We watched Disney's "Jungle Book" with our granddaughter last night

[Omaha Steve]

Memories of my childhood came rushing back. Mom didn't drive. We took the bus downtown and had lunch at "Kings". There was a guy getting signatures on a "SAVE free TV" petition. It was 15 years later that Omaha got cable. This is the theater where I saw the film back in 1966.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creighton_Orpheum_Theater



The first time our kids saw the film was on a faded VHS bootleg. The Star Wars films and Disney animated films (Dumbo was the only Disney animated film on home video at the time) were bragging rights back then.

We gave all our grandkids 1 share of Disney stock for Christmas last year. Madison now tells her friends she "owns 1/2 of Disneyland". We just smile when she says it. Here is what it looks like.

OS

[onehandle]

1. 'I've reached the top and had to stop and that's what's botherin' me.'

[Bluenorthwest]

2. One of the remaining great Vaudeville houses, the Creighton Orpheum

had a great history even before it was made part of the Orpheum circuit. What a great place to see films as a kid, Steve.
I remember seeing the film and coming home to make a diorama of a scene in the film, also reading the Disney 'novelization'. I brought the movies home with me when I was a child, they lived on long after the credits rolled.....

[Omaha Steve]

3. The last movie in the theater was another Disney film

The Love Bug.

[Number23]

4. My four year old is in love with all of those old school Disney movies

Jungle Book, Cinderella, even the racially questionable Dumbo and Peter Pan. Although Shere Khan (I'm sure I'm spelling that wrong) does give her a bit of a fright.

[Omaha Steve]

5. Song of the South probably won't ever be released on home video in the US

More than just questionable on race.

It is popular in Japan.