Pumps' Perplexities

You always went to your parents for movie money....If you
were over 16 and could work then your parents allowed
you to keep some of your paycheck for movie money.....

There is a crisis in today's cinema.....Bad product, early
DVD release times and add to that gasoline prices,
expanded use of credit and all this has an effect on the
"movie money".....Just like the days of olde.....

"Mommy can I have a quarter to go to the movies?"......"No
dear, Mommy does not have the money this week", was the
usual answer....Today it is "Mommy can I have $10".....The
answer is still the same with the $10 going into household
expenses, like it did 60 years ago.....

When bowling was 25 cents a "line" and gasoline 18 cents
a gallon.....The hourly wage for 16 year olds was 65-75 cents
an hour......But when you could scrape up the movie ticket
price for two, there was always the last row of seats in the
upper balcony.....Even bad movies made money then...Pumps