my running buddy in junior high days was named gerald scalf,we both had brothers the same age who also ran together some,gerald was a year older than me,he was wiry,i was chunky and just started thinning out at the time.
our brothers had a friend named raymond carroll,our brothers and him got into trouble together,raymond worked at the local theater,the ritz,as a usher general flunky type.burt huddleston,a local policeman worked the theater as a security guy,everybody knew burt that went to the movies.i never kissed a girl at the ritz,but burt called me loverboy,apparently he mistook me for someone else he had seen making out with their girlfriend,and he would be obliged to tell them to cut it out,i never let on it was somebody else
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anyhow,gerald and i had been bugging raymond to sneak us into the theater on a saturday afternoon,he had never done this for us,not that he was suppose to,but he had done it for our brothers once,and we wanted to be like them,actually it was gerald doing the buggin' because i didn't know raymond that well.
the ritz was on the corner on the north side of the town square and it had a side door.raymond told us to go to it,he would let us in and we were to follow him behind the screen to the stage.well all went as planned and there we were behind the screen,raymond told us to wait there for him and he would be back.
man it was neat back there,older theater seating was back there from another era,old signs,what have you.we rumaged around and piddled for a while.well,when raymond hadn't returned for a while gerald decided we should climb this old stationary ladder made from framing material up to this cat walk made up of a couple of 1x10's or 2x10's i can't remember.
we did, but you had to kind of crawl on your knees once up there then you could stand up.it was neat standing up there looking through the screen at the people watching the movie and up into the balcony,it gave you a whole new perspective.
we we laughing,but kind of trying to be quiet,that's kind of hard ain't it?well,it wasn't laughing that sunk our ship,but the fact that the cat walk must have served as a helper in bracing the screen,apparently when we moved back there the whole screen quivered,i guess it was distracting to those trying to watch the movie.
we knew we were in trouble when the beam of burt huddleston's flashlight hit us and he said what you boys doing up there?we came down and told him a fish story about how we got back there,we didn't want raymond to get in trouble,he ran us out with a lecture and don't pull this crap again.
whew,another bind we got out of.we ran that town from one end to the other,we had some great times then,it was during the vietnam era,and we were just kids.
our brothers had a friend named raymond carroll,our brothers and him got into trouble together,raymond worked at the local theater,the ritz,as a usher general flunky type.burt huddleston,a local policeman worked the theater as a security guy,everybody knew burt that went to the movies.i never kissed a girl at the ritz,but burt called me loverboy,apparently he mistook me for someone else he had seen making out with their girlfriend,and he would be obliged to tell them to cut it out,i never let on it was somebody else
.anyhow,gerald and i had been bugging raymond to sneak us into the theater on a saturday afternoon,he had never done this for us,not that he was suppose to,but he had done it for our brothers once,and we wanted to be like them,actually it was gerald doing the buggin' because i didn't know raymond that well.
the ritz was on the corner on the north side of the town square and it had a side door.raymond told us to go to it,he would let us in and we were to follow him behind the screen to the stage.well all went as planned and there we were behind the screen,raymond told us to wait there for him and he would be back.
man it was neat back there,older theater seating was back there from another era,old signs,what have you.we rumaged around and piddled for a while.well,when raymond hadn't returned for a while gerald decided we should climb this old stationary ladder made from framing material up to this cat walk made up of a couple of 1x10's or 2x10's i can't remember.
we did, but you had to kind of crawl on your knees once up there then you could stand up.it was neat standing up there looking through the screen at the people watching the movie and up into the balcony,it gave you a whole new perspective.
we we laughing,but kind of trying to be quiet,that's kind of hard ain't it?well,it wasn't laughing that sunk our ship,but the fact that the cat walk must have served as a helper in bracing the screen,apparently when we moved back there the whole screen quivered,i guess it was distracting to those trying to watch the movie
.we knew we were in trouble when the beam of burt huddleston's flashlight hit us and he said what you boys doing up there?we came down and told him a fish story about how we got back there,we didn't want raymond to get in trouble,he ran us out with a lecture and don't pull this crap again.
whew,another bind we got out of.we ran that town from one end to the other,we had some great times then,it was during the vietnam era,and we were just kids.
Saved us a buck, I believe it was. Hey...........that was gas money for the ride home.
