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 | | Every Saturday, as I started out the door, my mother would say, "Have you got carfare?" I would reply, "Yes-s-s-s, Mother," disgusted that she thought I was so stupid as to go without it. |
 | | Admission was a nickel, for which we got to see a double bill (a good movie and a "B" movie), a serial (usually had thirteen installments, one each Saturday), and five Popeye cartoons. |
 | | One Saturday I took Billy Tankersley, a kid a couple of years younger than I was who lived down the block, to the movie with me. He was too young to go by himself. |
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