Apart from me, is anybody here old enough to remember...

[PWC]

Mowed neighbors front and back yard, with a push reel mower and grass catcher. $1.00 each. $1 into piggy bank, $1 into my pocket. Ride my bike to the Riverside Theater in OK City. 15 cents to get in for double feature, cartoon, and at noon only, 2 serials. Could be Bulldog Drummomd, Dick Tracy or others. Remember one Sat, with a Hopalong Cassidy serial, Hoppy was chased into a box canyon...."How's Hoppy going to get out, come back next week for another exciting adventure."

Well, we did, and when Hoppy came on he was riding hell bent for leather across a plain. The movie voice said "After Hoppy escaped......." 65 years later and I never did find out how he got out of the box canyon.

Near 'bout killed me when I turned 12 and had to pay 25 cents.

[dogtag]

Yes the escape was always easier that it had seemed a week earlier.
I remember a scene where the Heroine was trapped in a room with
a heavily spiked ceiling slowly coming down.
She escaped - somehow.

[lyman]

stayed with the grandparents a couple summers when we were too small to stay home alone,

she lived 3 blocks from an old theater that had old horror movies or second or 3rd run movies,

usually 99 cents,


watched a lot of old funky sci fi, horror and stuff each summer,

grandmother watched whatever B&W movie was on in the mornings , depending on what needed to be done, if she had the time, so we did too,

she had her Stories on in the afternoon, so we vacated the house to either roam the neighborhood on the bikes, or to the movies,

[Art]

you can still watch a bunch of this Saturday morning at the movie's stuff on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday morning .

[blackhawknj]

in the 1950s the serials were often shown as segments of various kids TV programs. In 1966 following the success of the Batman TV programs Columbia rereleased its 1943 serial Batman in which the Caped Crusader is out to thwart the evil Dr. Daka, a Japanese agent.
William Boyd-Hopalong Cassidy-quickly realized the potential of TV, bought the rights to his films, and made a fortune and restablished himself as a star.

[PWC]

1955 or 1956 dad bought a Crosley B/W tv. He put the antenna on the roof and twisted the twinlead just so thru standoffs. The first tv picture I saw was Hoppalong Cassidy riding his horse Champion across the screen with a pic of Bond Bread superimposed on him.

"Bond bread....helps build strong bodies 8 ways (later, 12 ways). Look for it in the package with the red, yellow and blue baloons"

Bond later became Wonder Bread.

[Vern Humphrey]

The first TV I ever saw was in the display window of Muller's Department Store in Lake Charles, LA. That was around 1950. In '52 my parents got back together and we went to Houstin, Texas and there was a TV in our room. First program I ever saw was Captain Kangaroo.