My grandfather McCabe Cooley was the manager of the Fruitvale theatre when he died in 1958. I was only 5 years old at the time but I have some memory of going to the theatre and seeing him there. When my brothers and sister and I were very young our grandfather gave us a stack of old movie marquees. They were printed on very heavy paper in those days. He gave them to us so that we could color on the back sides or cut things out of them which is exactly what we did to them. I still have 3 of them left to this day intact, “Flight to Tangier”, “Calamity Jane” and “All The Brothers Were Valient”. I’ll never know what great movie marquees slipped through my hands as a child. Interestingly the 3 that I still own have the same collector number printed on them.
My grandfather McCabe Cooley was the manager of the Fruitvale theatre when he died in 1958. I was only 5 years old at the time but I have some memory of going to the theatre and seeing him there. When my brothers and sister and I were very young our grandfather gave us a stack of old movie marquees. They were printed on very heavy paper in those days. He gave them to us so that we could color on the back sides or cut things out of them which is exactly what we did to them. I still have 3 of them left to this day intact, “Flight to Tangier”, “Calamity Jane” and “All The Brothers Were Valient”. I’ll never know what great movie marquees slipped through my hands as a child. Interestingly the 3 that I still own have the same collector number printed on them.