re: Wizard of Oz.

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I remember that movie basically came on once every year. You knew when it was going to come on and was glued to the TV 30 mins before.


Amazing what streaming and the ability to record has done to some of the excitement of shows. Charlie Brown was the same way

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Yep, those were good times. I would see them advertise a week or two before, and write down date, time, and channel and post it on the fridge so I wouldn't forget. Back then, if you missed it, you missed it.

It always seemed like they would show the Wizard of Oz sometime between Halloween and Christmas. Then, there was the Charlie Brown trifecta - the Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas specials. Then there was also The Grinch, Frosty, Rudolph, and some of those other Baskin- Rankin stuff.

Good times. Good memories.

In 1939, my grandmother (no pics) worked at the ticket window for a small movie theater in Portland, Oregon. She told me what a big deal Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz were when they came out. Once the patrons entered the theater, she would close up the ticket counter for awhile and go watch some of the movie. She said she probably saw each one fifty times that year. It was decades later before she watched either one on television because she had seen them so many times in 1939.