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To: TalBlack

LOL! “Back in the day,” the 1940s, every little town in NE Missouri had a movie house. In my dad’s hometown ... too small for a theater ... they’d get a movie in by train and project it on the wall of the electrical generator house. My grandfather, the air-raid warden, would issue a brief air-raid siren blip thirty minutes before the movie was to start, so people could get in from the far end of town or the farms.

By the 1970s, it was a long drive to a movie.


86 posted on 05/04/2014 3:58:02 PM PDT by Tax-chick (There is no Star Wars, there is only Zuul.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’m saving the watching of ‘Star Wars’ for one of those rainy Sunday afternoons when there is nothing else I want to do but put up my feet and just cill...I can’t fathom that I will dislike such a time honored film.


89 posted on 05/04/2014 4:16:22 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Tax-chick

By the 1970s, it was a long drive to a movie.


Other places to get airconditioning dispersed the audience...even available at homes by then.


175 posted on 05/08/2014 4:10:54 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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