Three thousand and counting!
July 10th, 2008 at 08:02pm Pat Cunningham
Drum roll, please.
Comment No. 1 on the post just below this one is the 3,000th we’ve received since the inception of this blog some six months ago.
This milestone submission came from a guy who calls himself Menlo Bob, a frequent contributor to Applesauce (if not always a keen observer of the political scene — he disagrees with me too often).
With our heartfelt thanks, Menlo Bob will receive a lifetime pass to the beautiful Midway Theater in downtown Rockford, where the current bill has William Lundigan (shown above at the height of his memorable television career) and Rhonda Fleming starring in “Serpent of the Nile,” an entertaining (albeit low-budget) retelling of the story of Antony and Cleopatra.
Congratulations, Bob, and enjoy the movies.
UPDATE: I’m told that the Midway Theater is no longer open and that the William Lundigan movie is out of print (or whatever it is that happens to movies nobody bothered to preserve).
Well, gosh, I guess that’s just tough luck for Menlo Bob. I hope his disappointment doesn’t deter him from passing along more of his insights here at Applesauce.
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1. Menlo Bob | July 11th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I’ve enjoyed many movies at the Midway and it is sad to see it and Rockford in the condition they are. Longtime residents remember a vastly better city. Remind me; Was the last event at the Midway that rap concert riot?
The community I currently reside in has one of those old movie theaters that has been restored to the glory of an earlier era. Lsst Saturday night it was filled to capacity to watch the 1953 movie classic Kiss me Kate which was based on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. In addition to such stars as Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson and Ann Miller, the movie featured two lovable gangster characters James Whitmore and your relative Keenan Wynn. No computer generated nonsense, nothing had to blow up and no foul language. It was like being transported to the sweetness of the Rockford of my youth. All that was missing was stopping by the Alps Drive-in afterwards.
2. Pat Cunningham | July 11th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Ah, sweet memories. We’re just like our parents and their parents and so on. We long for the hometowns of our early years. I grew up in Freeport, and I could cry when I visit there. The town of yore is gone.
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