Recalling those 'every Saturday morning' movies, movietone news, featurettes, cartoons, serials and live stage talent/costume shows that lasted for hours at The Lyric Theater, in downtown Huntsville.....for a penny and a half per hour (plus popcorn, candy and cokes/RC's/Double Colas/Dr. Peppers) boys, in jeans with rolled-up cuffs, and girls, in skirts & blouses, were 'babysat'....giving their parents some peace of mind until late afternoon........This Saturday Morning Activity was, largely, supplanted by the TV set...so that these boys could drive their parents mad with hours of loud 'kid's programming'.....Movies went 'Color', Cinemascope, Vistavision and 3-D....to divert youthful attention back to the 'big screens'.....and with 7-fold...or more... price increases....to contain these hyperactive kids in a walled room......Now.....for $35 a head, parents can, still, 'drop their kids off' for a few hours.......older kid, as hormonal changes dictated...spent more time 'hooking up' at Soda Shops, iniatiating their later weight gains....and, again, couch-potatoing in front of their 'boob tubes'....munching on candy bars and salty 'treats'....
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