MOVIES

On Saturdays the kids on my street (West Fifth St.) would gather together and head either to the Strand Theater on East Broadway or the Broadway Theater on West Broadway. There would always be 2 movies mostly Westerns, a cartoon, RKO News ( about the progress of the war) , a short by Pete Smith and the Action Series where every week the hero faced certain death(he miraculously survived the following week). The part I remember is that it was audience participation. We cheered, stomped our feet and yelled at the top of our lungs whenever the Cowboys killed the Indians. Not politically correct these days. We also booed when the hero kissed the girl (we were only 8 after all). When we got up to leave our feet would be stuck to the floor from all of the soft drinks deposited there