For Cellpic Sunday, Johnbo showed us a wonderful old movie theater and relayed his memories of it. Here is a photo of another beloved old movie theater transformed into a performance and events halls in Sheridan, Wyoming, and below is the comment I left on Johnbo’s post:
A finely captured photo that roused great memories of back when movies and radios were the only entertainment offered media-wise. Our little far-less-grand theater in Murdo, South Dakora, showed the same movie twice a week on Saturday and Sunday. 25 cents a seat. White River, 23 miles away, charged 10 cents a seat and had movies on Wednesdays, as well. Draper, 7 miles away, a different same movie on Saturdays and Sundays, offering indulgent parents or teens over 16 who had their license and folks willing to lend a car the chance to see three different movies a week. Not often done, but the only entertainment offered other than church, ballgames and “Uing Main Street.” Sound familiar?
P.S. I never lived in Sheridan, Wyoming, but had three best college friends who lived there and a sister who married a guy from there and lived there for 30 years or more, so I’ve visited it often.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I was in Sheridan once, some 40 years ago. I confess to not noticing this beautiful building. I enjoy seeing the restorations and repurposing of these grand buildings with beautiful facades and marques.
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That entire town has done a wonderful job of restoration and keeping the Main Street authentic. The have wonderful large bronze sculptures–one or more on every block of Main Street. A beautiful town.
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gorgeous old theater. Going to movies was my first math lesson. I had a quarter. 14 cents to get in. A dime for popcorn, a penny leftover for bubble gum after the show. We had lots of time to be creative. I wrote my first chapter book at age ten. Its only 10 Pages…BUT SINGLE SPACED. Wouldn’t i have loved having you grow up w/ me in the same little town?
Ann O’Neal Garcia
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Ann, my long reply to you has vanished!!!! Among other things, I agreed that we would have made great playmates for each other. I had friends, but it wasn’t until after college that I found I met people who were more like me…shared my interests in first writing, certainly in travel, and eventually in art. And although we were friends before, I don’t think you and I realized our likenesses until after I went to Cannon Beach, where you had already been, and we started talking about writing…Well, and Gretchen! Ha.
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