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OT - can any hardcore Star Wars fans help here ?

mrsparkymrsparky Posts: 248
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Recently a good friend gave me two of these original tickets as a thank you gift and I think they look really cool.
Though it's created a nice fun mystery, we don't know what country they came from. So can anyone help here? 

 

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  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,581
    edited March 2018

    My guess would be Hong Kong. It spells Theatre in the British style, so is likely to be a former colony.

    I googled for Ocean Theatre in Hong Kong, and it does exist, but the one I found was a water park, not a cinema

    Hong Kong also uses dollars, so the price would match

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,843

    I was thinking Chinese also based on the text. There is an Ocean theatre in Thailand, but it is modern and the text isn't Thai

    Pretty cool ticket to have though.

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,996

    I think this is the theater - https://gwulo.com/node/36981

  • murgatroyd314murgatroyd314 Posts: 1,567

    It's definitely in Chinese, and written right-to-left. A Google search on 海運戲院 suggests that it's the Golden Harvest Grand Ocean Cinema in Hong Kong.

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,581
    Mattymanx said:

    I think this is the theater - https://gwulo.com/node/36981

    or more accurately "was" the theatre. It appears to have been demolished in 2000

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,843
    Havos said:
    Mattymanx said:

    I think this is the theater - https://gwulo.com/node/36981

    or more accurately "was" the theatre. It appears to have been demolished in 2000

    Interesting as that page says "Grand Ocean Cinema was closed in autumn 2013 for renovation, and reopened in December 2013 with seating capacity of 432. One current ad gives its capacity as 456.  Grand Ocean Cinema continues to operate today."

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,581
    FSMCDesigns said:
    Havos said:
    Mattymanx said:

    I think this is the theater - https://gwulo.com/node/36981

    or more accurately "was" the theatre. It appears to have been demolished in 2000

    Interesting as that page says "Grand Ocean Cinema was closed in autumn 2013 for renovation, and reopened in December 2013 with seating capacity of 432. One current ad gives its capacity as 456.  Grand Ocean Cinema continues to operate today."

    I think that is at a different location.

  • Silent WinterSilent Winter Posts: 3,875

    That's really cool!

    Definitely Hong Kong (I can read where it says 'Star Wars' right to left in traditional Chinese script, and the dollars match as said above).

    Only $3.50 Hong Kong (no idea what the exchange rate was like back then, but that's cheap by today's standards) 

  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727

    Put those in a nice frame for display. Very cool.

  • mrsparkymrsparky Posts: 248
    edited March 2018

    Thanks everyone! Hong Kong it is and as I looked through some of the links, found something else very cool. It seems the theatre was a haunt of Bruce Lee. Who of course was an icon to 60's & 70's kids :)  

    Put those in a nice frame for display. Very cool.

    Oh yes :) Indeed as I said at rendo (where I asked the same question) I was thinking of framing these alongside an original Empre Strikes Back film cell I got by sheer fluke a few years back. 

    Fox wanted to get the Empire trailer out to as many TV stations and movie theatres as possible, so they put the trailer onto rolls of film left over from the production of Empire, including rolls with deleted and unused scenes. These where originally meant to be thrown away. Fortunately someone rescued some and on one roll was 2-3 seconds of the now infamous "Wampa Room" deleted scene...3:56 in at...

    Obviously at such a short duration this wasn't much use, so the roll was cut into indiviual cells which where sold at just $20 each. As we all do, browsing away looking for something else and clicked on the wrong link..and well it's only 20 bucks would be my excuse to the better half:) 

     

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