There is no homework today, but there will be a quiz at the end of this thread.

I shrugged when I saw the title……….. but took a peek anyway. A lot of the “back in the day” threads are about the 70’s & 80’s when I was totally immersed with a family and career and fumbling my way through life. I was hard pressed to add to pop trivia as it was..... well, trivial at the time.

This time you opened the book to MY time of filling up that space to “know what everything is about”. And I’m going to take this opportunity to bore the shit out of you with it.

Any knowledge beyond your family came from school, your neighborhood, early TV (not akin to todays) and the MOVIES. Admission for a kid 12 and under was a dime. A box of popcorn cost 10 cents too, but they ripped you off by charging 6 cents for a candy bar that you knew you could purchase down the street for only a nickel. So two quarters could fill the empty weekend of an empty head. I saw a lot of movies.

They also had Wednesday “BANK NIGHT” or “DISH NIGHT” when they gave prizes to fill the place during the week. At intermission, they rolled out a tumbler full of cards that a kid would draw from. If you were there when the doors opened, you could sing-up to be that kid and they gave you two passes for doing it. Now my movies were free, …..and that was important as I just passed into the JUNIOR age group and the price jumped to $.15. (Didn’t know what I’d do when I became 16 and had to pay the full ADULT fare of $.25)

You also need to know that a day at the movies was NOT 30 minutes of previews and a 90 minute movie on a 12 ft. screen for $8.50. Your quarter got you 10 minutes of previews for the next weeks showings. The always double-header package of two movies changed on Sunday and Thursdays. You would see a 10 minute NEWS reel from around the world, a short subject of comic of general interest, the next chapter of the Red Rider or Rocket-man serial, a Three Stooges or alike segment and at least 2 cartoons. All this in a minimum 500 seat theater with a 30 foot screen and the giant velvet curtain. (That’s why the old fuck sitting behind you was grumbling about the price last night)

The movies was where I first saw the top HALF of a bulging bosom and a skirt raised above the stocking, clear to the garters, but “PantyFanatic” wanted more.

I SAW A LOT OF OLD MOVIES!

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