The first movie I remember seeing was the Wizard of Oz on TV at home. I must have been about three or four years old, because we were still living in the house on Alden Avenue. My mom was watching it, so I watched it with her. I remember that the movie frightened me!
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| Here's a picture of me at the house on Alden Avenue. I must have been making my theater reservations the old fashioned way, by phone. On the right is the TV on which I watched the Wizard of Oz with my mother. Love the look of that now vintage TV (B.C., Before Color)! It's long gone, though. |
After we moved to the house on White Oak when I was four going on five, I remember going to the Ritz Theater on Patterson Street in downtown Valdosta (it's no longer there) with my mom and my new friend and her mom from across the street. I don't remember exactly which movie we saw, but it was either a Disney animated version of Cinderella or Snow White. At some point during the movie, I started begging my mom to take me home. I think I told her I was sick, but I was actually scared out of my wits because of some of the scenes in the movie! I don't remember now what it was. I guess I was just a scaredy-cat. A lot of things frightened me when I was a kid (dogs, the dark, and what lurked in the closet and under the bed...). When we left the theater, I remember being shocked that it was still daylight outside. It made me feel so disoriented, like I was somewhere else looking on. I also thought that we must be getting home really late and that my dad would be looking for us. I had lost all sense of time and space being in the darkened theater, so I thought it would be nighttime when we walked outside.
I went to the Ritz Theater many times as a kid and as a teenager until the Beverly Theater was built on Bemiss Road. Then I started going there, rarely going to the Ritz anymore. I don't go to the movie theater much anymore. I miss watching movies on the Big Screen!
Catherine
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