This post is part of a series of editorials written by Bert Walsh during his tenure as president and past president of the Shasta Historical Society. Readers are advised that his humor is often irreverent and rarely politically correct.
Click here for the table of contents for the entire collection of his editorials.
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We hardly ever go to the movies any more. There doesn't seem to be much point since we lost John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. It seems easier to sit at home and use the TV channel selector to search for the true Meaning of Life.
However, last month in protest against the sex, violence and really depressing local newscasts on TV we thought we would take in a movie, Things sure have changed. Why, the first thing I noticed is that they sell popcorn in something that looks like a five-gallon pail. Not only that; it seems they have five or ten different movies going on at the same time. Fortunately they show them in different rooms. This minimizes the confusion, although not entirely. A person still has to find the right room and then remember which one it is every time the popcorn bucket needs refilling.
Later on it occurred to me that this was the ideal way to handle Society meeting programs after we have increased membership from 600 to 6000 folks. On any typical meeting day, we would have several programs going at once. We might have a Seminar on the True Meaning of Life, a rescreening of my daughter`s wedding with film clips of our grandson spliced in, the ultimate Jean Beauchamp slide show, "Over the South Pole by Balloon," and warming up on the runway at Anderson International Airport would be a chartered 797 ready to whisk us off on an afternoon tour of the Overland Trail from Missouri to California.
How about it, gang-are you ready for the Future?
--BTW
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