March 6, 2012 ~ Tuesday

Yesterday, Sunday, it rained most of the day so we just had a "lazy" day....in our pjs......watching TV and playing on our computers.  Wait....we do that every day until we venture outside.......

Today, Monday, decided to walk around  the "Old Town" part of Florence.  It was fun to check out the shops and to read the plaques about what was there, back in the day. "Back in the day" would have been in the late 50's.

Judy has decided this is her favorite place in town.  There is a second BJs going north, out of town, toward the RV park we are staying in and YES, she has checked it out too.  You know, just to be sure it's as good as the other one!

This cute coffee shop used to be a garage when I was growing up here.  The owner, Bill Karnowsky owned a small airplane and I had my first airplane ride in that plane.

The old theater would print up a flyer each month to show what they were showing each weekend.  My folks would drop my brother and I off to see a movie and then pick us up again when it was over.

One weekend, they mis-read the movie line-up and my brother and I found ourselves sitting through PSYCHO!!  I can't even tell you HOW OLD I WAS before I would shower if I was in the house alone.  Talk about traumatizing!  (Remember, back in the day, you didn't see violence like you do now.  It was cutting edge for Hollywood to make a movie with this kind of violence in it!)

Of course, we didn't call our folks to come get us when we realized it WASN'T Walt Disney.  We got to see The Incredible Shrinking Man the same way!

The second way that theater impacted my life was when my brother got his glasses.  We went to the theater that night and I asked him to let me look at the screen through his glasses, thinking the screen would look really funny!  Imagine MY SURPRISE when everything was sharp and clear!  I was telling my Dad on the way home and that landed me in the eye doctor's office where we found out my vision was worse than my brothers.  I was one of those kids who didn't ever take her glasses off unless I was in the shower, swimming or in bed.  It was amazing how well I could see with them....who knew!

I used to ride my bike into town to visit with a friend.  I would come flying down the hill (praying the German Shepard that lived in a house on my route wouldn't come out and chase me) and then when I got on the bridge, the part that raised up for ships was scary to cross because it shook and made noise when cars drove over it.