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Blake’s Alamo Downtown Blog-a-Tho­n Entry: Updated

Posted by Blake on Sunday, June 24 2007 at 8:00 pm

So me and Jette are doing the Alamo Downtown Blog-a-Tho­n. The main post for this is at her site on Slackerwood (www.slackerwood.com) with links to all those participating and their stories. The communal collection of imagery can be found on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/tags/alamoblogathon).

It certainly wasn’t the most ideal place by any stretch of the imagination one would think a movie theatre could thrive in, but the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown did. Give any other movie chain big or small the same space and I doubt it would last a month. For Tim and Karrie League, showing movies weren’t enough. They wanted to bring movie magic to audiences that packed their theatre. Continually they worked over the years to cultivate the movie going experience to be richer and more diverse. The fruits of their labor were the expansion of other theatres but more importantly an expanded movie going consciousness and renewed love of cinema in all that went through its doors throughout the years. It brought people together, gave little heard of films a chance to shine and gain new fans and most importantly provided movie going experiences of a lifetime that were simply priceless and wouldn’t work in any other setting but there in its theatre with its Austin crowds. The downtown location maybe moving but the original location on Colorado will live on in movie lore history and our movie loving hearts.

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