Posted on 09/18/2014 9:58:36 AM PDT by Chgogal
It's a video and a very cool video IF you are a certain age. And I am. ; )
Most of the rest will be gone soon.
The studios have almost completely switched to digital format. The projectors are big bucks, and most of the drive-ins still operating don’t have that kind of money.
Here’s an article about a theater near where we have some property in WV that talks about the new projectors.
http://www.statejournal.com/story/23981347/mt-zion-drive-in-mounts-a-fight-to-stay-open
It’s from 2013. I checked and the theater is still open.
Don’t know if they managed to get a projector. I know they tried to get some sort of crowd-funding grant at one point.
Even I know some of those pix are not original/contemporary to the period in question! LOL
I’m so old, that this is all new-dangled stuff to me!!
A couple of technicalities...
The Flip Wilson show was not from the ‘50s.
That Pan Am image is not from the 50s; it’s from a recently cancelled TV show.
Other than that...
Oh, the memories!
Other things I’ve found ...From my old Nov 26, 1963 newspaper(kept because of the Kennedy killing)
NEW FULLY EQUIPPED 1964 PICKUPS! $225 DOWN! $54.60 PER MONTH! (In those days you financed a new truck for 24 months. A used truck for 18 months)
WHITE SEWING CENTER SEWING MACHINE AND DESK FOR $57.00.
BRAND NEW ROYAL PORTABLE TYPEWRITER $59.95 plus tax.
SEARS TOY TOWN
MATTEL’S NEW GUERRILLA GUN $2.39
BIG MARX Missle-firing field guns $9.99
Easy Running SEARS tricycles $6.99
SEARS AUTOMATIC WASHERS $139.
MATCHING CLOTHES DRYER $109
MOTOROLA TV $125 (Black and white)
CONSOLE TV $189.95 (b&w)
GIBSON REFRIGERATOR $248.88
CONSUMERS K.C.MARKET
T BONE STEAK 95 Cents a pound
Sliced bacon 45 cents a pound
Pork Chops 43 cents a pound
ALL MADE IN THE USA. Now, plug these into the inflation calculator and see what they would cost today.
That was nice.
Thanks, it sure sounds like they’re fighting an uphill battle, hope it works out.
Al Stewart - (A Child's View Of) The Eisenhower Years
It's by Al Stewart, who sang Year of the Cat and Time Passages back in the seventies.
In 1959, we went to a theater to see a movie. It was 25 cents for kids, 50 cents per adult. My dad almost had apoplexy over that price!
We were never allowed to go again.
I recognize more people and know their names in that video than people I watch in current TV series.
I long for the days of conservative Republicans!
That’s right! Gas wars!
27 cents / gallon in Tampa, 1971
I can still taste those little wax coke bottles and the tiny bit of liquid that was in them. I would chew on the wax till it was dried out and then spit out the small crumbled pieces.
I lived in Loma Linda, California, in the early 80s. Me and my buddies used to sit on the back wall of the Tri-City Drive In and watch movies for free. I left the area in 85, but I’m sure it must be closed by now.
More “Just Wow!” I just found an old Roswell Daily Record (New Mexico) May 7, 1945.
Headline...
GERMANY QUITS WAR
Surrenders to Western Allies
Anyone notice that those old newspapers were 17 inches wide?
By 1964 they were 15 inches wide.
Now they are 11 inches wide.
“Did you have a 6 transistor or a 10 transistor radio?”
Ha, I wish! My first radio had 2 transistors. I still have it. My buddy’s radio had 6 and could pull in more stations.
In the early 50s, a Saturday cartoon marathon for the kids was $.09 admission. I would go with my buddies and after the show we would buy model airplane kits for $.10 -$.15. Entertainment for the whole day for less than a quarter. But, as you say, feature movies were $.25 admission. Most theaters changed the movies shown twice a week.
“Most people are happy when they’re kids, “
—
I was a young adult female in the fifties.
Poodle skirts,dark cocktail lounges,martinis and cigarettes.
Heaven.
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