10 bread sacks = admission to the movies??!?

Well, Friday is here and I have decided that I am not a very good blogger.  While I have had much to write about, time is a problem.  On Tuesday I spoke to the class of 1945.  They meet monthly and had asked me to tell them about El Dorado Main Steet.  Not knowing what to expect from this group, I brought a wide variety of topics, pictures, and materials for this presentation.  After all was said and done, I probably gained more from them than they did from me.  I brought some pictures of what downtown El Dorado looked like in 1945.  That brought back so many memories from them and the proceeded to tell me stories about many of the buildings.  They told me that on Sundays if you brought 10 bread sacks to the theatre downtown, you were given free admission.  Because of this, they would always go and collect bread sacks from all of their neighbors every week so that that they could attend the show.  One of the men told me about the gypsies and that they would come into town and beg for food.  He said that one year, they were sneaky and had robbed his mother while she was getting food for them.  The very next year the same gypsies came back and asked for food.  He said while laughing, "that year she made them stand on the porch".  It dawned on me that even though they robbed her a year earlier, she still fed them when they came back through town.  When I looked at him baffeled at this, he said "well of course she fed them again." 
Ahhh the good ol' days!