My uncle used to put grape kool-aid in the wine bottle so he wouldn't have to ante up when it was his turn to pay,hehehe!!
I grew up at the end of the 1940s and through the '50s. Most people in Winnipeg didn't have TV in their homes until 1955 or '56. There weren't a lot of great TV series back then. I watched "Science Fiction Theatre", "Hopalong Cassidy", "The Lone Ranger", "Sergeant Preston of The Yukon", "Tales of Adventure", "The Last of The Mohicans", "Hudson's Bay", but mainly, what was good was all the old films from the 1920s through 1940s [[on CBC, not broken by commercials).
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There was no Tang, Hi-C, or Kool Aid when I was a kid. We had real juice. We didn't even have plastic back then. All our toys were wood and/or metal. No air conditioning in people's houses back then. Not even in offices or department stores. The only place you could go for relief in summer was a movie theatre. You could stay there all day for a quarter if you were under 12. We had a lot more fresh food and drinks back then. My grandparents always had a giant backyard with a little farm [[big vegetable garden and fruit trees). We had lots of fresh fruit juice in late spring, summer, and early fall. We ate almost no packaged food.
Right on robb, you were a kid during the classic days,i'm a bit younger[50's-60's]but i too could get into the movies for a quarter and stay all day..one cartoon and two movies and alot of fun.
I remember going downtown with my sister and brother. A quarter each for us to ride the bus for seven or eight miles and if I recall correctly, it was .75 for tickets to the cinema four double or triple features. It was always typical grindhouse fare: Hammer horror films, blaxploitation, biker movies, Godzilla flicks and b-movies of all make. One day we saw a movie called "The Gruesome Twosome" that no 8, 10 and 12 year olds should ever see. Scenes of people cut open with chain saws, bloody scalps on those foam heads you find in beauty shops, a guy eating someone's liver and straight pins being stuck in someone's eyeball are all indelible memories. We went home and Mom made sloppy Joes that night. I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep. I still wonder why the person at the ticket booth thought it was appropriate to let us in to see that.
They let you in because your money was green[hehe]remember as kids we would hang with our gang and think that it would never get better.
In 1964, I saw this movie at the now long gone Rivoli Theater in Downtown Toledo. It gave me nightmares for weeks afterwards it seems:
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As a kid in the early to mid 60s we go to the movies in the early afternoon on like a Saturday and stay for hours until my parents finished shopping or whatever they were doing LOL! We generally saw movies like Godzilla eating some city, Elvis in Hawaii or having a "clam bake", Frankie and Annette or some generic horror film. They showed cartoons between the films. Many times we would see the same movie twice in one day. I don't remember the cost but it was definitely under a dollar for kids our age [[5-12 yrs.).
I remember going downtown with my sister and two cousins to see "Let's Do It Again" in a double feature. I don't even remember the second flick. We decided to stick around and watch the main feature a second time [[which you could do back in those days; now, they kick you out) and although we laughed the first time in a half-full theater, the movie seemed to be much funnier with a full house. It's my favorite movie to this day.
There was an old porn theater in my neighborhood that somebody bought and fixed up a little. They showed blaxploitation and kung fu movies. One of the very best times of my life was when, in 7th and 8th grade, me and my buddies would drop a dollar and go see something new every Friday night. We saw the best kung fu movies [[which were also the worst kung fu movies, by the way). We saw Pam Grier's boobies on a large screen. We saw all sorts of everything and it was better because I was with my dudes having a great time.
I'll never forget the time when they finally got a copy of Bruce Lee's "Return of the Dragon" [[aka "Way of the Dragon") after advertising it to be coming "next week" for half a year. We all showed up, excited but found that they raised the price that night from $2 to $5 and none of us could afford to go in. We saw older cats dressed up in their best gear walking in with their dates like they were going to the Playa's Ball. I was so pissed off. Sometime in the summer before 9th grade, the city shut down the theater, having found rats and other creepy things crawling around. We didn't see anything with the lights turned off.
I saw this as a kid and it scared the bejesus out of me when the movie started
they swung a skeleton over the audience suspended on a wire. One of those
William Castle inventions. Started my lifelong fascinations with haunted houses
and the paranormal.
Haaaaaaaaaaaa,hey jerry,i went into one of those old moldy movie palaces[hehe]in the late sixties and when something ran across my foot i thought it was a puppy til i looked down...it was no puppy-agghhhhh!!!!!
Seeing William Castle movies in the theater was a real treat as a kid. It brings to mind
"The Tingler" where they wired the seats to give people a shock. Never saw that one
in the theater, only on TV.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...905-story.html
They even offered 'insurance' and some theaters had a hearse sitting in front of the
theater [[presumably to cart off the poor soul that croaked from fear). William Castle
was the master showman in a more innocent time.
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/art...ill-shock-you/
Man, I have been a Denise Nicholas fan since "Room 222". I think she and Karen Valentine were my first crushes when I was in the second or third grade.
And to tell you how much I love that flick, about 10 years ago, I saw it for the first time after 20 years and I recited every line as if I was reading the script.
Yes, Jerry....they did remake them and they were horrid. The originals have a charm
of a more innocent time. I own HOHH and 13 Ghosts by Wlliam Castle and pull them
out on occasion for some nostalgia. I believe in the original 13 Ghosts, they handed
out 3-D glasses. Fun stuff, indeed!
There are some really good [[and some really cheesy) 60s Horror movies on Youtube. Here is a very good one.....
Remember when we got that cute little puppy and we had to drag him down the street on his little lease,and one year later that big shaggy mutt was draging you?
We had a Samoyed puppy who grew to be quite large. I used to take him for runs in the snow. After he got big, when I took him for runs in the snow, and he'd see an animal to chase, and the hunting instinct took over, he was so strong, I couldn't keep up. He'd forget I had him on a leash. He'd sometimes drag me through the snow for a long way. Lucky those few times the snow was deep, and he didn't pull me into a hidden fallen tree. I might have been gored to death.
My last Rottie was about 10 lb. at birth! LOL! Not quite. He did reach 135 lbs. at
2 years. All muscle. We went through 12 weeks of confirmation training...which was
a godsend. Only a couple of times I got drug down the street...literally. Actually,
the sweetest dog I ever owned.
Today they are called-homeless,but back in the day they were-bums,winos.
Remember when there were not as many car crashes,and nobody wore seatbelts back then.
Yeah. One of my oldest memories is when my dad told me three times to sit down in the front seat. I was between him and my Mom in our '65 Impala [[that I wish I had right now). I stood up a fourth time just as he hit the brakes and discovered [[a) why you shouldn't stand up in the front seat between Mom and Dad, [[b) why seat belts are a godsend, and [[c) my lower lip was no competition for the dashboard of old Chevys.
My lip stayed busted back in those days and that one was a gusher. Suffice it to say, I never stood up in the front seat again.
Remember when there was a bench-style front seat in cars? You could make out in the front seat back in those days without being uncomfortable.
Remember in third grade,the homely girl in glasses who liked you,and by the time she got to the sixth grade she took off the glasses and you couldn't get near her because she was...hot?
This is the first car I remember as a very young boy. It's also the one that taught me that valuable lesson. I'm going to buy one some day.
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