It is no longer a small town. It has become a bedroom community for the DC area.
When I was growing up there it was a farming community, now it has become somewhat cosmopolitan ... when last I visited, I didn’t even recognize the place.
As for the theaters, they are not the same ones as those of my youth, however, we did, in truth, have three movie houses. Never gave it much thought, but I guess that was a large number for a small town, but our town catered to a very large farming community and was the largest town surrounded by a multitude of smaller communities.
We were the entertainment center for miles around (and the site of the county fair).
Your town was the “fun” place,I guess. County fairs and three movies sounds terrific..
I grew up in a Boston neighborhood but after marrying moved to a small city of 85,000....there are only 2 movies there now....the most was 4 in the 40 years I spent there and the population has remained stable.
That’s why your figure surprised me.
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