Avi Rosenzweig
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Our current perspective mainly notices that people dressed up to go to the movies back then. Going out for the evening was a big deal at a time when Americans were still aspiring to materialist utopia, rather than having achieved it. Today we can get all dolled up, but it isn’t necessary. Back then it was de rigeur. Convenience outweighs appearance nowadays, and outweighing applies literally, too.

When I was a kid and families went to their local theater, they usually had a regular spot in the pews, and they would greet their friends and neighbors in their regular spots. Recall also the jokes about smoke intermissions and candy vendors in the Looney Tunes cartoons…

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