Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meyerson said the letter denying his theater's application arrived late Friday afternoon, four days after the original hearing and just hours before a scheduled midnight showing of "Eraserhead...
...were shocked because the Board's decision, which we only received late Friday afternoon, seemed so discriminatory and arbitrary," Harvey Meyerson, manager of the theater, said yesterday. At least three other Cambridge theaters regularly show midnight movies on Friday and Saturday night...
Mary E. Calnan, chairman of the licensing board, said the board denied the application because midnight showings at the Brattle Theatre "would result in increased congestion in Harvard Square and would require more police protection in the early morning...
Cambridge Fire Chief William Cremin said that allowing midnight shows would "create a bad precedent." Cremin, Calnan, and Police Chief Leo Davenport, constitute the licensing board...
Both Calnan and Cremin said they were unaware that other Cambridge theaters show midnight movies, but said they could not positively state that no other theaters hold a permit...