Two men and a picture palace

Featured in

  • Published 20140805
  • ISBN: 9781922182425
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

MANY MOONS AGO, before editing books was a glimmer at the end of my nib, I worked as an usher at Hoyts Midcity Cinemas on Bourke Street in Melbourne. It was the mid 1980s, which puts me in my mid-twenties.

I don’t know how I landed the job. More likely than not, I asked and was given. You could do that in those days. You walked into an establishment that looked vaguely desirable and wouldn’t be too soul destroying and you asked if there was a vacancy. People rarely turned you down and if one day you didn’t show up they presumed you’d given up and moved to Frankston to live on the dole.

Already a subscriber? Sign in here

If you are an educator or student wishing to access content for study purposes please contact us at griffithreview@griffith.edu.au

Share article

More from author

More from this edition

Ting Pei

GR Onlinehe’s a conjurorof shapes tossing trianglesinto blue calling stalksfrom the ground asking waterto dance rocks to slideand roll roofs to boblike sea birds he’s a sculptor            of light  *Ting Pei: architect,...

The city circle

FictionI LIVE IN a suburb where no politician lives and therefore the trams run infrequently, often late and without proper brakes. Two, three times...

Applying life’s lessons

EssayLAST WINTER I was lying in the red dirt in the middle of the Sandover Highway two hundred kilometres northeast of Alice Springs. I...

Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review.