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It’s A Wonderful Life brought a wonderful message

on December 5, 2011

Snow and Christmas decorations on a hot June morning. A scratchy Santa mask irritating his ...

1950s FRINGED SURREY. The author's wide, Betty Lueck, gets a ride.

Oklahoma! was OK—in Arizona—for dude ranch manager

on June 9, 2011

  Working at an Arizona dude ranch left me with some unusual memories, but the ...

1950s Illustration by Cliff Wirth

Fifties films took all the courage a kid could muster

on June 1, 2011

Any kid who went to a Saturday matinee during the 1950s remembers the aliens and ...

1930s HOME ON THE LANE. Champion bowler Andy Varipapa (above in Hollywood) also coached daughter Lorraine (below).

My dad really bowled them over in Hollywood

on April 26, 2011

One of my most vivid memories of my father, Andy Varipapa, is the day he ...

1940s

Soldier became theater doorman after World War 2

on March 3, 2011

Lewis Corson was wearing a different sort of uniform when he got out of the ...

1950s

Autoscope drive-in movie had a screen for every car

on March 2, 2011

By Shirley Triplett, Pleasanton, California The Autoscope in Buffalo, Missouri opened August 1, 1954, the ...

1930s Three movie theater workers pose in their tuxedo uniforms in the 1940s.

Ushers multitasked at this theater

on February 5, 2011

By Bruce Coates, Phoenix, Arizona Ushers at the Fox Theater in Phoenix, Arizona in the ...

1940s Four movie theater workers pose together in the 1940s.

She worked at the movie theater

on February 5, 2011

“I was an usher at the Elks Theater in Prescott, Arizona in the early ’40s,” ...

1930s A dancer poses in an advertisement for a dance school in the 1930s.

Dance school advertised at theater

on February 5, 2011

When Alean Charles was 18, in 1937, she opened a dancing school. To promote her ...