Mary remembers quite a bit about the coming of movies. The town she was living in at the time had 2 small theatres. The movies they showed were mostly Westerns with John Wayne and Roy Rogers.
They were only open in the evenings with the exception of some Sundays when they would have a matinee showing. Mary said the movie theatre was a popular place for date night with your sweetheart. The drive-ins were also very popular.
Mary was not particularly as interested in Westerns as she was in musicals. She mentioned a couple of her favorite as The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland and, something that I will be watching in just a few hours from now, White Christmas with Bing Crosby.
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Her parents did not have many restrictions on what she could go watch because there weren't many inappropriate things, unlike today. The didn't even have ratings back then, either. Then again, Mary didn't exactly have an interest in seeing inappropriate things in the first place.
I asked my Aunt Mary if she watched videos or movies on line with Netflix or online streaming sites, and she said no, she did not really even need to. She uses Redbox from time to time, but she can get movies to watch over her U-verse from AT&T.
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