Our local theater, before it closed - Admission 15 cents Monday through Thursday for a "B" grade movie. Friday night, Saturday and Sunday 25 cents for the main feature movie of the week, 10 cents for a bag of popcorn and 5 cents for a Coke.

And I just remembered about the time I was in 5th grade they started allowing boys to wear Levi's (clean and neat ones) and a fad for leather Paratrooper Jump boots came along - I got a pair for Christmas.

And our 4th grade teacher found a group of us playing mumbly peg with our pocket knives, told us we were doing it wrong and then got down on her knees (in a dress no less) and showed us the right way, with her own pocket knife.

First day of hunting season two things happened - kids as young as 8 or 9 were going through town on bikes and in the back of pickups with rifles and shotguns headed down to the woods along the Ohio to hunt and the high school principal put a sign up telling students not to leave their guns in their cars and trucks. No fence and US 60 right next to the parking lot. We were to bring them to the main office and he locked them in the supply room with his gun. Pick it up by 3:15 or wait until the next school day because at 3:15 he locked the supply room and went hunting.

Next is a long story I have told before if you just want to skip it.

One year three idiots from Chicago decided to hold up the town bank at about 3:30 on the first day of hunting season. The clerk at the hardware store across the street saw what was happening. Between that one and the other hardware store around the corner there were about 15 hunters getting their licenses and ammo and on the other corner at the town gas station the Police Chief was gassing up his car. The clerk called the other hardware store and the gas station and told them what was going on. When he saw that instant posse headed for him the getaway driver started his car and took off just as his buddies were running out of the bank. One of the two who went in the bank dove head first through the car window and the third (with the bag of money) found himself surrounded by about 15 armed guys aged 8 to 80 and the Chief. He surrendered and the Chief left the youngest kid and the 80 year old to hold him and everyone else piled in his car and two pickup trucks and took off after the other two robbers. The Chief radioed the next town where their Chief, a Deputy Sheriff and a State Trooper were eating an early dinner in a truck stop. They yelled for some truckers to block the highway at the blind curve just out of town and by the time the robbers made it there it was Railroad embankment to farmers fence on the other side of the road with big rigs and 3 patrol cars. All three cops and several truck drivers who just happened to have guns in their trucks were in cover behind the vehicles and waiting. The robber's tried to do a U-turn, went into a ditch and got stuck, just then our chief and his posse came around the curve and the two guys got smarter fast enough to surrender. A couple of months later when I was visiting my Grandmother on special leave from Vietnam every guy I knew that I met told me the story of the "Great Bank Robbery". It provided something to talk about for a long time in a sleepy little farming town in Western Kentucky. I think most of them were disappointed the robbers gave up.