I'm going back through what comprised my senior year of high school and first semester of college in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Come along for the ride. New posts every day or so mixed in with other things.
August 31, 1984. It's Friday night and that means movies! And the beginning of a pre-season football tradition that may still be going on; it was the first Rutherford County Football Jamboree. Riverdale would play Smyrna for a half while Oakland would take on the Hendersonville Commandos for a half. First up, here are the movies you could see in Murfreesboro.
Prince is back at the Cinema Two!!
I was surprise to learn that the Football Jamboree on this night was the first one ever for Rutherford County schools. I may have gone to this since I was now driving the Impala. The Riverdale Warriors had lost 19 players to graduation and only returned 4 full time starters. Come back tomorrow and find out the results!
I'm going back through what comprised my senior year of high school and first semester of college in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Come along for the ride. New posts every day or so mixed in with other things.
August 30, 1984. It's Thursday which means school. This might have been the day when 2 freshman girls came up to the Gonz and me out of the blue. They just starting chatting us up. Gonz ended up dating one of them for the school year and some beyond I think. I had spent most of my previous two years at Riverdale pining for girls that didn't reciprocate my feelings so I had resolved not to get involved with girls my senior year. I, for the most part, had no trouble with this, but I would end up with some crushes later in the school year.
As for what was happening in Murfreesboro and the county that would one day soon have an impact on me...the county sheriff declared war on poker machines. I didn't play the poker machines. I played pinball and video games. This poker machine war would see one of my favorite game rooms shut its doors for good in less than 2 years. Memorial Village's Family Billiards days were now numbered.
DNJ August 30, 1984 headline
Family Billiards 1977 ad from M.T.S.U.'s Sidelines paper
I'm going back through what comprised my senior year of high school and first semester of college in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Come along for the ride. New posts every day or so mixed in with other things.
August 28, 1984. It's the first day of classes for county schools so I begin my senior year at Riverdale. I rode a school bus in 7th grade, and 9th through 11th, but this year I get to drive to school. I'm in my father's big honking '75 Chevrolet Impala. I would get it up to 100mph regularly the first few weeks driving home on Manchester Highway to where we lived on Jimmy C. Newman's farm off Big Springs Road. I gave the freshman neighbor a ride home during the first week of school and told him he could ride with me every afternoon, but that one ride was enough for him. There's no way you'd be able to go that fast on Manchester Highway now as there's too much traffic thanks to all of the new houses built out that way. It's best anyways for that freshman as, little did I know it at the time, but we would be moving from the farm very soon.
I would only need 5 credits to graduate so I wouldn't have a 6th period this year which was nice. English with Mrs. Becky Hofstetter was up first, then on to Mrs. Warner's for homeroom. My next 3 classes were all in the same block of classes so it was a breeze making it on time for Sociology/Psychology with Mickey Vanzant, Geography with Coach Fisher, and Mrs. Martindale's World History. Lunch came midway through World History. I finished up the day in Accounting with Mrs. Kiser. Then, it was sweet freedom! Later in the school year I would sometimes go over to my friend Jeff''s house where he'd play the Kiss album Unmasked while waiting to go back to Riverdale to pick up his girlfriend. I wonder if he remembers us doing this? Memory is such a strange and wondrous thing...I mean, all I have to do is apply just a small effort in my mind and I'm back in the mid-80's experiencing it all again. And it was all so wonderful most of the time.
Here's what played at the Martin Theatre located at Jackson Heights Shopping Center, Murfreesboro, Tennessee from July through December 1971. The ads come from the Daily News Journal. Some trailers thrown in for good measure. Note: if you find any of the trailers offensive take it up with the original filmmakers.
July 1, 1971 - July 7, 1971
Love Story trailer
July 8, 1971 - July 14, 1971
Pure imagination...
July 15, 1971 matinee
July 15, 1971 - July 28, 1971
July 22, 1971 matinee
July 29, 1971 matinee
Wild, Wild Planet trailer (seems a little intense to be a kid's matinee)
