Seeing the (Upper) USA in a Chevrolet
PUBLIC RELATIONS – CINEMA STYLE It was early in 1968. We were still running the Sound of Music in Cinema 2 and my father was called to the box office…
The Blue and the Pink
Drenched in Blue Our uniforms weren’t the only things blue. Part of the General Cinema identity, or “brand” as it’s called nowadays, were the shadow box screens in all their…
Grasshopper Assaults Builder of the Constitution – News @ 11
Home Is Where the Heart Is In Brockton, we lived in a second floor apartment on Spring Street. Its entrance was via a stairway at the back whose last flight…
I Left It at the Barber’s
Trekking to the Movies in Brockton My father’s new theater was the Cinema 1 and 2 in Brockton, Massachusetts. The building was in the parking lot of the Westgate Mall.…
Honors Are for Skipping
South of Boston I only spent one year in junior high. I’ll explain. We moved to Brockton Massachusetts the fall after I graduated from Saltonstall School in Salem. It had…
Strangler Redux
MORE OF THE STORY There was another reason that my mom and my gramma were upset after the woman was strangled down the street on September 8, 1963. A few…