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Show Lehi Heritage - Thursday, April 2, 1981 - Page 9 A Saturday Afternoon In Lehi; 1952 Style By Donna Barnes Gone gone with the D.C. 3's, sugar-starche- d - nigger petticoats, babies, and "Leave It To Beaver", gone with the Bandstand in Wines Park, f 1 .jj I? tli Annu Shelton's On Full Service Drapes Clean, Press and Pleat Cash and Carry Only Come In For This Discount Price on Our New -- I - PEKFECT IPLEAT SYSTEM fM lir Fabric restored DRAPES 'f with special sizing process. Pleated just right. Removed and professionally if desired. Draperies will last longer if cleaned once a year by our special method. Removable furniture covers carefully dry cleaned to restore original beauty at Durfey's Dry Cleaning. i i JLA j EXTRA CARE and savor every mouthful down to the thimble size tip. I often ate my cone sitting on a stool at the counter admiring the array of ice cream dishes, knobs labeled with topping flavors and apothecary jars standing side by side above the mirror; or even more often, I would take my cone and my little sister, Ann's hand and skip home, making sure I didn't step on any cracks on the sidewalk. In considering these idyllic moments of, my the most childhood, painful remembrance is that I did all this for a quarter, V.,,-,-tV- strawberry Tarzan serials. Again my imagination flew away and I became Jane or Spider Lady and would be whisked away by Tarzan or Flash. I remember, distinctly, what I now finding, know as a vacumn cleaner attachment and thinking it looked like a deadly ray gun, I strapped it to my waist and instantly became a space explorer saving the earth from little gold and green aliens. After the matinee I would go to Stan Taylor's drug store and buy a vanilla ice cream and re-hu- ng 1 lb. ham- Gordon Flash Good thru April i a patch, but one thing that is gone, for which I shall forever feel sorry, is the Saturday Matinee at the Royal Theatre. My life was measured from one Roy Rogers movie to another and my day dreams were filled with me taking Dale's place and riding off into the sunset with Roy. Alternating with Roy and Dale, were the Speaa In $.39 burger at the Coop, and $5 shoes at Leany's Mercantile. Gone with the hot summer days spent hoeing corn and thinning sugar beets on the bench, the dips in the canal, and early mornings spent in a single, solitary quarter. 45 West Main American Fork 756-357- 4 Love of mankind is an empty phrase unless we can first learn to love our neighbor. |