It’s good to see how many of you are young enough to still have a memory. I started going to the ‘Movie House’ in the little podunk town of San Joaquin Ca in the late 30s and things were so tough that the owner ‘Professor Fiat’ would do magic tricks during intermission for the kids and raffle off bags of groceries for the adults to entice viewers. I think it was called the Rialto and it was the only building standing amid the rubble of 3 or 4 brick buildings on either side.
Of course most of my favorite Westerns were on the radio that were serials and you couldn’t miss a episode because you would get a clue that you used with the secret decoder badge that you got when you sent in 96 box tops from Post Toasties.
and yes I miss the Stattler Bros TV show...
In the 1950's we went to the "Ramona" theater. The Saturday afternoon showing was $0.24 as sales tax would have made it $0.26. A pop and a candy bar came to another $0.15, so for a half dollar, I would still have a little change left for a trip to the "Five and Dime" down the street. Yep, they were the best of times.
Remember William Conrad on Gunsmoke? I have him on a set of CD's that I listen to over, and over.
We still occasionally had live entertainment during intermission at “The Show”, when I was a kid. It was usually a “country/western” band and singer.
I remember the Rialto, but there is 30 odd years difference and about 2000+ miles. ;)
I was born in 1930, I remember those days well. I was born and raised in So-Cal.
I still like those old movies, I have 100’s of DVD’s of old movies. >:-}