Beyond being simple buildings, cinema venues have important roles in building the cultural history of societies. Examining the cinema experiences which give clues about the lifestyles, traditions, customs and habits of societies in this context is also important in terms of showing actually how societies evolved from past to present. Cinema venues are public spaces that meet the needs of individuals to have fun and socialize, and these spaces creates one of the fundamental parts of the cultural lives of societies. Considering the existence of culture is because of the places, the importance of the cinema venues as the places that carry the cultural traces of the society can be understood. Examining the places means examining the culture and from that point also examining the society. In this study through the case of Samsun, it was tried to reach the retrospective traces of the cinema venues through the memories of the people and so an important cultural space could be analysed by applying the memories of the individuals. In this study, how the cinema venues were used in the 1960s and 70s, how the films and the characters in the films were watched and perceived, how the cinema experiences effected the daily lifestyles and the socialization of the individuals were discussed and thus very important data from those years were reached. It showed that the studies on oral history in Turkey which examines the cultural and sociological aspects of the cinema venues are not sufficient in number. Cinema is a comprehensive field of study with the place, film culture, the styles of watching and socialization, man-woman relationships, paradoxes and rituals of the real and imaginary world. Because of that in the study oral history method which is an effective method to reach the sociological and cultural traces of societies was used. This study, which examines the past cinema venue experiences of 6 people, provides us with important data on the social and cultural functions of the cinema venues and data belong to Turkish culture through the case of Samsun and it also carries the traces of the past.