Paula Carl (Cowee Miller)

On my first date with the guy who would become my husband in 2006, he turned to me and said "I love Chic flicks"!  You could have knocked me over with a feather. I cannot tell you how many chic flicks we watched during our 18 years together but several of our favorites were Somewhere in Time,an Affair to Remember, and Return to Me. Sweet memories. Sweet stories with happy endings. 

John Landess

Love Story rated a 6.5 on the Tomato-meter Fresh score.

Critics Consensus

Earnest and determined to make audiences swoon, Love Story is an unabashed tearjerker that will capture hearts when it isn't inducing eye rolls.

I recently reread an old book (1970) 'Time and Again' by Jack Finney. It is a time traveler story based in the 1880s in New York. It is very good and would have made a great movie. 

My favorite movie is a John Wayne!! The Quiet Man and is not a western. American Graffti is one that brings back some 1962 high school memories!!! I would have been the nerd on the scooter if I had had any money!!

Rex Booth

John L,

You might like the movie "The Time Machine" (1960) starring Rod Taylor & Yvette Mimieux. The Time Machine was based on the book written by H.G. Wells (1895). 

H.G. Wells also wrote "The First Men on the Moon (1901) and other works.

Rex Booth

Paula,

Affair to Remember was great with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.  "Rome Adventure" with Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette (1960). I can still hear the romantic Eye-talion song "Al Di La" that keeps it in the backroads by the rivers of my memory ever gentle on my miind.

John Landess

Any movie with Audrey Hepburn is great, but 'Roman Holiday' is super. It was deliberately shot in black and white as the director felt if in color, people would become absorbed with the features of the city and lose the story. 

I do love watching OLD movies!!

Rex Booth

On  this day August 25, 1944

Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation by the Free French Second Armored Division and the American Fourth Infantry, who were greeted by over 15 miles of “cheering, grateful, happy” Parisians!!

You will see several historic scenes not seen on news reels

Fred Miller

Anybody following the LLWS.  I am pulling for Phenix City, Al, the Southeast team, to go all the way.   By far, the best player on the team is Kinley Rasmus, a 12 year old girl.  She plays short stop and is a pitcher.  And can she hit the ball!!  Her whole family is involved in baseball.  Her uncle is the head coach.  Her dad, a former MLB pitcher is 3rd base coach.

Against Philadelphia, they were down 5-0 in the top of the 4th.  They put Kinley in to pitch.  Within 2 innings , the game was tied, with Alabama going on to win 6-5.

Rex Booth

Ah hes bin followin' da "Bama" team as well, watching Canada and Japan with interest. The final Championship game is this Sunday August 30 at 1pm (MST) on ABC & ESPN. 

"Buy you some peanuts and cracker jacks..."

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

I Love all the Movies others have mentioned! 

My Favorite Movie  is the "The Sting" with Robert Redford 
and Paul Newman!!
  

Fred Miller

Alabama was a different team last night.  Too many mistakes.  Not sure who I am going to root for now.  

Kinley tied or set several new records, a lot of which had been set by Mo'Ne Davis in 2014.

Paula Carl (Cowee Miller)

Rex, the film on the liberation of Paris was very interesting. Thanks for posting. 
Sherry, I love The Sting also. It's well done and I love the actors/actresses. 

John Landess

Anyone watch the 'Savannah' Bananas play??? They make baseball fun to watch again!!

I attempted to post their logo but ???????

How to Post "Images"

1. Image or picture must first, be downloaded and the file saved to  the 'Picture Folder"on one's laptop, desktop, or moble device.

Fred Miller

John L, I watch the Bananas or any of those related team's games every chance I get.  There are 8 teams now in the Banana league.  Every game since mid 2016 has been sold out.  They have their own YouTube channel.  

To get tickets, you have to enter and win a lottery drawing.  Some people I know have been trying for month to get tickets.  And the tickets are not cheap.

They are definitely fun to watch.

Rex Booth

Today, watched Henderson, Nevada win the U.S. LLBWS Championship 12 - 2 over Ohio.  A Huge WOW!!  Who will be the World's Champs tomorrow… Nevada or Curacao?

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

NEVADA~~~~

Fred Miller

I figured out why Alabama lost to Ohio.  In all the games leading to the game they lost, Kinley was chewing on a big wad of bubble gum.  But in the Ohio game, she didn't chew any gum at all.  And they lost!!

Go Nevada!!!!

Supersitious? Switch from dubble-bubble to Copenhagen or Skoal 

~ The Shadow

But, Mr. Shadow, she is only 12 years old, much too young to be using chewin' terbacky!!

~ The Fred

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

Well I was Wrong, But Curacao did a GOOD JOB!

Rex Booth

Sherry,

I was rootin' for Nevada also, but those Curacao pitchers and batters stole the whole show!

On the subject of "Shows"...

"Coyote vs Acme" is now playing in Roswell.  Yay!!

It is on at your Local Theatres!

Coyote vs. Acme PG  1h 43m

Debuted with an estimated $15.5 million in ticket sales over the weekend!

Showtimes in Roswell

Today, Aug 31  Tue, Sep 1  Wed, Sep 2

Apex Cinema 10

900 West Hobbs Street, Roswell, NM 88203

1:00pm  4:00pm  6:50pm

Galaxy 8 - Allen Theatres

4501 North Main, Roswell, NM 88201

1:30pm  4:05pm  6:30pm  9:00pm

Don't forget to bring your own Butter Finger, Baby Ruth, or ole Henry!!

John Landess

Don't you wish the Starlight Twin or Bal-O-Jak was still open!!

BTW, what was the first movie shown at the Starlight and who was the big star??

Paula Carl (Cowee Miller)

John Landess, I agree about the drive-in theatres, because the Carl family went often. We always fixed Kool-Aid and popcorn and it was so much fun. The last time I went to the drive-in was in Bellaire, TX. where we watched John Wayne in the Green Berets. That was in late 1970 but Unfortunately we left early because the baby threw up on her daddy!  Oh me. 

Rex Booth

I do miss going to the drive-in movies, especially at the Starlite.  If you got there early, it was a lot of fun watching a car’s spot light chase each other around the screen before the movie began!  Buck a night for a car load otherwise a couple of buddies... packed into the trunk! The Starlite drive-in stopped operating in 1983.

During this same time, I subscribed the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle while living in Santa Cruz, Ca. There was a pink section in the SF Chronicle which listed news regarding plays, theatres, and movie reviews.  

One such humorous review I followed was “Joe Bob Briggs at the Drive-in Movies”.  Joe Bob wrote “satirical” reviews and rated "B" movies like kung fu, horror, Texas Chain Saw and the ilk.  At the end of each review Joe Bob would list the scenes:  3-kung fu, 2-heads roll, 5-broken knuckles, etc.  

Joe Bob had a way with words to match his southern drawl. Joe Bob would give an  update on his girlfriend "Wanda Bodine", a hairdresser living and working in a trailer park in Mesquite, Texas. Wanda’s big dream was to save enough money to visit Paris, France. Unfortunately could not afford gas money to Paris, Texas... One did not have to be a redneck to pickup on the dry  humor.  

Joe Bob resigned from the Dallas Times in 1985 due to censorship court case which he won, but he continued on with the SF Chronicle until 1997.  Joe Bob Briggs helped keep the public aware when drive-in movies were up for sale or closed. At the beginning of a review was “Drive In Movie ALERT”!! Job Bob would list a drive-in which was closed or closing in the USA. Most drive in movies in large cities were being purchased for the land to build muti-unit apartment buildings, office buildings, and townhomes. Roswell is the exception. The land where the Starlite used to be, is now dusty and barren, where tumble weeds now occupy the area where hundred of speaker stands once stood.

Like Dylan said, “The times, they are a-changin“.

Current Drive-in Movies

Fort Union Drive-in
3300 7th Street
Las Vegas, NM 87701

Tascosa Drive-in in Amarillo
1999 Dumas Highway
Amarillo, TX 79107

https://amarillodrivein.com/

OK, John L, so what was the first movie shown at the Starlite...?

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

I wasn't sure I should  share this but here goes.
Our Family was like Paula's we would pack up the car
and take snacks to the Starlight! I liked the pre movie
entertainment! One night I heard a voice I had heard
on the radio! it was Nat King Cole. I looked up at the
screen, I said to my Mother "He's Black"??
I had never seen him before and was really surprised! 
 

Fred Miller

My family did not do the drive ins very often.  The reason being, Pearson Auditorium at NMMI had a large movie screen.  And on Friday and Saturday nights, they would show first run movie that had just come out.  They were free to faculty and their families.  My Dad being head of the Math Dept., that is where we went to see the movies and eat the popcorn.

It wasn't until I started driving that I started playing the game of sneaking buddies into the drive in movies.  That was half the fun of going to the drive in movies.

Has anybody ever tried to estimate how many cars at a single drive in movie had extra people in the trunk of their car when they drove through the ticket window??

John Landess

 The First movie shown at the Starlite Drive In theater!

The Seven Little Foys    

A technicolor in VistaVision 1955 biographical musical comedy-drama film starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy. The story of Eddie Foy Sr. and the Seven Little Foys inspired a TV version in 1964 and a stage musical version, which premiered in 2007.

James Cagney plays George M. Cohan, recreating the role he played in Yankee Doodle Dandy. His dance duet with Hope as Foy is considered one of the film's best scenes.

(probably more info that anyone needs)

John Landess

Sherrie,

Old Nat sure could sing and his daughter also. I loved how she did duets with him, long after he was gone...

AND back on drive-in movies, sometimes when we went as a family, my dad would stop somewhere where you could buy 10 hamburgers for a dollar. They were small, like a kids burger today... And speaking of sneaking in, one night, three of us were in the trunk smoking Swisher Sweets. Well, it took longer to get in than we planned and were were about out of breathing air!!! WOW

And?? do I remember a posting that Tommy Weathers bought on of the old theater sites???