I remember going to three individual movie theaters. In fact, one of my worst "groundings" took place from an incident at the Sangaer. My parents dropped me off with a friend to see "LOVE ME TENDER". I know, it was NOT a classic but I was only 15/16 years old. Anyway, we went to the 7 o'clock show and liked it so much we stayed for the 9 o'clock one. That was well before the time of cell phones so my parents waited outside the movie a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg time. Needless to say, they were none too happy. They never would have found us in a theater full of screaming teenage girls. I also remember going to the Isis every Saturday morning for a dime to see Hopalong Cassidy movies. My older sister remembers seeing The Green Lantern. Always had a cartoon before the feature and a NEWS short. I was younger at that time. Sometimes we would go to the soda fountain at Woolworth on Saturday. We lived on Barcelona St. so would walk past the USO on Spring St. ( I can still see the wall of morning glories in my mind) and Delchamps on Garden St. BG's Grocery was on the corner of Government and Barcelona across the street from St. Josephs Church. My siblings and I were always looking for an excuse to go there for our penny candy purchases. They had big washtubs outside with "gophers" which were actually snapping turtles. My great grandmother made gopher gumbo -- I have no idea how she killed the critters, cleaned them and cooked them but the gumbo was delicious. Will have to ask my mom to see if she remembers. My sister reminded me of how amazed we were with the pneumatic tubes at Penny's where they sent papers to the second floor. We had unpenned chickens in our yard (1940s) and I DO remember how my greatgrandma killed them and was she ever proficient in her slinging style. We got the joy of plucking them. YUK. Margarine was white colored and had a little container of yellow coloring to be stirred into white. To the 1958 graduate of PHS, I was class of 58 Catholic High and my husband was class of 59. Did you cruise around the Stardust Drive In ( I think it was Stardust) to see who else was cruising, Did you go to B& B Restaurant on Palafox for dinner or to Felton's for a night of bowling and Lord help you if you ever went to the end of Palafox where Trader Jons was located. Bartel;s was another date place for dinner when anyone was craving fried chicken. Pensacola Dairy bar was the place to head for ANY ice cream concontion you could ever want. Our family did not eat out much. Had a specific time for dinner every night and knew when to come in from playing. Had the run of the neighborhood. Road bikes, skated, played hopscotch, jacks, pick up sticks, read books. Played dodgeball, kickball, red rover, mother may I. Well, Enough is enough. Take care all Marilyn

GNeolog You and I must be about the same age :-) I was raised in Tampa, and the Tampa Theater was the same style as the Saenger Theater (like being in a garden at night.) And we had a live organist. That's where I saw Gone w/ the Wind. I loved to watch my grandmother clean the chicken, such interesting innards. I squished the yellow ball in the margarine, counted ration stamps. I like to eat a Bill's grill on S. Palafox, great bread pudding.