That year was my sophomore year in high school and the National Basketball Championship game was played in Seattle. My best friend’s dad took us to see it. Kentucky was the favorite because it had two All-Americans, Ralph Beard and Alex Groza. Perhaps the most memorable event in the game was that as he was…

As they say, ‘back in the day” when I was a kid the movie theaters were my primary babysitters. We had five theaters in my hometown, and all were near where I lived because I mostly lived downtown. It always was a short walk to a “show” as we called them. There was “The Grand”,…