Guessing what films Kay saw at the second-run theater

Four three or four years, Kay and her partner Wilmetta "Teeny" Stockton lived and worked in Mill Creek Valley, an African-American section of St. Louis. Kay and Teeny loved to go to the local movie palace, but the selection of films was sketchy fror a number of reasons, including post-war shortages and a low-income neighborhood. 

Sometimes the "new" movies which showed up at neighborhood theaters were actually years old. Kay and Teeny used to joke that they'd gone to see the 1946 version of the film "Luxury Liner," only to find that they'd bought tickets for the 1933 version. 

In Kay's time, "Victory" often meant "hmmm" when it came to products

 

Kay's Peers: A Violinist

 https://www.thestrad.com/news/american-violinist-camilla-wicks-dies-aged-92/11495.article?fbclid=IwAR3X0i7RYOPZETi54juUzqvmPdC3PBFBZw98pnVieYax2j3DREKfdnaPDYk

Teeny's Cartoon Corner

 Teeny Stockton, Kay's life partner was a big fan of cartoons. Betty Boop was fine, but Teeny really loved Pudgy the dog. 

Here's Pudgy in "Swing School":

Song from Kay's era by Guy Lombardo and Orchestra

 

Kay's partner Teeny was a cartoon lover

 

Teeny cartoon hound https://www.newsfromme.com/iaq/iaq12/#:~:text=Disney's%20%22Silly%20Symphonies%2C%22%20the,cartoons%20built%20primarily%20around%20music.&text=Apart%20from%20that%2C%20the%20other,%2Dand%2Dwhite%20until%201943.

Friends of Kay: Bob McFadden

 http://www.rankinbass.com/bobmcfaddenhome.html

In Kay's era: The Kalamazoo Gals at the Gibson factory

 https://www.michiganradio.org/post/best-gibson-guitars-were-made-kalamazoo-gals?fbclid=IwAR2VwpQYNz4QdxoBVSy3fhLfk1QscCFyAG98v4b6x927_HkOI2sfEtpsNIk

Drummer Viola Smith, born in 1921, has passed away

 A contemporary of Kay's. Kay lived till the late 1980s but Viola stayed with us until October. 2020. 

What does it say about America that there were seven (7) Francis the Talking Mule movies?

The release of "Francis" in 1950 coincided with the start of Kay's growing dissatisfaction with the way popular culture was headed. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_(film) 

Kay and military communication

 Kay fell into situations both as a WAAC member and as a civilian worker at an airfield in which she helped with communications technology. She'd had to learn on the job and quickly in the year when she'd been a high school band director, as managing the school's radio club was part of the job. 

I'm sure she had experience with teletypes, working properly and otherwise. I have only been through about a third of the archival material I have so who knows what will turn up on th topic in the future?

http://taipeisignalarmy.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-model-15-by-teletype-corporation.html