Enid, Oklahoma - June 1966
Here's a fun newspaper clipping from June 1966 sent to us by Jo Aguirre. The page shows old movie advertisments. One ad is for the Chief, located downtown on Independence. The cost of a nightly show was $1.50 for adults and .50 for kids.Another ad is for the Trail Drive-In and another for the Esquire located on Randolph on the Square. Walt Disney's Bambi was just being released and John Wayne was the king of the box office.
What I love most about this ad is the smaller ad at the top. It's an ad for Sandy's, one of the restaurants I most remember as a kid growing up in Enid. I remember the dancing girl logo on top of the sign out front. And who could pass up a quality hamburger for 15 cents?!








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3 Comments:
I remember when! It was such a treat to get to go to Sandy's back then. A time in life when mom's alwasy cooked a good home meal, out of 'real' food. Not many fast food places back then. And movies were almost afforadable.
In those days I was going to school at Emerson Jr High.For lunch you could grt a hamberger, fries, and a drink at Sandy's for well under a buck. A friend of mine lived in a house next door to Sandy's so we would go to his house , eat lunch, and watch lunch with ho ho on tv. Good times!
"Bambi" was relased in the 1940's, so this had to be one of the times it was re-released. "The Longest Day" was released in 1962. "Whataway to Go" was from 1964. The "Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" was in 1965....
Man, did Enid get ANY first run movies in 1966?
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