Posted on 06/09/2019 3:32:17 PM PDT by MNDude
When I was a kid, I loved to wake up Saturday morning to watch The Bugs Bunny Roadrunner hour. I bought the Looney Tunes golden collection which should contain most of the episodes, and it is money well spent. Those episodes never get old.
But I was wondering, is there anyone here old enough to remember how they were originally broadcast back in the 40s and 50s? I doubt they had Saturday morning cartoon lineups back then. Did you have to go to the movie theaters to watch them or what?
I think they still have two within driving distance of where I live...
LOL, that never happened to me, although I did nearly break my car window by driving off with one still attached. I had a friend who did the same thing, but the wire broke and he had that speaker in his house for years!
LOL, it took me a few minutes of thrashing around before I realized it wasn’t a site for a specific drive in theater...:)
As I said, we still have three in my state.
Funny you should mention that. There’s a mom and pop drive in burger joint right next to our local drive in. At night the place is lit up so you could see it from space. The proprietor of the drive in asked them to tone it down just a bit during the show but they refused.
So now there are big signs saying “No Food From Next Door” at the entrance. I have no idea how they enforce it. Maybe they do a sniff test or something.
We used to go a couple times a summer to catch a flick. We would pack up our dogs, pop the back of the Family Truckster open, put junk food into ourselves and the dogs, maybe have a beer, and enjoy a fine midwestern summer evening.
Sadly, both our fur balls are gone now so I don’t know if we will go again.
Best,
L
There were Saturday morning “babysitter” cartoons in the ‘50s...
Isn’t that wienie supposed to go into the bun?
LOL...it IS a bit suggestive...just a coincidence...I’m sure...:)
Cab sang “Minnie the Moocher” in the first Blues Brothers movie...
“Much of the senior current democrats came out of all that as the filth they are.”
Exactly. We moved from Milwaukeestan to Madistan in 1970. Dad took Sis & I to the UW Campus to see the Sterling Hall bombing.
Good object lesson; the ‘Rats reinforced how violent and INSANE they are to me from that day forward!
The classical music was everywhere in those cartoons.
Don’t forget Sky King and Rockey Jones.
Three Stooges were no slouches either.
One bit of political incorrectness I enjoyed with the old Speedy Gonzalez cartoons: one episode features Speedy’s cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez, the slowest mouse in all Mexico.
Cat decides Slowpoke would be easy prey. His companion belatedly calls out to him “One thing I forgot to tell you. Slowpoke carries a gun.”. POW!
Some of my earliest black & white TV memories involve Saturday morning cartoons. I was about seven when we first got a TV, so circa 1950-’51.
I know what you mean. Mom and dad kept our old Philco in the living room as a “nice piece of furniture” until the very end. They used it very little during that time.
Sometimes when home on weekends from college or making a laundry run, I turned it on just to see if it still worked. It was still functional when I bought mom and dad a new 15-inch RCA color portable after my graduation and first job out of college. This was around 1967.
The old TV sat there until mom and dad passed away in the eighties, and the executor of the estate sold the home and its furnishings. The old Philco, he put on the curb. And that was the last time I saw it.
Looking back, it was the Ed Sullivan Show, the Twilight Zone, and the Walt Disney shows I watched as a kid that had a lasting impact on my life. It was the Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, and others that instilled some moral values in me that I adhere to this day. It was a great time to be a kid.
My grandfather spoke little english. He ran out little store and could communicate enough with customers. Loved westerns including Lone Ranger and Cisco Kid. but his favorite was Groucho Marx. He got all of Groucho’s jokes and I remember him laughing and enjoying himself, more than at any other time, as we watched the shows together.
The royalties from television syndication (and the public appearances that came with them) were what gave the Stooges the financial benefit they never saw from their “two-reeler” days.
Also Looney Tunes were set to classical music.
I was driving somewhere on a Saturday morning and turned my FM radio all the way to the left and was able to pick the sound from the tv station that was playing Bugs Bunny. The rabbit of Seville.
It was cool.
“Now..Now you see now, that boy’s as sharp as a sack of wet mice.” Foghorn Leghorn.
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