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msean commented about Rialto Theater on Jun 28, 2009 at 1:22 pm

We lived on Arkansas Street back in the ‘40s and my brother and I would walk to the Rialto and sometimes to the Victoria. That was back when parents felt OK about letting a six and eight year old walk alone.

The Rialto was always a madhouse on Saturdays with kids running and making so much noise you could hardly hear the movie. When we were in a more subdued mood we would go to the Victoria. They had ushers imported from Nazi Germany who made everyone stay in their seat and keep quiet.

In what to a child was a lifetime later, I ended up in the machine shop of the Wurlitzer Plant making parts for the Rialto’s organ while working my way through college.