From nobody Tue Oct 10 12:49:05 2006 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k9AIn5vU009411 for ROOTS-M; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:49:05 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9AIn2Yn009363 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:49:02 -0600 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.41]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9AIn2KY022360 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:49:02 -0600 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k9AIn1p3009298 for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:49:01 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9AIn1Yn009287 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:49:01 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9AImVas021758 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:48:55 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k9AG2EFI025279 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:02:14 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k9AG2ETI025278 for roots-l@rootsweb.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:02:14 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k9ABj6FI024607 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:45:06 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k9AERqJ5025494 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:27:52 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Tue Oct 10 08:27:52 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9AERqYn025483 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:27:52 -0600 Received: from web60925.mail.yahoo.com (web60925.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.253]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id k9AERkhE001354 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:27:49 -0600 Received: (qmail 74953 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Oct 2006 14:27:41 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Qn2dmY8uQr03rLZ9Jgb6Z+p8VLFRMtBeunHdsO13NR593S4WCLMp/MHsuZeGlJ7k17MW3BeUdg9Hz5LEa3DCL5AW4SJf/7Ts/aTRkVnzeOD5tZPJDoJRge9c/hJWv6R8M6+3+/VH0/nC0G+B2990Zv6NcVKpdTmUNuo1HNVyZA4= ; Message-ID: <20061010142741.74950.qmail@web60925.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60925.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:27:41 PDT Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:27:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k9AERqJ5025494 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k9ABj6FI024607 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] The Old Ritz Theatre The Old Ritz Theatre In my memories ¡¯round the Mill I remember back in the year 1944 we were at War with Germany, Italy and Japan. Folks in Yukon were sacrificing everything possible for the war effort. I remember as if it was yesterday all of the Saturday afternoon movies with Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger, Hop along Cassidy, and Gene Autry and the singing Cowboys. And I remember the Old Ritz Theatre located on the corner of 5th Street and Main on the north side of the street where the vacant spot is now that show cases out door furniture. There was living Quarters up stairs where a family named Turner lived with about five beautiful daughters. I do not remember who owned the Theatre. If you were a kid 12 years old and under you could see a movie for a dime, popcorn was a dime, candy bars and cokes for a nickel. There was a nation wide scrap metal drive collection going on, the United States was collecting Aluminum pots and pans to build airplanes and ships. If you brought an aluminum pot or pan to the Ritz Theatre you could get in to see the movie ¡±FREE.¡± I remember begging for one of mother¡¯s aluminum pans to take to the show. Back in the 1930¡¯s and 1940¡¯s when women cooked they did not have a lot of cookware like people have today. Most everyone that I knew cooked in enamel ware or rod Iron skillets. I remember in 1940 when dad and mom, Jake and Hazel Odle, my little brothers Orville Lester ¡°Buddy¡¯, Jimmie Lee Odle and I were living up the hill on Cedar Street on the South West corner in a little two bed room rent house owned by Mr. Ratzlif. A door-to-door pot and pan salesmen came to the door selling sets of aluminum ware. I remenber him telling my folks they were eating poison when they ate food cooked in enamelware. My dad bought the whole set, this was back in the days that you barely had enough food to cook for your family. And four years later I am taking moms precious pots to donate for the war drive so my brother Buddy and I can see the movie free. I think Dorthea and Larry Warrens parents bought the old Ritz Theatre before it burn down. The Warrens built a brand new really nice theatre behind the old wooden First Baptist Church that was called ¡°LARRY.¡± Years Later The LARRY THEATRE became the Yukon City Hall where you could go to pay your water bill or you could go into my friend Judge George Ramey¡¯s court with your traffic tickets. I remember when George was born his Grandfather Mr. George Bass was so happy. He was one big smile after another. The whole town loved Mr. Bass and his many acts of kindness. Today is in the month of October in the year of 2006 and as I set at my computer in the Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center with rain runing down my window pane I day dream about yester year and my home town of Yukon, Oklahoma with many Memories ¡¯Round the Mill and the old Ritz Movie Theatre. And I think about Roy Rogers and his horse trigger kicking up dust in heaven. And I wonder if ¡°OLD ROUTE 66¡± runs through heaven? By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.