This video is part of 'Going to the Movies', an Oral History Project about neighborhood theaters and their communities. For more videos, memories, and history, visit goingtothemovies-dciff.org. 'Going to the Movies' is a project of DCIFF, The Washington DC International Film Festival, with generous support from the Humanities Council of Washington DC, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from the D.C. Preservation League. Music: "A Stranger's Map of Texas" by Michael Chapman & The Woodpiles (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Michael_Chapman__The_Woodpiles/NATCH_7/03_A_Strangers_Map_of_Texas)
“One of our favorite things of course was popcorn. And not for the popcorn, but we’d flatten the box and at the appropriate moment toss it and hit somebody else in the head with it. And that was the first frisbee.”