Movie Nights, Heavy Projectors, and Our First VCR
Growing Up Before Everything Was Just a Click Movies were a big part of my childhood. Long before Netflix, streaming services, or even a VCR in our living room, my mother found a way to bring the movies home. And believe me, back then, watching a movie took some serious effort. A Mile to the Movies In the late 1970s, when I was just a little kid, my mother would gather up all four of us children, and we'd walk about a mile to the local library. We weren't going there just to check out books. We were going to bring home the movies. Back then, the library had actual film projectors you could borrow, along with those enormous reels of film. These weren't little machines you could tuck under your arm. They were big, heavy pieces of equipment. My poor mother had the worst job. She carried that heavy projector all the way home, while the four of us kids helped carry the giant film reels. Just picture that for a moment. A mother with four young children walking a mile ...
