Summer movies at The Lamb, July 1955

If we got tired of swimming, golf, playing baseball, hanging out with friends, roller skating at the White Pines, or meeting at the summer band concerts and needed a break from babysitting, mowing lawns, helping mom in the garden, detasseling corn, or working part time at one of the many small businesses . . . there was always The Lamb Theatre! Here's an advertisement, supplied by Lynne and Nancy, our busy historians, for Daddy Long Legs with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron, Blackboard Jungle (shocking! says Lynne) with Glenn Ford and Anne Francis, which helped boost "Rock around the clock" to #1, and of course, the Saturday kiddie show (my favorite) Riders of the Purple Sage (1931, based on Zane Grey novel) plus 4 cartoons. Ah, small towns in the 50s--we probably didn't appreciate the peace and quite then, but isn't if fun to misremember!

The Lamb Theater

This looks a bit murky and dim, but it's a spot we all recognize. I've been looking for my little sophomore diary in which I listed all the movies I'd seen--about one a week. But can't find it. Mrs. Bearman sold tickets. I think we paid $.50 after age 13, maybe $.10 before. There were a few double seats. Very popular. Popcorn was good. There were cowboy series, cartoon series, and maybe horror shows? I think this is Barb H.'s photo. Any memorable movies you remember? Didn't they give away junker cars one year? What was that called?