special night discounts are
another way to see cheap
movies, and Tuesday is one of
the best nights for the discounts.
Manor East has the Tuesday
evening "KTAM Family Night
at the Movies."
Adults pay $2.50 and children
accompanied by an adult get in
free.
On Tuesday nights Plitt Thea
ters have $1 admission.
Campus theater, 210 Univer
sity Drive, has a Thursday night
special — all seats are $1.50.
Tom Wheeler, manager of
Plitt Theater, said the night dis-
counts help business.
"Our Tuesday night crowds
are like our Friday night
crowds," Wheeler said.
Bill Schulman, owner and
manager of the Manor East,
Campus and Skyway Drive-Inn
Schulman plans to
build a six-complex
indoor theater
theaters, said his discounts are
offered with the family in mind.
Schulman said he started a $1
per person Monday night spe
cial at Skyway Drive-Inn, 2000
E. 29th St., for Monday night
football widows.
"I thought the moms could
take the neighborhood kids to a
movie while the dads were
watching the football games,"
Schulman said. But because of
vandalism by a few "spoilers,"
Schulman said, he had to stop
having the Monday night spe
cial.
Schulman said he plans to
build a six-complex indoor thea
ter called the Schulman Six on
East 29th St. in Bryan.
The theater is scheduled to be
completed in December.
Every September Manor East
has a "Back-to-School" special
for Texas A&M University stu
dents. Students receive $1 off
Special night
discounts are one
way to see cheap
movies
the regular admission price
when they show a current Texas
A&M ID card.
For the older moviegoer,
Manor East offers a senior
citizens' discount — $1 off regu
lar admission price.
Plitt Theater sells reduced
admission tickets to organiza
tions or groups who sell the tick
ets wholesale. A group may pur
chase the tickets and sell them
for $2 a piece.
Skaggs Alpha Beta used to sell
the tickets but stopped selling
them about two months ago.
Skaggs manager Cam Cope said
they stopped because they ha
ven't received tickets from the
theater.
Wheeler said Skaggs had been
denied sales of the tickets as
they were selling the tickets for
profit and not for promotion.
Rudder Box Office also sold
the reduced admission tickets
but stopped last summer, a
spokesman for the Box Office
said.
The City of College Station
employees and the Bank of Col
lege Station participate in the
program now.
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