Me and Dorothy been riding around McComb, a bigger town in the next county. I taken a few photos with my new iPhone and I'm gonna be talking to y'all about them over the next few days. Today I'm talking about the Palace Theater, what were a great place to watch picture shows particular on Saturday. You can see from the picture how bad it's done got. A lot of McComb are like that today. But back then (in the 1940's) on Saturday some of the cowboys what were in the picture show, they were showing that day, would show up and put on a little show themself. Sometime they would just talk but other times they would twirl their guns or crack their whips or spin their lassoes. One day we was having high school football practice and I looked up in the stands and seen Don Red Berry, one of my favorites, sitting in the stands. He stood out 'cause of his cowboy outfit and pearl handle guns. I went over and talked to him and all this led to him coming down into the shower room after we finished and meeting all the players. He were just wandering around while the movies were showing; biding his time till he went on stage. He offered us a ride in his car, what were one of them station wagons with wood on the side, and about twelve of us piled in. Some even rode on the running boards. He got us in back stage and we seen his little gun-twirling act from back there. A lot of other stars, peoples like Lash Larue, come to the Palace. Now, as you can see from the picture, ain't nobody coming.
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