Movie Night

The best Saturday night movie ever....1986 TOP GUN...The barracks were swinging that night. I was on Battalion Staff and remember that about 8-10 cadets got written up between Alpha, Band and Bravo for running around after Taps pretending to be Goose and Cougar. Great Memories. Great memories.

Movie nights were a special event. Movies on Tuesdays meant CQ started immediately after Retreat, would end around 8:00. You had to "sign out" on a clipboard outside your company First Sergeant's door. If you didn't sign out (as the movies usually ended after Tatoo) you would be in a world of trouble. Most of the movies were in the Band Hall. I remember Saturday movies, but only very few of those, were shown in the gym.

Popcorn was available but I never had any money to buy any. The Tuesday movie was before allowance was issued (on Thursday) and the money was always blown by Saturday night. I remember watching Red Sonja, Highlander, The Man with One Red Shoe, Tough Guys, some war movies, and some really bad Sissy Spassek movie that I sat through only because I didn't want to be back in the barracks.

WOW the memories I was a member of the Student activities staff I. I graduated as the officer in charge of student activities in 99 and I rember it well. I used to show many a movie in th eback of the commandants office. We once had a fairly large collection of movies up there till a staff member who was dissmissed for stealing and going all over the campus in the tunnels stole most of them. The then Maj. Fender and I aranged for dominoes Pizza to deviler pizzas and we sold them. I so enjoyeded my position on staff i can still to this day remember the price of them . thanks for the memory sam

Thanks for bringing back some great memories. In 85-86, Wes Stone and I were on the Color Guard and Capt. Fender allowed us to run the operation of the popcorn room. At first it was just soda's, candy bars and popcorn. We convinced Capt. Fender to expand into frozen pizza's. We would go into the mess hall in the afternoon and sauce and cheese then refrigerate the pizza's and then cook them to order in the popcorn room. Ironically, Wes and I both went into the food service industry after college in sales. I remember recruiting our friends to help us work in the room as well. Free popcorn and all of the soda one's bladder could hold-that was living at the Fork! I have seen the numerous posts of the massive cockroaches, but everytime we would unlock the room, we would paper, scissors and rock who was going in first. When you would swing the door open and hit the lights, it was repulsive! Not only would the roaches scatter across the floor, the would fly and buzz your head and actually hum as they flew they were so huge! I do remember the phrase "Hook me up, man, c'mon and hook me up!" with everyone looking for a free soda or popcorn. We loved it because we were allowed to get out of CQ early on Tuesday nights, but then again we lived on the first floor of the Maples on the right. Another post for another thread, but CQ was quite festive living on the first floor of the Maples. Anyone else remember our porch with the hammocks? It was a real screened in porch that became quite the hang out on the weekends and during free time. I think the screening may have been missing. Many hilarious times we had out on the porch with Tommy Daniels, Craig Chamberlain, Boz Bosworth, Judd Hilton, Pierce Whiteside, Wes Stone, myself, Donnie King and countless others. There were several spitoons and ashtrays as several of us had tobacco permits. If anyone else remembers hanging on the porch, please post! Thanks for the memories, it just isn't the same when I try to explain it to my wife about the countless hours we spent talking, joking, goofing off, trying to gross each other out, etc. Oh and yes, we did talk academics from time to time too!

From 91-95 it was in the back of the commandants office. I belive Cpt Fender was in charge of the operation and some tech geek ran the projector.

Interesting experience, but not very comfortable sitting in those hard plastic chairs.

Yep movie night on Tuesday evenings. Only the popcorn wasn't free.

In the gym, no popcorn or drinks.

There is still a grand old 35mm projection system in the balcony of the Thomas Gym left from when they used to show movies on the huge screen at Thomas Gym. I've often thought about writing a story for the Call To Quarters about those movie nights with the professional projection equipment...if anybody has any info for me, be sure to post and/or email me!

Oh yeah... popcorn and a movie. I remember my Jr. year being one of the cadets who used to work the popcorn stand, never really cared to watch the movies. I remember all of the cadets wanting a "hook up" for free popcorn and/or soda.

I have heard from former cadets about the movie nights they used to have here. In the back of what's now the Commandant's Department, with popcorn provided, right?

CPT Mostrag, who is handling student activities this year, does try to do Saturday night movies for the cadets, either in the planetarium or one of the new library classrooms. I don't believe he provides popcorn, though. :(