Some of my fondest memories are of the Globe Theater and Venus Theater. I have always been a movie buff and spent many, many hours in those theaters watching classics as well as Bowery Boys pictures.

The Globe was the older of the two and was already there when we moved to Denver Harbor in 1948. If I am not mistaken, the Venus opened in 1950 with the John Wayne film "The Sands of Iwo Jima." I remember that when the Venus played Disney's "Cinderella," my whole class at Elliott marched to the theater for a matinee performance one weekday.

The Globe often played double features of movies that were already five or six years old in some cases. For example, in 1948, there might be a double feature of the 1944 "Ghost Catchers" (with Olsen & Johnson) paired with the 1941 "Wolf Man" picture. The Globe also had a 'cry room' at the top of the balcony which enabled parents with babies to watch the film in a sort of 'soundproof' room so that if the baby cried, it could not be heard very well in the rest of the theater.