It's 8:45 PM on a Saturday night, what were you doing as an 16, 17, or 18 year old?

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47. Yeah, we had bags of prepopped corn too

We were a smaller, second run theatre (we got new movies last, often after a year or more- it was the 70’s). The first run theatres had the fancy corn poppers.

I was an usher, and other than tearing tickets and pointing people to the correct theatre, my duties were comprised primarily of:

1) telling people there was no smoking in the theatre (a new rule back then)
2) kicking teens out of R rated movies like the Exorcist, MASH, and Texas Chain Saw Massacre
3) cleaning up barf, and when we had kiddie matinees (4 hours of daycare in the form of a Pippi Longstocking movie marathon, including a hot dog and coke for lunch for just $1!), pee.

All for the princely sum of $1.65 an hour (at least for the first year)

Ah, good times…