Heights reach above 600 meters, and in fact, there is an observatory atop the neighbouring Es Peni mountiain.

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One guy would buy a ticket at the Acme, or the Peni-a-cade -- those were the two cheapest theaters -- and then the guy who paid would fling open the back doors and everybody else got in free. (How's the usher supposed to catch fifteen guys?) It was movies that brought the roar of the Twenties to North Beach.

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