A friend of mine took me to see his old school. As we walked in he stopped and said, “They must have changed the entry, it used to have stairs with these really tall risers!” I suggested maybe he had grown up and they weren’t so tall anymore.
Actually, this is true. When I was a kid, we had ONE movie theater. It had previously been an old vaudeville theater. Wide, and with a balcony! Later on (70s?), the town built a new facility….a multiplex with many theaters inside the building. But each “theater” was narrow and small. And of course, no balconies, so no more throwing popcorn on the patrons below. LOL.
I remember the old movie houses. Then “they” came out with googleplexes where you have a choice of watching 17 different movies.
Actually it didn’t work out too badly. Several years back, my son and I went to one of them to watch “The Hobbit.” My wife, daughter-in-law and our three granddaughters went to some “chick flick.”
Yeah, I can agree with that. When I was little all the rooms were huge. They seem to carry on forever, but as I get older and bigger. They’re actually really small.
How can a theater get narrower and narrower? The answer is quite easy, you get older. Need more of an explination? Ok, the theater didn’t actually get narrower and narrower. It’s just when his father was little the theater seemed huge but as he grew older he slowly realized it wasn’t as big as he thought when he was little. I can remember going to my grandmother’s apartment as a little kid of about five or six and thinking the place was huge. It would seem the living room was like thirty feet across to me at that age. As a young adult it clear the same living room wasn’t that large, maybe eight to twlve feet across and a lot easier to become crowded real fast. Same apartment, same living room, neither time did it have too much in the way of furniture (in fact as a young adult it actually had slightly less furniture than when I’d been a little kid), but I just grew to realize it had never been aws big as a little kid sees it.
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
you asked, Miss Reichardt, you received
orinoco womble almost 5 years ago
A friend of mine took me to see his old school. As we walked in he stopped and said, “They must have changed the entry, it used to have stairs with these really tall risers!” I suggested maybe he had grown up and they weren’t so tall anymore.
jpayne4040 almost 5 years ago
Charlie Brown is a lot smarter than the kids in this strip give him credit for.
dlkrueger33 almost 5 years ago
Actually, this is true. When I was a kid, we had ONE movie theater. It had previously been an old vaudeville theater. Wide, and with a balcony! Later on (70s?), the town built a new facility….a multiplex with many theaters inside the building. But each “theater” was narrow and small. And of course, no balconies, so no more throwing popcorn on the patrons below. LOL.
dflak almost 5 years ago
I remember the old movie houses. Then “they” came out with googleplexes where you have a choice of watching 17 different movies.
Actually it didn’t work out too badly. Several years back, my son and I went to one of them to watch “The Hobbit.” My wife, daughter-in-law and our three granddaughters went to some “chick flick.”
gantech almost 5 years ago
Nawww, he’s not getting philosophical…the theater was just dimensionally transcendental and the neutron polarity accidentally got reversed.
Ellis97 almost 5 years ago
Chuck sure has a unique vision of the world.
Neo Stryder almost 5 years ago
It got narrower because as your dad grew, he became taller and wider, and saw things from a new perspective.
ajakimber425 almost 5 years ago
Yeah, I can agree with that. When I was little all the rooms were huge. They seem to carry on forever, but as I get older and bigger. They’re actually really small.
marilynnbyerly almost 5 years ago
Yeah, Charlie. The theater becomes filled with nostalgia and memories which makes it huge again.
knight1192a almost 5 years ago
How can a theater get narrower and narrower? The answer is quite easy, you get older. Need more of an explination? Ok, the theater didn’t actually get narrower and narrower. It’s just when his father was little the theater seemed huge but as he grew older he slowly realized it wasn’t as big as he thought when he was little. I can remember going to my grandmother’s apartment as a little kid of about five or six and thinking the place was huge. It would seem the living room was like thirty feet across to me at that age. As a young adult it clear the same living room wasn’t that large, maybe eight to twlve feet across and a lot easier to become crowded real fast. Same apartment, same living room, neither time did it have too much in the way of furniture (in fact as a young adult it actually had slightly less furniture than when I’d been a little kid), but I just grew to realize it had never been aws big as a little kid sees it.
DaveLowell Premium Member almost 5 years ago
‘Girls don’t like it when a boy gets philosophical, Chuck’
Ohhhh, now I understand…
ejrayh almost 5 years ago
Girls, and women, only like it when you agree with them.
DCBakerEsq almost 5 years ago
Life sucks. Then, you die.