I talk a lot about my family living with my great grandmother. We eventually moved out and into our own place. Seems like we were moving around a lot, but always within walking distance from our previous dwelling. My mom eventually reconnected with the love of her life, Mr. Frank, whom we met once or twice. I guess Greg, Pat and I had never met anyone named Frank before, so we would call him Frankenstein. He didn't seem to mind.
Mom had some great news for us. "We're moving." "Again?" This time we were moving far away. It really wasn't that far away, but it was a long walk from our old house.
This neighborhood was nice. It had trees. Some houses had little bushes and gardens in the front. It really looked like paradise. The best thing about this neighborhood was that "The Capitol Movie Theater" was around the corner. Greg and I were beside ourselves. We heard about the theater and couldn't wait to see it.
There were several movie theaters in the surrounding neighborhoods. It was always fun to walk by the theaters to look at the posters and hope to see a monster or a gladiator.
In our old neighborhood I remember someone taking me to see "13 Ghosts". It was scary, but not as scary and bothersome as seeing "Night of the Living Dead".
There were a few things that made this film "bothersome" for me.
For one, they played "Time of the Season" by the Zombies before the movie. Hearing that song in a beat-up old theater before this particular film was almost too much for me.
The other thing that got to me was, this was the first movie I had ever seen that had a black guy in it who was the hero. WOW! Unbelievable. And guess what happened to him at the end? I was stunned. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't sleep for days.
To heck with that raggedy old theater, we can now walk to "The Capitol", the best of all the local movie theaters. Our mom agreed to let Greg and I walk around and explore. We went looking for "The Capitol". This place was suppose to be around the corner. We didn't see anything. We were walking all over the place, and practically ended up in our old neighborhood. We gave up and walked backed home. Turns out the theater was exactly around the corner. However Greg and I were looking for something that resembled the White House. A big white building with pillars.
We were pretty disappointed to see a not so raggedy movie theater with a huge sign "The Capitol" right in front.
But we got used to it. Every weekend we'd walk there to see the new posters.
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