Movies... The Old Days...

[Wyandot Jim]

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I always say that even though much of his rep is as the dashing leading man Cary Grant was just as wonderful and perhaps more so as a comedic performer. Got to love him as Walter or The Filthy Beast in Father Goose.

Don't forget "Houseboat"

 

[Armybrat]

Pretty cool Armybrat.
In 1951 we lived on Tinker AFB OK for a short time. Our quarters was across a large open field from the Base Movie. I went to see "The Thing" Walking no running no flying back thru that field at REAL DARK to get home and by myself was the worst I have been scared in my whole life. I was 7 at the time I still remember that damn movie

We saw that movie at the post theater in my picture above. I was about the same age but was with my two older brothers.
Of course we all were scared that night and kept Mom & Dad up until the wee hours.
Mom declared, “No more horror films!” 😄

 

[Hvymax]

What no mention of drive-ins and associated activities? Probably “saw” some of the worst movies ever made on Friday and Saturday nights.

You’d be amazed what you can get up to in the backseat of a Corvair.

I had a 63 Impala.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

I had a 63 Impala.

Jeepnik said:
What no mention of drive-ins and associated activities? Probably "saw" some of the worst movies ever made on Friday and Saturday nights.

You mean to tell me they actually showed movies.
In wintertime Ohio they gave you a heater with the speaker. Don't know if I ever needed the heater in my 53 Ford Victoria.

 

[Armybrat]

You mean to tell me they actually showed movies.
In wintertime Ohio they gave you a heater with the speaker. Don't know if I ever needed the heater in my 53 Ford Victoria.

Most of the time I took my parent’s ‘61 Impala sedan to the Austin drive-ins during my high school days.
Once in a while though only my brother’s VW Bug was available. Kinda cramped for extracurricular activities.
In college I foolishly bought a used 1960 MGA Roadster that was not conducive at all for drive-in movies.
The girls did like riding around in it with top down in the summertime though.

 

[tazbigdog]

I just got done watching Hatari! again. Cute, silly, and entertaining to kids like me. Interesting, smoking was so important to be included in the old movies. Especially John Wayne movies. There's two very young and very attractive young starlets in this movie, often shown with cigarettes in their hands. Cigarettes made 'em extra sexy. Doesn't matter to me, but just an observation.

I rewatching this in the movies. In fact, we stayed there and watched it twice. 👍🏻

 

[tazbigdog]

Speaking of movies and the experience, those days are gone. Used to love going to them, sitting down in comfortable seats, eating all that buttery popcorn (before they told us how bad it was for you). Saw tons of westerns, mostly John Wayne. Saw the Good, Bad, and Ugly when it was released. It was a hot summer and I was spending the week up in NYC with her. We saw that one twice.

Then it was VHS tapes, then DVD, and now streaming. I remember going to the Alamo in Texas, eating food and drinking beer. Great experience. COVID hit and killed the movie theater industry. 🥲

 

[Armybrat]

Up until the early 1980s we took our three boys to one of the last Austin drive-ins on the weekends to watch those corny c-list action flicks like “Jason and the Argonauts”.
The Wife would pop a huge bucket of buttered popcorn and mix a gallon of KoolAid.
We still had our plain 1973 Chevelle station wagon with rubber floor covering (no carpet), so a few little spills was no big deal.
She did take a roll of paper towels and a wet washcloth (in plastic bags) to keep everyone relatively non-sticky.

As the boys all started high school, they lost interest in those nostalgic family movie outings and started asking me for the car keys so they could take their girlfriends.
They each had their own car by the time they were juniors or seniors….. depending on if they had earned enough $$ to help pay for a car and maintain it. I paid the insurance though. Never had to give any of them an allowance.
The last one graduated in 1991 & was in college.

All three of them have mentioned those “good ol’ days” once in a while even recently. Their kids have never had that same family movie experience, but their dads provided them with other kinds of
“together” family entertainment.

 

[Jack Ryan]

When a movie or TV show starts that ONE LONG DRONING fill in noise that just changes the pitch of the hum with scene changes... click. Mostly on the Hall Mark channel, those new fire, police, FBI, NCIS leftist woke propaganda shows.

 

[wolfsong]

You mean to tell me they actually showed movies.
In wintertime Ohio they gave you a heater with the speaker. Don't know if I ever needed the heater in my 53 Ford Victoria.

Of course, it was the heater that caused the windows to fog up... 😎

 

[wolfsong]

Keep in mind that one man's troll is another man's ally.

 

[Highstandardguy]

We usually went to the Drive In because it was cheaper. Mom and Dad would make me promise I wouldn't cry if there wasn't a cartoon. I did talk Dad into taking me to see Rodan at the theater one Saturday afternoon. Mom wouldn't go. I had nightmares for weeks.

 

[KIR]

A carload of friends and I fell asleep at the drive-in during The Ten Commandments. Went with a gf to a movie theater and fell asleep again. I finally got to see the whole thing, on a small TV. Last time I went to a drive-in, was to watch Aliens 3, but it was so dark, I could barely see anything. Finally, about ten years later, bot the DVD from local library so I could watch it at home on my 27" TV. I adjusted the brightness.

 

[snipe10]

I remember a Friday night in '69, I took my girlfriend to the Balboa Drive-in, San Diego. It was Cat Ballou and Two in the Attic, double feature. We had a few beverages with us, and I watched the western while she rested on my shoulder and when Three in the Attic came on, I was tired from a long day at work, and fell asleep in her lap. When I woke up, the theater was dark and no one else in the place. We had both drank a little two much and both fell asleep. It was 4 am and past curfew and she was supposed to be back at her dorm before 12 and I at NAVSTA SD. There was a high green sheet metal wall that ran all around the place. It was about ten feet tall. When the movies ended and everyone else left, I guess they didn't care to wake us up, and just closed the gates. We made several slow drives around the lot before we noticed the one gate left slightly ajar. I jumped out, open the gate and we escaped. I slept in her 68 green Torino and she snuck back in the dorm thru a friends window. What fond memories.

Man I remember double features at the drive in, those were the day, and thank you for your service!

 

[caryc]

Old TV and movies both are favorites of mine. The older shows were better in many ways even beyond the language and content. Old humor have some of the best. Loving humor and mirth the way I do I will sometimes count to others that among my favorite old comic moves as:

Bringing Up Baby. I say it is a toss up who was my favorite character...Mr. Bone/David, Susan or Baby.
You Can't Take It With You.
Arsenic And Old Lace.
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Jerry Lewis running over Culpepper's hate was priceless.
And so many other more.

I always say that even though much of his rep is as the dashing leading man Cary Grant was just as wonderful and perhaps more so as a comedic performer. Got to love him as Walter or The Filthy Beast in Father Goose.

My parents named me after Cary Grant. Too bad I couldn't look like him.