[Fiji Hill]

So kids went to movies on Saturday mornings. And most of us walked to the movie theater because families only had one car and we were used to walking to places. It was a different time.

I was probably one of the last American kids to experience Saturday matinees. The US Army base in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, where my father worked as a Department of Defense Dependent Schools teacher, featured Saturday morning matinees. They would begin with a cartoon, and then a serial such as "Radar Men from the Moon," "Zorro's Black Whip," or "Panther Girl of the Kongo," and then the main feature would be a movie such as "Hands Across the Border" or "In Old Amarillo" starring Roy Rogers or even a horror movie such as "Dinosaurus."

Kids stateside could see all of these on TV, but the experience is not the same as seeing them in the theater.

[shadeaud]

Mickey Mouse club ( oh and Annette Funicello!!! Be still my heart) Spin and Marty, War of the Worlds game, spin the bottle, Post Office, Hide and Seek, RingAleaveeoh, stick ball on the street with the sewer plate was home base,searching for the tower on Jones Beach, ( almost forgot. Flash Gordon along with Dale Rden, Ming the merciless, the Clay people!! Egg creams at She's soda fountain, Orange Spalding punch ball. Nuns used the yard stick and dad used the belt. Life was easy till ....it wasn't