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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumsdone with sat morning cartoons for now .. now watching sat morning matenee stuff.:
did u ever goto the movies when you were younger of a certain generatio? what was your fav?
niyad
(135,359 posts)AllaN01Bear
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(135,359 posts)Marthe48
(23,764 posts)He lived in a small town, and could walk to the theater, get in for a nickel. I don't think he had a favorite movie. After the movie, he and his friends would go look at the cars on display in the dealers' lots. My husband knew every car, from certain years, by remembering the details he noticed when he was a kid
AllaN01Bear
(30,135 posts)LogDog75
(1,471 posts)In the late 50s and early 60s, my dad was stationed at NAS Memphis and we got the TV stations from Memphis. On Saturday mornings, after watching cartoons we'd watch old Tarzan movies and Jungle Jim, both staring Johnny Weissmuller.
AllaN01Bear
(30,135 posts)Goonch
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irisblue
(38,159 posts)AllaN01Bear
(30,135 posts)irisblue
(38,159 posts)In the
early 60s he worked in a drive in, so there were a lot of nights Mom, me & my siblings were there to watch movies. He got promoted to mall movie theaters in the 70s.
This video clip was the music for General Cinema corporation; I still tap out the opening notes if I am waiting for something in public.
Did you have a particular type of Saturday afternoon movie you liked?
Wonder Why
(7,389 posts)when I got older.