at 10 for a penny.

Kiddie Club: And even cheaper movie entertainment was available at the Fox. Kids could join the "Kiddie Club" and every Tuesday, the club membership card and a nickel would pay the admission of the club member and a friend. It amounted to two-for-a-nickel admission.

Lockwood lived on the Park Avenue side of Bayou Terrebonne and remembers crossing the bayou on a narrow footbridge at about the location of the present-day Orleans Avenue bridge.

The footbridge route would have shortened the walk to the Fox. At the time there was no Orleans Avenue or Gabasse Street bridge, so without the footbridge, someone coming from Orleans Boulevard would have been forced to go up the bayou to Barrow Street and back down Main to the Fox.

A different time:In the ’40s, Houma was considered safe enough that children could go to the movies downtown by themselves.

"There was not so much traffic," Lockwood says, and presumably, fewer perceived threats from any element of the local population.

Silver Saddle? Lockwood recalls Livingston as being one of a cowboy-star trio who called themselves the "three Mesquiteers." In connection with their movies, she remembers a "big silver saddle" being on display in the lobby of the Fox.

Web site information suggests that the cowboys who formed the Mesquiteers varied over the years, but at one point the trio consisted of Livingston, Max Terhune and Ray "Crash" Corrigan. It is not clear whether this is the trio Lockwood remembers.

In those days, she recalls, Calvin Use and the late father of Tommy Cobb worked