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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
We moved to San Marcos, TX after that for my second grade. No more barefoot schooldays. I rode my bike and we rode all over town. The rules were simple be home for dinner at 6:30 SHARP or go hungry. As soon as that was done we had to be home by the time the street lights came on.
We would ride our bikes to the middle of downtown park our unlocked bikes next to the theater and watch the Saturday matinee. 25 cents was the ticket and another 25 cents for the popcorn, sugar daddies, and a Coke in a bottle. We would walk along the side of the road and pickup Coke bottles to take to the grocery store to get the bounty and that made us enough to go to the movies.
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I grew up in the county near San Marcos and know exactly the theater you mentioned. It ceased operating as a theater in the early-mid '80s from what I remember, then it went between being various bar/grille/clubs for years and I'm not sure what it is now since I got out of high school in the mid-'90s and moved away from the area years ago.
They took the corrugated tin siding from the front of all of the old buildings downtown around 20 years ago. It looks awesome now! I think the only building that is still what it's always been is Lamar's Barber Shop across the street from the courthouse.
Since I was born in the late '70s my tales of yore are nowhere near what these are, but things like schools with no security and an open campus at lunch sound like another world compared to now. Playing baseball in the street with a tennis ball and all of the exploring in the hills and vacant land in Hays and Comal County are what I think back fondly of. All that land is probably developed now I guess.