MY FIRST "ART" MOVIES....... Oh, to live in Sugar Plum Fairy Land!

In the 50's, i could hardly wait for the latest MGM all-dancing-all-singing movie to open at the Lyric in lovely downtown Huntsville.....i would leave the Lyric, dancing on the broken sidewalks all the way to the Grand News Stand, where I could view pics of film artists dancing and singing as other boys stood around jockeying for position to review the latest comix, Mad magazine, and Tales from the Crypt......then...off to the Twickingham or Rexall for vintage scenerios, sodas, cherry cokes or malts, walls of boxed chocolates and fan magazines for Tab Hunter and Annette Funicello....I wanted Life to emulate ART......I still do!