Blog 2.0

The State Theater provided motion pictures all ages enjoyed..seven days a week. On certain Saturday's, kids would be admitted for six pepsi-cola tops to see chapter-series flicks,like Flash Gordon or some Western. This was called Matinee Saturday's, and you held on to your ticket to see if it matched the Grand-Prizes number(bicycle-wagons..)

As we matured, that was a place to take a date or just meet friends, and have fun. Someone seated at the rear of the theater seemed to always let a empty glass soda bottle roll several rows toward the front stage. A lot of giggling and HA!HA's! followed until someone stopped the roll or the seat leg.

This is what I remember......What are your memories of the State Theater.....anyone with pictures to include,please do.

I have searched, with no success, to find photos of the State Theater.

Chuck, you've got me hungry! PaPa Dad's for the main "Q" and East Texas Bar-B-Que (or was it East Texas Hot Links?) behind the State Theater for link baskets! And the Woosie sodas -- I had forgotten those! Didn't forget K-Orange and Grape, though!

Chuck, you may want to start that State Theater discussion somebody suggested you start. Who among us DIDN'T go to movies at the State??? And guess what else? ... in a talk with Bob Lane I learned that it seems the State was owned by a Black family whose daughters attended St. Peter's. I'm sure we would explore that and much more in State Theater memories in that discussion.

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Gosh y'all, for all the compliments, all I can say is ....

The words above were written by the person who sent the email with the Jet Magazine link to me. My thoughts are the same as hers so I'll only add this:

When we received our weekly Jet Magazine it was passed around until it was pretty much falling apart. The magazine was at that time the only way we found out what was going on in the black comunity. In it we could find out what people of color (Negroes back then) would be on TV/radio that week among other things

After browsing through the first Jet I found myself thinking, "Oh my God, how far we have come". And then reminding myself that the same discrimination that Josephine Baker endured, and that black men and women are imprisoned for on trumped up charges (drugs found in back seat of police car), continues to exist in 2010 in America and elsewhere in the world.

My consolation is in knowing that God already knew that things were going to happen.

Tell me what you think, how you feel, Bulldogs.....