Did you go to the Saturday morning children's movies?

Question

Do you rememberTarzans' son Boy ?
Do you remember Bomba The Jungle Boy? played by Johnny Sheffield.
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Answer 1

Yes. I had to pay 9 cents for the Kiddie Matinee every Saturday morning.

We got to see the western serials first, followed by some cartoons and the main feature. We all loved Tarzan and Abbott and Costello.

Can you imagine paying 9 cents for anything now. A few years later they started charging 25 cents. What I great childhood I had without even knowing it.

About Tarzan and Jane's Son, Boy, I wish they would have put him in more of the movies about Tarzan. Cheetah got most of the attention.

Yes, I remember the Jungle Boy too. But Tarzan was my favorite. Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen Sullivan (I think) was his wife. They were so cute together.

Thanks for the memories.

Answer 2

In the UK they were called 'tanner rushes', Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim, cartoons, newsreels, Tarzan and a serial where the hero is hanging on for grim death, the outcome was a debate for a whole week, he finally escaped from the devilish plot of the arch criminal known only as 39013 by hanging on by a broken toenail to the side of the cliff till a rope was handed down to him. Hopalong Cassidy, Tom Mix and Gene Autry. All the kids left the cinema swinging on the lamp posts imitating Tarzan or his chimp, glorious days, well remembered, thank you for the reminder have a star.

Answer 3

The only movie we had where I lived was a drive-in, so we only got to go at night. We did go to the indoor theatre when I was older, it was about 20 miles away. I remember Boy and watching Tarzan in reruns. I don't remember Bomba though. I enjoyed all those pictures in the link.

Answer 4

Always went to Saturday afternoon Matinees...dad would take us, started at 12 noon, ran until 5 pm....every Saturday. A couple of Westerns, or Tarzan, serial, cartoons, and very often, a YoYo salesman would be up there hawking Duncan YoYo's (walk the dog, round the world, etc. ) That was the up side of it. The down side was that Dad was usually toasted by the time he picked us up...and I mean TOASTED! I lost my Dad when I was 10 1/2 years old, drunk, he drove into a gasoline tanker truck. Fortunately, no one else was hurt. Good memories come with bad memories...such is life. Love and Peace, Goldwing

Answer 5

We always went to the Saturday Matinees. During the summer we could get in for just 3 7-Up bottle caps. What's up with that, I never did know. But it usually only cost about 10 to 25 cents, and we got to see cartoons, western's and the on going serial, something like Flash Gordon or such. This was when you could bring your own food in and we used to hit the candy store before we went in or at one of the Theatres there was a Karamel Korn shop next store, LOVED IT.

Answer 6

Donya, I do remember Boy. I didn't see Tarzan at the movies though. I saw it in re-runs every Saturday morning. I don't remember Bomba but I remember Sabu.

Answer 7

Weren't they great? Two movies, two serials, ten cartoons, and a newsreel!!! I loved Zorro and Flash Gordan. It was nine cents when I first started going at age five and a quarter the last time I went. My brothers and I used to go out on Sat. morning and mow just enough lawns to get us seventy five cents each for the movies. A quarter to get in and fifty cents for popcorn and candy. My dad would take us and pick us up and a lot of times take the whole family to the drive-in that night. I still love movies.

Answer 8

We went every Sat. morning in the summer to see "The Lone Ranger" or "Shirley Temple" My mom dressed me like her, I had hair just like hers. I hated getting dressed up, I was always a tom boy. I wanted to look like tonto or the lone ranger.
Tarzan came later, I would have liked Janes outfits.

Answer 9

Sure did....we called them the Saturday matinees...They showed serial movies and cliffhangers etc. LOVED 'EM!