Who would have thought that over seventy years after the first Odeon opened its doors that a new 5 screen state of the art cinema would once again appear.
It poses the question as to what happens to the seventy year old listed building which proudly displayed the neon ODEON sign for most of that time. Now in its neglected state, a reminder of days long gone when Llanelli town centre boasted not five screens but five cinemas!
The highlight of our week as children was always the Saturday morning film show with hundreds of us being led across the busy traffic lights by older boys known as ‘marshals.’
The main film always had a moral message amid the roars of excitement as the baddies met their match. Then there was a cliff hanging serial which got us back the following week; and what about that song? still in my mind after all these years -‘We come along on a Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a smile’.
Forgive me if I’m getting a bit nostalgic, or rather is it showing my age!
Nostalgia need not always be negative and sentimental. Often we can look back with fondness; other times we may not want even to go there because the memories are just too painful.
Learning from the past can be of great benefit, staying there and letting the circumstances of the past intimidate and control the present can have a stifling affect on our lives.
In gratitude to God for his faithfulness we can treasure the past, live in the present and be confident for the future because God is with us each step of the way.
Rev. David Jones
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