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AllaN01Bear

(30,138 posts)
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:09 PM 22 hrs ago

done 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?

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done with sat morning cartoons for now .. now watching sat morning matenee stuff.: (Original Post) AllaN01Bear 22 hrs ago OP
Good morning, Bear. Did you enjoy the cartoons? niyad 21 hrs ago #1
yeppers. AllaN01Bear 21 hrs ago #2
Excellent!!! niyad 21 hrs ago #3
My husband went to matinees Marthe48 21 hrs ago #4
cool AllaN01Bear 21 hrs ago #5
As a kid, I used to watch Saturday morning TV LogDog75 20 hrs ago #6
cool AllaN01Bear 20 hrs ago #11
;-{)...... Goonch 20 hrs ago #7
My dad ran a movie theater when I was a kid in the 60s, my sister & I saw a lot of movies irisblue 20 hrs ago #8
musta been fun. AllaN01Bear 20 hrs ago #9
It was in many ways irisblue 20 hrs ago #10
I spent my mornings learning how to type. Unfortunately, like others, I forgot to check my writing Wonder Why 19 hrs ago #12
When I was in first grade 10 Turtle Day 3 hrs ago #13
howdi . here ya go AllaN01Bear 2 hrs ago #14
howdi AllaN01Bear 2 hrs ago #15

Marthe48

(23,771 posts)
4. My husband went to matinees
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:27 PM
21 hrs ago

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

LogDog75

(1,471 posts)
6. As a kid, I used to watch Saturday morning TV
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 02:18 PM
20 hrs ago

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.

irisblue

(38,160 posts)
8. My dad ran a movie theater when I was a kid in the 60s, my sister & I saw a lot of movies
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 02:20 PM
20 hrs ago

irisblue

(38,160 posts)
10. It was in many ways
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 02:36 PM
20 hrs ago

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.

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Did you have a particular type of Saturday afternoon movie you liked?

Wonder Why

(7,396 posts)
12. I spent my mornings learning how to type. Unfortunately, like others, I forgot to check my writing
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 04:00 PM
19 hrs ago

when I got older.

10 Turtle Day

(1,371 posts)
13. When I was in first grade
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 07:18 AM
3 hrs ago

My dad was a Marine and at that time we lived on the Cherry Point Marine Base in NC. There was a theater on base and on Saturday afternoons my two older siblings and I would go to matinee. I can still remember putting the dime in the entry turnstile and going through. Can’t say I had a favorite movie or genre. We watched whatever was playing. I’m sure our mom was happy to have us out of her hair for a couple of hours. I remember one horror film so scary I was stuffing my mittens in my mouth to stop from screaming. Something like the Beast with Five Fingers. Not sure if that’s correct. Probably really lame if I saw it again now!

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