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[Bud Brewster]

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All Sci-Fi member Rick Smith has posted several enjoyable stories about his "monsterkid memories" from seeing vintage sci-fi moves. I fold him he should publish a book, and I even created the cover for it!

Here's a yet another example of his anecdotal tales.

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The Alligator People (1959)



Actually, it does, Bud. I have seen that picture before, but not so well refurbished. Thanks.

Probably '54, yes. But by the time I started attending the place in late 1959, they were showing a mix of newish and oldish pics. For example, I saw GORGO there just a few weeks after it had opened first-run at the nicer, bigger theaters across the river in Louisville. But I saw HORROR OF DRACULA (1958) in 1961, QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE (1958) in 1962, and, sometime between 1960 and 1963, the LeRose even brought me THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) and PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1950).

Matter of fact, I saw RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 there during those years. So, yes, it's most likely 1954, but not a certainty.

You can see the kids lining up to the right side of the box office (all wearing hats for some reason), and that is the direction that the Saturday afternoon line always took. Oddly, since the line would be composed entirely of kids, there was always perfect order. No pushing, no jumping line. Except for the memorable day that THE KILLER SHREWS was playing. For some bizarre, unknown reason, the queue became a mob. Shoving, pushing, yelling. We were lucky no one was trampled to death.

Thankfully, I was there that Saturday with my friend Craig, who was a head taller than anybody else. So he took my money and his and pushed his way to the ticket window, no doubt injuring a few tykes along the way.

But the most interesting thing of all about that picture to me, is the cop standing at the far right. My father was a local policeman from about '52 to '72 and that just might be him. I can't tell. Sometimes I look at it and think, "nope, no way." Then I'll look again, and suddenly it looks like him. Guess I'll never know for sure.

Thanks for the memories.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)