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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Reading a story this morning that just gives me such

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Speaker 2: a nostalgia hit and a sadness. Really, the cinemas in

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Speaker 2: George Street might be ripped down for a skyscraper apartment.

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Speaker 1: They put up residences because we need some more of

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Speaker 1: those in stuff.

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Speaker 2: That's what skyscraper apartments are. Brendan, you know that cinema

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Speaker 2: complex in George Street is iconic, isn't it? With our

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Speaker 2: team right up till today, I'm going and you'd meet

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Speaker 2: your friends. I think it was the AGL Building and

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Speaker 2: it's meet your friends to no phones, so you just

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Speaker 2: say I'll see there at three o'clock and you would

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Speaker 2: you turn up, You take the train into town and

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Speaker 2: meet at three and you have.

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Speaker 1: To avoid the tofts who were all smoking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah they were scary, weren't they the tough but it

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Speaker 2: was exciting. And then I remember going to see movies

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Speaker 2: like what were the ones that had all cents around

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Speaker 2: the earthquake and sense around and towering inferno beside an adventure.

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid, you go into

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Speaker 1: the city because there was nothing in the suburbs growing up,

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Speaker 1: and there was nothing a single coffee. There was a

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Speaker 1: cinema and cronulla, but there was only a week one

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Speaker 1: or two. And yeah, you were the same, and you

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Speaker 1: go into the city to watch a movie in particular,

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Speaker 1: were and saw Star Wars. Yes, and you go and

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Speaker 1: see you go to the center Point tavern, have caught

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Speaker 1: a chicken and chips and then and I remember Dad

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Speaker 1: used to drive the car and he'd park it right

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Speaker 1: out the front of out of the cinema, really at

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Speaker 1: the front of George Jack. Yeah, but just park out

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Speaker 1: the front. And then that's what you be able to

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Speaker 1: do in the city when it was cool. You can't

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Speaker 1: park a car anyway.

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Speaker 2: We never did that. We would I'd meet my friends

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Speaker 2: in the city. I remember going to see Star Wars,

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Speaker 2: and I've written about this in my diary. Coming out

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Speaker 2: of the cinema, I was shocked that the world was

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Speaker 2: still the same, because that film was so mind blowing

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Speaker 2: that I couldn't believe. I came out and I still

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Speaker 2: just in George Street. But the thought of that not

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Speaker 2: being there anymore, so many memories of flirting with boys

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Speaker 2: and the movies you'd see. That was our only social outlet.

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Speaker 2: There was a poster shop. Do you remember was it

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Speaker 2: next door and you'd wait for the movie. You'd just

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Speaker 2: flick through the posters that were in those holders. Spent

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Speaker 2: hours just flicking through the posters.

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Speaker 1: And even to this day we go along there to

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Speaker 1: see movies. Now we were just there recently. What was

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Speaker 1: the last movie we went and saw? We saw Renees

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Speaker 1: Elwiger's movie there.

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Speaker 2: So the building started as Heutz Complex In nineteen seventy six.

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Speaker 2: They had a big opening with a giant elephant out

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Speaker 2: in the front. I'm looking at a picture of it now.

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Speaker 2: Those were the days of performing elephant with the opening

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Speaker 2: of a cinema.

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Speaker 1: It was Harry Seekum.

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Speaker 2: So they're saying here that this is a planned A

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Speaker 2: skyscraper is planned to replace the cinemas.

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Speaker 1: But they're gonna have a movie theater in there.

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Speaker 2: I think so. And they're saying this will happen if approved.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think it's happened just yet.

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Speaker 1: The front and flirt with the smoking tuftsund bet I

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Speaker 1: am Jonesy and Amanda in Good Morning