Short Stories

I am excited and grateful to write a feature post about this award-winning movie Nate and John. To say that I am enthralled by the movie would be an understatement! Part of what made me love this short animated movie is my love for animation. I always enjoy watching animated movies. I would honestly say that the award won by this movie Nate and John is well deserving. Now you might be wondering what this movie Nate and John is all about.

The Story of Nate and John

John is dragged into the shop by his father to have something done about his son’s hippie haircut… Nate is a young black apprentice at a local barber shop. Nate and John first met in the sixties when John, a surly teen hippy, is forced to get a haircut and Nate, a Black young barber's assistant, obliges. From this ordinary beginning,…

Having mentioned Ralph the Cop, the Saenger Theatre on Palafox Street in Pensacola Florida, and my co-worker, Jim, I find it necessary to recount the night Ralph the Cop, interrogated Jim, mercilessly.

Jim loved racing and was a regular at Pensacola Five Flags Motor Speedway (disclaimer, one of the flags is the confederate battle flag). Saving his pennies and dimes, Jim amassed enough to purchase a stock race car, a 1955 Chevy, with a 357 horsepower engine, a car with a high win record as I understand it.

As mentioned in another forum post, "Pensacols's Police Sponsored Popcorn Shower", Ralph the Cop, often worked security with Jim and me, at the Sanger Theatre's, Saturday midnight movies.

One Saturday night shortly after Jim had bought the Chevy, Ralph the Cop strolled in to work security with us.

After a little chit-chat, Ralph began to casually ask questions of Jim...

Ralph: Hey,…

In 1962-63, while a senior at Pensacola Catholic High, I worked as a theater usher at the Saenger Theatre (that's how they spelled it), on Palafox Street, in downtown Pensacola, Florida. On Saturday nights, we would have a midnight movie. At about 12:30, all the adults went home leaving us teenage ushers in the "custody" of an off-duty Pensacola police officer... in uniform.

Ralph, a Pensacola police officer, who shall remain last nameless, was a nice guy and the cop who usually worked the midnight movie with me and my coworker, Jim.

It was customary for the ushers, to hold onto an empty popcorn box, to dip extra popcorn out of the leftover popcorn bin (usually a lot). We would set the box up on the half wall between the lobby and the back seats and would dip into the box as we watched the movie.

On Saturday nights, Ralph…