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If you want the full retro experience while watching the Jets' playoff games, you might want to check out the Park Theatre.

The Osborne Street institution, which was a first-run movie theatre from 1915 until 1988, plans to show Game 1 between the Jets and Anaheim Ducks from Anaheim's Honda Center on Thursday and Game 3 from Winnipeg on Monday on its 32-foot, high-definition movie screen.

PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Erick Casselman says earlier bookings, such as Metal Fest, will be honoured.

Owner Erick Casselman showed last Thursday's game against the Colorado Avalanche -- the night the Jets clinched the city's first NHL playoff berth in 19 years -- after one of his friends noticed there was nothing on the theatre's calendar that night.

"He asked about bringing a couple of buddies down. We tweeted it out a couple of hours before game time, and 70 people showed up," he said.

"A bunch of those guys asked why wouldn't we show all of the playoff games. We'll show what we can."

Sometimes, previous bookings take precedence. For example, on Saturday, the Park is hosting the 13th annual Metal Fest, a night of heavy-metal music (and hair) featuring seven bands.

"Unless you want to tell 350 heavy-metal fans that we're showing the Jets game instead, I don't think it's going to happen," he said.

And there's no sense showing a Jets game if you're not going to support the Whiteout.

"The more people who get into it the better. The more people that come in wearing white, the cheaper we'll make our bar prices," he said.

As a full-scale entertainment venue for the last decade, the Park has upgraded its longtime offering of popcorn, soda and licorice. It has two bars and serves food from the Deseo Bistro next door.

The Park has showed sporting events in the past, including the Jets' first game after relocation against the Montreal Canadiens in the fall of 2011, as well as some World Cup soccer.

A decision whether to show the Jets games on the giant screen overlooking the courtyard in front of 201 Portage has not yet been made.

True North officials have also not decided whether to show the out-of-town playoff games at the MTS Centre.

geoff.kirbyson@freepress.mb.ca