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In Celebration of TCH's first 50 years (1955 - 2005)

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Brian Guillory -

Late 70s Football

Tommy Fisher -

Late 70s Football

Later that weekend, you might decide to watch some Pro Football on TV. You'd be watching the NFL but not exactly like the one today. There was no NFC and AFC, only the NFL. In the late 1950s, a "rebel" league started, known as the AFL (American Football League). The two merged in 1970 and became known as the NFL. But since this was 1955, you were watching the game on channel 10 and you were paying attention very hard. You had to because there was no such thing as instant replay. If you missed the play, you were out of luck. You couldn't record it on your VCR either. It wouldn't come out until TCH is over 20 years old. The first VCRs weighed about 40 pounds and cost $1000 and each blank VHS tape that you recorded on cost $25 a piece. And you couldn't look forward to your Super Bowl party in January... that's at least 12 years away.

If you wanted to do something else over the weekend like see a movie, you couldn't go to

Kevin Brasseaux - Class of 1983

Blockbuster or anywhere else and rent a movie since there weren't any DVD or video tapes available. You couldn't turn on HBO or Showtime because they were still a good 20 years away. What you would do was either go to the Jefferson, the Nona (on Simcoe street) or the Pat Theater near 4 corners (hmmm...do I have to tell you where 4 corners is???). If you wanted to enjoy the night air, then you could go to the Twin Drive In on Johnston Street (right where The Grand is now located). There you could see a double feature and enjoy the little amusement park that was located between the 2 screens. Of course, no one really called any of those places theaters...we all called them picture shows (food was stored in a refrigerator but we still referred to them as iceboxes). And when you saw a movie at the picture show, that was the only time you saw it. It wasn't coming out on tape or DVD or pay per view in a few months or even a few years. If you wanted

to see it, you're only chance was the theater. If it was real popular, it would show on TV years later, but you really had no way of knowing which movies you would get a chance to see again. You did have the choice of staying at home and watching a movie, such as the Wizard of Oz, on TV. It came on once a year. But make sure you don't forget or you'll have to wait another year to see it.

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Nicole LaGrange