My favorite was Lash LaRue........and yes to the ice cream in dixie cups. And the 'theatre' was a converted store with a screen hung on the wall and folding chairs! in the tiny burg of Bremen, Alabama. Sometimes, I want to go home again. Dorothy Rhodes > > From: Virginia Crilley <varcsix@hot.rr.com> > Date: 2005/06/20 Mon PM 04:48:37 EDT > To: GATAYLOR-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GATAYLOR-L] More picture show stories > > I just heard from Harris Hill who was remembering his "picture show" days > (not in Taylor Co) > > >My Granny would give us enough money to go to the matinee on Saturday at > >the Sky Chief theatre in Pensacola, FL. It was always a double feature > >western. Gene Autry, Hop-A-Long Cassidy, Roy Rogers or Lash LaRue with a > >Flash Gordon short in-between. " > > That reminded me that I loved Roy Rogers and my neighbor loved Gene Autry. > > Afterwards we would stop and buy a "dixie cup" of ice cream that you ate > with a little wooden spoon, and the lid was a movie star to collect. > Did they have that kind in Reynolds? > > Virginia Crilley > > > > ==== GATAYLOR Mailing List ==== > Searchable archives are here!! > Go to <http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl> > and follow the instructions. > >

Well, Virginia, we have something in common for sure! I, also, was raised in Pensacola and went to the Sky Chief and other theaters in Pensacola. Yes those were good ole days. Didn't have to worry about children getting kidnapped and such then. At least, I don't think my parents and grandparents worried about it much. I, too, was given money to go to the matinee on Saturday's. My sister, neighborhood friends and I would go on Saturdays and spend the whole day there. I remember the westerns and the Hardy Boys. My great grandmother Lula Alice Barefield Baxter who was born in Taylor County lived with us until her death in 1954. I don't remember much about her because I was just a young thing (age six). I do remember she was an invalid because of strokes. One of my main memories of her was when we had a fire in our home. We lived on the corner of Jackson and M Streets. She, my sister and I were put on a wooden trailer and taken across the street until the fire was out. It didn't burn the house down. The fire was contained to a couple of closets and around two connecting bedrooms. Probably, a electric outlet fire. I don't remember exactly. Janice Redmon Smith a Bar/efield descendant > From: Virginia Crilley > Date: 2005/06/20 Mon PM 04:48:37 EDT > To: GATAYLOR-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GATAYLOR-L] More picture show stories > > I just heard from Harris Hill who was remembering his "picture show" days > (not in Taylor Co) > > >My Granny would give us enough money to go to the matinee on Saturday at > >the Sky Chief theatre in Pensacola, FL. It was always a double feature > >western. Gene Autry, Hop-A-Long Cassidy, Roy Rogers or Lash LaRue with a > >Flash Gordon short in-between. " > > That reminded me that I loved Roy Rogers and my neighbor loved Gene Autry. > > Afterwards we would stop and buy a "dixie cup" of ice cream that you ate > with a little wooden spoon, and the lid was a movie star to collect. > Did they have that kind in Reynolds? > > Virginia Crilley > > > > ==== GATAYLOR Mailing List ==== > Searchable archives are here!! > Go to > and follow the instructions. > > ==== GATAYLOR Mailing List ==== Taylor County Historical-Genealogical Society Taylor County Historical-Genealogical Society $20 - 12 issues - 40 page bulletins monthly Mail dues to Jacquelyn P. DeLong P.O. 1925 Butler, GA 31006 http://www.rootsweb.com/~gatchgs/index.htm Index of past issues: --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour