by Angela Petteys My earliest movie memory isn’t of going to a movie theater, but of watching a movie at home. One night when I was about three years old, my mom and dad decided to rent a movie and order pizza for dinner and the movie they decided to rent was E.T. (1982). I…
by Kym Golden Gore I have two “first movie memories.” I was three years old when my parents went to the drive-in to see Grease (1978). They took my brother and me with them. We were dressed in our pajamas. We had a white Ford Pinto with blue interior, and my parents laid the seats…
by John Greco I first became aware of movies as a young kid watching “B” westerns on TV with my father on Saturday afternoons; Johnny Mack Brown westerns always come to mind when I think of this. There were plenty of other cowboy films in the 1950s; showing westerns was popular back then with TV…
by Melinda Massie I was honored when Brandie asked me to share my first movie-going experience. She knows my love for classic films. However, as I thought about it, I became a touch nervous as well, because I realized I wasn’t actually sure what my first memory was! Growing up, my family and I didn’t…
by Mary Libby Payne Growing up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I reveled in any air conditioning, and the only AC in our town was in the Paramount Theatre. I have a vague recollection of the first movie my sister talked about from those years in the 1930s when I was a preschooler. I was…
For the past year and a half, in my non-blogging life, I’ve been working as a ghostwriter, helping people compose and edit their memoirs. Listening to the stories of decades long past, learning about life in different cultures, hearing about those universal struggles that ultimately define us all … it adds up to an infinitely…
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