Saturday Morning Pictures

The Cinema c1955
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My name is John O'Connor of the Dublin O'Connor/Kelly family. Saturday morning could not come quick enough for our family, myself and brother Marty would walk 5 miles to the morning show with a shilling between us. Looking forward to cartoons with Mickey Mouse, on-going serials with the Lone Ranger or Flash Gordon where the end finished with the hero about to come to a nasty end that you had to come back next week to see. The shows usually started with a sing-song generated by a compere, then a different game show like eating a donut on a string the fastest or, my favourite, a singing contest. The first one I won was singing "She Loves You" by the Beatles. I won a big bag of mixed sweets that we shared with all our mates.
I remember walking through the tough winter of '63 up to our knees in snow to  get there and most annoyed to find it could not open. I remember thinking "Well, I walked 5 miles, what's the problem!" That's how much we enjoyed our  films.

Family outings to the pictures were few and far between but I remember us all going to see "Summer Holiday" with Cliff Richard and The Shadows, we sang those songs for months. And another was on Pole Fair day, 1962, it was raining, just as we were sheltering from it outside the Odeon, the doors opened and they were showing the new Bob Hope/Bing Crosby film "The Road To Hong Kong" so our Dad paid for us all to go to watch it . We laughed so much we cried and still talk about it to this day, it still is one of my favourite "Road" films.
Can anybody else add to these memories?