We never forgot. Wish I was somewhere else today I ain't partic'lar where Maybe upon a mountain top Breathin' that cool blue air Or I could fish a mountain stream Catch me a big fat trout Maybe wander to Galveston Get a sunburn, no doubt I had a love in Texas once Maybe I'll hold her hand Tell her of all the things I miss Since I became a man Wonder if I could kiss her still 'Neath a full Texas moon Tell her things I have said before - Listen to Elvis croon Guess that's askin' a little much - I'll think it anyway Don't see the harm in dreamin' that I'm somewhere else today Poem by Larry Bradfield..
Andrews High School As I have said before, the years of through , were 10 years of the most unique times ever, and those years are much of what this website is all about. I am grateful I got to experience them, and these ensuing thoughts of them are meant to hopefully convey to later generations just how good it was.
Odessa had a proliferation of drive-in movies and even twin drive-in movies in those days, and they were hum-dingers. Consider the Cactus drive-in back then that was on the eastern edge of town, almost out in the country. Today, if you head east on second or eighth, those two streets end in a convergent intersection, and just north of that intersection is a large group of apartments.
That is the land upon which the Twin Cactus Drive-in movie theatre was built in those early days of the fifties. I remember every detail of it. The ticket buying side of that twin drive in was to the east side of the complex and the entry into it consisted of tall walls on each side of the paved entry driveway.
In the early years, and in our new Oldsmobile 98 four door sedan with a factory installed air conditioner, our two parents and their four children would motor down that driveway excited at the proposition that we could have the opportunity to see two new movies for the price of one, and we could watch from the crowded car, or we children could go to the area just beneath the screens where outdoor chairs in a line were available for watching.
