December 9, 2014

The Dog Farm's Best In Show 2014 - Another Piece Of My Childhood Lost And Classic Horror Under The Stars

Interior of the old Dixie theater in Staunton VA - photo by Jack Coursey
The Dixie Theater in its heyday (Photo by Jack Coursey)
 
      I don't make my way to the theater as often as I once did.  Discs, downloads, streaming, and a decent home theater have rendered it largely unnecessary.  I still possess a lot of fond theater related memories, though, and I was lured out twice this year by old movies and nostalgia. 

    The first circumstance was bittersweet, as it involved one of my favorite old haunts being shut down for the final time.  Movies At Dog Farm Remembers...The Dixie Theater In Staunton, VA was an account of my last trip to one of the preeminent theaters of my youth to see a screening of Jaws (1975) on closing day.  I was surprised by how many vivid memories that trip called forth.

     The second trip to the theater was a much happier one.  I ventured out to a drive-in about an hour away for a special screening of Halloween (1978) and Night Of The Living Dead (1968)Diary Of A Movie Watching Madman - Pre'Ween Horror Under The Stars is an account of my first visit to a drive-in in over twenty-five years.

 Movies At Dog Farm Remembers...The Dixie Theater In Staunton, VA

 Diary Of A Movie Watching Madman - Pre'Ween Horror Under The Stars

     There's more to come next week when The Dog Farm's Best In Show 2014 continues.


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