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Old Guy Nostalgia Stuff.
a year ago
A recent post by Comus got me remembering some really old stuff.
Back in the late 1950's and early 1960's (Yeah, I'm that old) the MacArthur Theater in Washington DC would run Saturday Morning matinees. I saw a lot of cartoons and B&W movies there, most I would see later on TV, when Saturday morning cartoons were still a thing. Some of those shorts are probably forgotten forever, certainly by me anyway.
There was usually an hour or so of cartoons, Disney shorts, Looney Toons, Fleischer Studio Popeyes, and then an old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movie or something similar, the movie was always black and white, I don't remember a single color movie there, just the cartoons were in color. Parents would drop their kids off in the morning and pick them up around noon or so when the matinee was over. Imagine that, parents just dropping off kids, most of whom were between 6 and 12 or so. There were usually some adults there, but for the most part it was kids, all glued to their seats because TV's were pretty small back then and seeing cartoons in color was a novelty and the screen of the Old MacArthur was huge.
Heck it wasn't until sometime in the 1970's that I noticed that 'The Wizard of Oz' was in color.
Just old guy rambling, beats yelling at clouds all day. Move along, nothing more to see here.
Back in the late 1950's and early 1960's (Yeah, I'm that old) the MacArthur Theater in Washington DC would run Saturday Morning matinees. I saw a lot of cartoons and B&W movies there, most I would see later on TV, when Saturday morning cartoons were still a thing. Some of those shorts are probably forgotten forever, certainly by me anyway.
There was usually an hour or so of cartoons, Disney shorts, Looney Toons, Fleischer Studio Popeyes, and then an old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movie or something similar, the movie was always black and white, I don't remember a single color movie there, just the cartoons were in color. Parents would drop their kids off in the morning and pick them up around noon or so when the matinee was over. Imagine that, parents just dropping off kids, most of whom were between 6 and 12 or so. There were usually some adults there, but for the most part it was kids, all glued to their seats because TV's were pretty small back then and seeing cartoons in color was a novelty and the screen of the Old MacArthur was huge.
Heck it wasn't until sometime in the 1970's that I noticed that 'The Wizard of Oz' was in color.
Just old guy rambling, beats yelling at clouds all day. Move along, nothing more to see here.
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You have a beautiful gallery, and I'm still finding treasures there... :)
I got to know your gallery thanks to Zakur.
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