Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Quotes
Short Stories
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Resources
Syllable Counter
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 3.144.248.125
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
Laid down on the sofa today, memory taking me back to teen years of so long ago. When friend Danny and I would go down town on Saturday afternoon to see a movie at the Paramount, a movie palace with a wide screen, that would put the theaters of today to shame. We saw such movies as "The True Story of Jesse James", Gunfight at the Ok Corral", "The Incredible Shrinking Man' and so many more. Sometimes we would go over to Marshall's Music room next door and play records for hours in the sound booth upstairs, where we would listen to such stars as Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, little Richard, Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Bill Haley and the comets, the man who started Rock ' n Roll. Then later we would go across the street to the City Drug and have a coke for ten cents, then catch a bus home. Where on Saturday night these two college students from Iowa State had a TV Show called Graves 'n Manor, which showed monster movies until 2 in the morning, we made some popcorn and had our Pepsi in the bottle. Lets not forget this was the year that " Leave it to Beaver" had its start on TV and American Bandstand and a very young Dick Clark was on Saturday afternoon. This was the year that the New York Yankess and the Milwaukee Braves played in the World Series won by the Braves in seven games. Ford put out one of the best cars ever that year, which for a time was driven by Ward Clever on "Leave it to Beaver". My brother who was still in the Navy came home on leave and to our surprise had bought one and brought it home with him, and my friend Danny and i helped my brother wash it one Saturday afternoon, while we listend to "That'll Be the Days" What a car, what a song, and what a great year it was, I could write a book about this year along. Written 5-12-11
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required