Saturday morning abc cinema

does anyone remember the abc cinema next to schofields store, i used to go there every sat morning with my mates,when it was your birthday you had to get up on the stage, and remember those badges we collected.

the search button <<<< to the left will bring you up any number of threads on here about the ABC

this, for instance:-

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=123831&highlight=minors+matinee

or this:-

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6584&highlight=minors+matinee

and this:-

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18309&highlight=minors+matinee

I remember going in the 70's and for some starnge reason can only remember one of the films. I think it was made by The Childrens Film Foundation and it was called Chico The Rain Maker. Story was something like this:

some boys keep the shrunken head of 'Chico', a kind of shamen, in their tree house. As far as I can remember they would get the head to make make it rain for them. Why I have no idea. The theme song went: "Chico Chico, rain maker (x3)/Chico paka wana wana maka the rain".

Oh the fun we had

those films were the best, i going to see grease hundreds of times, i would queue for ages, what was that small dumpy bloke that used to be in charge he used to stand on the stage he always got a suit on with a dickie bow

There was a song we all used to sing at the beginning - can hear the tune in my head ! We all shouted ABC at the end ! I remember taking all my birthday cards up on stage and getting a badge ! What was the little guy with the dickie bow called - Uncle ? ...

I can remember going to the ABC in the mid sixties, can anyone remember Dave Berry turning up and giving us a rendition of 'Crying Game'? i can also used to go to the cinema on saturday morning up Upperthorpe, I think it was the Oxford. It was 6d downstairs and 9d up in the gallery. The only films I can remeber was one where all the actors were animals the star being a monkey and one set is Sheffield with the chase being around the steel works on Carlisle street.

Very much remember it, was the venue of my first ever cinema trip.