Stories of Days Gone By:

As a youngster growing up in Nampa in the late '40s and 1950s, I attended the Pix Theatre nearly every Saturday for several years. I paid 20 cents for admission and 5 cents for a roll of cherry Lifesavers, Saturday after Saturday, year after year. On occasion I also attended movies at the Majestic Theatre, several blocks away, and, infrequently, another theater on 1st Street, near 14th Avenue. I do not precisely remember its name, but it could have been the Adelaide Theatre.

The Pix stands out most in my memory. While in high school -- I graduated in 1963 from NHS -- I had friends who worked there as ticket takers and ushers, etc., and who made popcorn nearly every afternoon in a small room on the south side of the main entrance. In good weather, they would open the side door to the street, and passers-by could smell the popcorn for blocks. Once in a great while, I would be invited into the projection booth -- always a thrilling moment. And, once or twice, I watched a movie from the upstairs, glassed-in area. I don't know why I was invited there, but I remember being there. I believe my family knew the owners, but I cannot recall their name.

John Keahey , Salt Lake City, Utah