Wednesday, May 2, 2012

SATURDAYS BELONGED TO THE KIDS


Not everything during the Great Depression and WWII years were bad.

Kids had it made if they went to the movies.

Come Saturdays, they would be entertained by a full-length feature (more times than not, a shoot-em-up cowboy picture), a chapter or two of a serial, a cartoon, a comedy short subject and the latest newsreel.

Not bad for an admission of between nine and twenty-five cents.

VICTORY THEATRE
December 13, 1935

STATE THEATRE
December 13, 1935

CAPITOL THEATRE
July 23, 1936

STATE THEATRE
July 23, 1936
STATE THEATRE
November 20, 1936

VICTORY THEATRE
November 20, 1936

STATE THEATRE
June 4, 1937

VICTORY THEATRE
June 10, 1937

STATE THEATRE
August 6, 1937

STATE THEATRE
September 24, 1937
STATE THEATRE
March 20, 1939

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 21, 1942

STATE THEATRE
November 12, 1943

STATE THEATRE
September 26, 1946

VICTORY THEATRE
November 18, 1948

STATE THEATRE
May 6, 1949

CENTER THEATRE
November 9, 1956


CENTER THEATRE
August 22, 1958