Remember Saturday afternoon movies? .25 cents got you in and got you a box of popcorn!!
dreher
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Mom could get rid of my four year old brother and eight year old me for about four plus hours every Saturday afternoon for the princely sum of 2 quarters!! The previews, the news reels, the cartoons, the serials and one or two movies all for 15 cents!! The extra dime was for a box of popcorn.
Such a deal!! This was 1955. To give you an idea of the difference between then and now, sometimes Mom didn't always have two quarters to give us. Sometimes we had to walk by our grandmothers to get ticket money.
Every Saturday we would have an early lunch so Mom could throw us out the door for the more then half mile walk to the movie theater. This was her one break from us every week so it didn't matter if it was 10 below and snowing or raining hard, we were on our way to the theater!!😁
This was a big movie theater but every Saturday it was standing room only as every Mother in town threw their kids out of their houses for a much needed break!
I loved Saturday afternoons!!
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No movies for us . Growing up on a farm in the country meant no movies . Instead we were kicked outside to play and ride bikes. Just be home by supper time.
I remember in the early/mid 60's riding my bike uptown with my older brother almost every Saturday after all the Saturday cartoons were over. We would go to the local theater where there was usually a double feature with cartoons in between. The place was stuffed and there were usually drawings for various little prizes between the movies.
We usually had .75 cents each and that would cover a ticket, popcorn, a bottle of pop and even some penny candies.
On the way one we would stop at Harry's Sport Shop and look at the new Stingray bikes and other sporting equipment. The real draw was the Matchbox cars. We would save out nickels until we could buy one for .49 cents.
Saturdays were great and I know our folks were happy to be rid of us for most of the day….
I Would have loved to have the opinuty to go to the theater
I will say until I was 16 years old Maybe 5 or6 times I got to go
But 25 cents once a week got us a bottle of pop RC normally and a candy bar or Moon pie
We were just sent outside untill dark thirty with the other neighbor kids
My sweetheart and I went to the movies 52 years ago. Don't ask me what was showing on the big screen. grins. I think it was a dollar each and popcorn and drink maybe another dollar.
You could take 10.00 and fill the car, go to a movie and hit the burger joint, and have money left over.
Like pulsarnc, growing up on the farm, movies were a rare thing. My earliest memory of one had a newsreel showing a football game. I couldn't figure out what was wrong that a bunch of guys would start running, then all fall down. I was in a theater 3 or 4 times before I was in my mid teens and a buddy got a job as a projectionist. I would go hang out with him in the projection room on Sunday afternoons
Drive ins where a whole different story
My parents favorite cheap night out
In the summer we did go often
But never got to go to the conesson stand
Mom tok a jug of water and bag of chips a thermos of coffee
When I got my drivers (woo ho )
I spent a lot of friday and saturday nights at the local drive in along with a lot of friends
Funny now I could not even cortort my old worn out body even close to the Arobic workouts i got as a young fellow with the gals
It was Great To be young and man time waites on no one
The Drive in still there se to be edge of town almost country but now surrounded by houses amazing they are still open
Coke and a Slowpoke.
.50 cents in 1955? Comic books were like a dime? Figure if you bought them instead of going to the movies you would have one hell of a cashable retirement.
I remember back when I was a kid, RC (Royal Crown Cola) had a deal where you could get into the Saturday movies for six RC bottle caps. The guy at the local 7-11 would let us empty the bottle opener cap catcher (you remember those don't you?) and snag the RC caps.
Other times, my Mom would haul me and three or four of my friends down town to the local movie, she would drop us off and give me two dollars, that would cover the ticket and enough junk food to fill a horse and I always come home with fifty cents to a dollar change. Man, those were the days ………………
Hot dogs were a quarter and a maxed out Hamburger was fifty cents, candy and drinks ranged from five cents to a dime, bubble gum was just a penny.
When I was sixteen and driving, we would go to the drive-in movies and a cheese pizza was $1.50
I look back on it as the good old days. If mom was still alive she would laugh and say, we didn’t have day care back then.
Soda pop was 10 cents a bottle, 50 cents if you bought a carton. 0 deposit if you promised to bring the bottles back. Bring the bottles back was one of the 4 most unkept promises of all time.
Remember those days well. Rode the bus in from Glen Allen (Henrico County) for peanuts(can't remember $) but yes 25 cents for movie on Broad Street in Richmond down near the train station.—————————Ray