Picture Palace

Model Town had a cinema a long, long time ago It used to cost us ten rupees to see a picture show. Cowboy films and comedies, cartoons and pathe news And intervals in between for us to visit the loos. A two-hour show on weekday nights with three on Sundays Friday was a day of rest when we would go to pray. And theirs many a model town couple who met beneath its roof Fell in love and married, which only goes to prove. That when the television came and the old cinema had to go Model Town lost a way of life and not just a picture show.