Grampa Cooley would have us kids in the projector room with a grocery-sized bag full of popcorn. We watched Moby Dick starring Gregory Peck, and that 50’s sci-fi movie about the giant tarantulas. Our family watched The Ten Commandments starring Charltom Heston. Grampa Cooley also gave us stacks of movie posters, but of course no one told us to hang on to them because one day they would be very valuable; no, we used the back sides for drawing paper, cut them up and pasted them. Brother Cliff still has a few good ones. Dad had gotten one of those old velvet covered theater seats. I believe it was rather larger than those which came later. Even though I was about five years old, I do still recall the decorative interior of the theater and the drinking fountain.
Grampa Cooley would have us kids in the projector room with a grocery-sized bag full of popcorn. We watched Moby Dick starring Gregory Peck, and that 50’s sci-fi movie about the giant tarantulas. Our family watched The Ten Commandments starring Charltom Heston. Grampa Cooley also gave us stacks of movie posters, but of course no one told us to hang on to them because one day they would be very valuable; no, we used the back sides for drawing paper, cut them up and pasted them. Brother Cliff still has a few good ones. Dad had gotten one of those old velvet covered theater seats. I believe it was rather larger than those which came later. Even though I was about five years old, I do still recall the decorative interior of the theater and the drinking fountain.