The Best Time in Anderson or In Your Life

[Ma and Pa]

Forum friends--(re tonight's two earlier postings): Ma was playing with the computer; I don't know what she was doing. Pretty sure she doesn't know either.

Gardengirl: Kay M must have been another beautiful "Buccaneer"; Ma was Kay W.   O'Kay? Wise@$$ Pa

[Anne]

Is lard that thick, white crap in the can?  Yikes; how can anyone put that in their body?  For cooking, I primarily use EVOO and I use peanut oil in my deep fryer.  I'll be trying something new soon, though...Kroger has geese on sale for $.99 lb. so I picked one up last night.  Having never cooked a goose before, I've been reading about it and pretty much everyone agrees that when you cook the bird you want to save the fat.  Apparently, potatoes roasted or fried in goose fat are the best!  We shall see...

The lard we hd when we were kids came in a cardboard container, kind of like Chinese food comes in only bigger. The white stuff in a can was Crisco and was different from lard. It was smoother and not as dense.

[Mr442]

Emge used to sell larger amounts of lard in cans, about a gallon or two IIRC.

[Ma and Pa]

Round, 5 gallon cans show up occasionally at flea markets. Would make nice waste baskets or totes, or....   Pa

[Palehorse]

Lard is lard; the semitrailers of our circulatory systems, responsible for our high incident of heart attack, obesity, etc. 

I hate that stuff and would never intentionally ingest it.

[Gardengirl]

PA!

I don't see a Kay W in my yearbook. Was there another name before the Kay? Like my middle name is Kay too, but I don't go by that. Help.

[Ma and Pa]

PA!

I don't see a Kay W in my yearbook. Was there another name before the Kay? Like my middle name is Kay too, but I don't go by that. Help.

[Da Wham]

Don't remember that but I do remember the wonderful smell coming from the Holsom bakery on Meridian.  I lived across the street from it for a little over a year.  Both it and the house I lived in are gone now.

Oh man! Used to go over there after church on Sunday and get loaves fresh from the oven and go home and smear 'em with butter. Yum!

[me]

Oh man! Used to go over there after church on Sunday and get loaves fresh from the oven and go home and smear 'em with butter. Yum!

Yep, nothin' like it....

[Gardengirl]

Pa and Ma,

Sent you guys a private message, then got yours, but it didn't mention mine, so I resent one. Did you get it?

[Ma and Pa]

    Do any of you guys have any "special" memories of the old North and/or South Drive-In Theaters? Had my first "real" job there(the North),  summer of '65; made a whoppin' 60 cents an hour. Depending on the night, I either worked the gate (buddies got in free!) or in the snack bar. My best "work buddy" was a lanky nutcase named Jim Rebhorn (MHHS '66); he later made out pretty well in California- he's a very highly regarded character actor with an  impressive list of appearances in major pictures. Google him, if you're interested. I'm glad he worked there, we had a LOT of fun, and besides that, he made ME look sane! Maybe we even waited on some of you lust-crazed teens!  Pa

[Mr442]

I saw Clute, starring Jane Fonda at the North.  What a poor movie.

But at the South, things were better.  Billy Jack flicks, all the women in prison movies, and the last one I saw there, the Blues Brothers.

Man I miss those drive-ins.

[Gardengirl]

Pa,

We could watch the movies at the South Drive-In from my back porch! The thing is, we couldn't HEAR them. So, it was kinda funny to watch them. The screen was huge and we could see so well. We would sometimes even walk down there. One incident I know you won't believe, but it happened. I swear to God.

Once, my girlfriends and I met there, and we got our popcorn and went and sat on one of the long front benches right under the screen to watch some movie, I forget which. Behind us was a playground for little kids. There must have been 5-6 of us sitting on that bench, and we were well into the movie when all of a sudden the bench rose up and left our feet dangling! We looked behind us, no one there. We looked under the bench, still seated (much more able to move in those days) and there was no one there! We all jumped off the bench at the same moment and ran screaming toward the snack bar. We told someone there what had happened, and they checked out the area, but found no pranksters. Still don't understand what happened there that night unless the place was haunted.

My folks took us many times to the drive-in and we'd sit in the back seat, trying to see past their heads. Only one movie I remember seeing there-Splendor in the Grass. I don't remember ever going to the North. Where was it? But maybe I did because it seems I saw some beach movies elsewhere than the South.

[Ma and Pa]

Gardengirl: Regarding the mysterious floating bench, could it possibly have been caused by the unstable combination of estrogen and artificially psuedo ersatz flavor-enhanced popcorn butter? Just a thought.
The North Drive-In stood on the east side of Hwy. 9, between Prosperity Rd. (500N) and Moonsville Rd.
(600N). There was a go-kart operation out there for a few years, too.

Mr. 442: Oh yeah, that big screen musta really done justice to that long-running demo derby known as "The Blues Bros."! We used to have a Blues Bros. LP, pretty much the soundtrack to the movie. Good music, and a lotta laughs.

[me]

There is an auto auction where the North Drive-In used to be now.  We went to the North more than the South for some reason but went quite a few times during the summer.  I'd pop a huge bag of popcorn and we'd load the cooler with drinks and fix the back of the station wagon so the kids could lay down if they wanted.  They were almost always asleep by the time the second movie started.