When he was a child, each neighborhood, no matter how marginal, had its own cinema. Pompeii, for example, had the Sáenz cinema, where they took him on a school trip to see The Saint with the Sword.
The winds of the end of the century swept away the neighborhood cinemas, which ended up being converted into evangelical temples, dance halls or parking lots. Each era has its own ways of making money and, from the eighties onwards, the idea of living off a giant cinema in peripheral areas was exhausted.