I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by Julie Campbell on January 7, 2012 at 12:20pm

...when television turned off for the night.  One of the channels used to finish with a "video" of a jet flying through the clouds while the voice-over read the poem High Flight.  The memory still gives me chills. 

Comment by Tom McMurray on November 30, 2011 at 8:32am

Drive in theaters? I too remember going with my parents.  BUT I also remember taking my baby sister with me on dates to the drive in. Never would she fall asleep :(     And then a few years later I was taking my kids to the same drive in :)  There are a few left around the country and some still do a booming business. Not far from me is the Movie Manor Motel (Monte Vista, Colorado) where you can sit in your car and watch a movie or, if the back seat isn't big enough for you and your date, you can get a room for the night and still watch the movie.

Comment by wiffledust on November 30, 2011 at 12:36am

they were architecturally gorgeous...at least near my house, they were. i remember seeing all the great movies in there. there is no way to describe an experience like "the sound of music" in a theater like that compared to today. maria on those hills was magical in those theaters!

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on November 30, 2011 at 12:08am

I loved those big single theaters!!  We saw all the Disney cartoons, The Ten Commandments, and The Sound of Music in those kind of theaters!!  I remember when they played movies at Radio City Music Hall!!  I went there many times as a child with my family and a classtrip or two!  They use to have a Christmas show and an Easter show!!

Comment by wiffledust on November 29, 2011 at 10:27pm

ha! that's a great memory, rita! i didn't go to them too often. a few times enough that i remember what they were like. but i remember seeing them on the side of the roads more than anything else. they were so huge! but i do remember when a movie theater was an actual theater. i miss those real theaters with the big screens, the ornate insides, the bigger chairs. i hate these new theaters with the bleacher seats or the screen at your nose. i hate being shoved in the lap of the person next to me. ...but i think seeing a great movie on a real screen in a real theater is magical. i was so sad to see our beautiful old theaters go. ...oh now you have me in the mood for a hot dog and popcorn!

Comment by wiffledust on November 26, 2011 at 9:09am

i love dick van dyke. it holds the test of time so beautifully. funny is funny. and mary tyler moore was a great show too. i wish i got that on some station. as for batman and robin, i was a big fan of that as a kid. WHAM! BOP! BAM! LOL! ...diagraming sentences was a bit of a waste of time, don't you think? i think it's important to know how a sentence is constructed. i've done this with ESL students. but the elaborate diagrams were a bit over the top! :-)

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on November 26, 2011 at 8:45am

We have a new tv station up here called "ME TV" and it is totally old tv shows from our past. Like, Rifleman, Dick VanDyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Twilight Zone, Bananza, Big Valley, and many others with my all time favorite "M*A*S*H"...The other tv stations are taking notice of this because they are losing shares in audience viewers. One of my young grandsons absolutely loves Batman and Robin..LOL!

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on November 26, 2011 at 2:37am

I loved Captain Kangaroo--one of my favorites as a child!!  I still like to diagram sentences with my daughter!!! :-)

Comment by Betty Prewitt Pollard on November 25, 2011 at 11:43pm

I remember diagraming complex sentences in English class and how much fun it really was.  I remember, marshmellow roast, looking forward to walking to the Christmas Parade with our neighbors and their son who was a year older than me even if it snowed or was freezing.  I remember how much fun those simple things were.

Comment by Betty Prewitt Pollard on November 25, 2011 at 11:26pm

I'm old enough to remember when the Golden Arches were still in heaven and Old MacDonald had a farm.  When abortion was an unborn term.  I have an old Captain Kangaroo Cup! 

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