Weekend Plans

Yay! It's Thursday! This week is almost over!
Lots of stuff is going on this weekend.
We have my favorite activity ever: Movie Night at the Rodeo Opry!

Darling Husband's Realtor is hosting a Halloween Party Friday from 7-10. Isn't she cute?

 My company is having their Megabucks party Friday from 6-10.

 Saturday night, Nickelback will be playing the Ford Center with Buck Cherry and Three Days Grace.

I have no pictures for that. Sorry.

The Sooners are playing the Iowa Cyclones in Norman.
We have the Edmond Farmers Market.
There is a Gun, Knife, and Outdoor Equipment Show and also a JW Swapmeet starring motorcycle accessories; both activities will be taking place at the State Fair Park.
Even better:
Saturday, I am going to TEXAS to see my Dad and my Stepmom! YAAAYYY!!! Totally excited! (Darling Husband is staying home with the dogs.) I may even get to see my new cousin's birthday. (We will be celebrating his First!)
So what are your plans?
Thanks for Stoppin' By!
Jen

Movie Night Comments

We went to movie night at the Rodeo Opry on Friday night. We had a great time!

The movie was really cute. It is kind of fun to watch their high-tech efforts from the 1930's.

The movie itself felt like a morality picture but it had a good ending.

Thanks for Stoppin' By!

Jen

Movie Night!

TONIGHT!

Go to the Oklahoma State Fair for a couple hours, then swing by Stockyards City and watch the 1933 classic "State Fair!" Stockyards City Main Street Presents: Movie Night at the Rodeo Opry! When: Friday, September 17 at 7:00pm Where: Rodeo Opry, 2221 Exchange Ave., 73108

FREE ADMISSION

In honor of the Oklahoma State Fair, they are proud to be showing State Fair the 1933 classic starring Will Rogers and Janet Gaynor. Movie Review: The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the three because of its stricter adherence to the source material and the presence of star Will Rogers. Rogers plays Abel Frake, patriarch of a family whose individual members are affected by the upcoming Iowa State Fair in various fascinating ways. Abel hopes to enter his prize hog Blue Boy and win the blue ribbon. His wife Melissa (Louise Dresser) wants to enter her mincemeat in a food competition, his son Wayne (Norman Foster) wants to get even with a carnival sharpster who'd outsmarted him during the last state fair, and daughter Margery (Janet Gaynor) just wants to get out of the house for a little fun. The parents win their prizes (though it looks for a while that Blue Boy will succumb to a serious illness) the children have brief romances (one happy, one cautionary), and everyone goes home a little wiser for the experience.

Article Totally Hijacked from the Stockyards City Newsletter

Thanks for Stoppin' By!

Jen

Movie Night at the Rodeo Opry, the next day

It was fun! Movie of course is kind of cheesy, but it was great acting when the movie was actually released ( shhh, 1947). The theater is the Rodeo Opry in the Stockyards of Oklahoma City. Darling Husband and I got to the theater a little early, so we had time to look around. You walk in the front door under the large marquee. On the right side, the operation's offices are located. On the left side, you find the concession stand. Two small bags of popcorn, two bottles of water, and we only spent $6.00 on concessions!! Two drinks and popcorn at the other theaters usually cost us $16.00. So we are already enjoying ourselves. We walk up the ramp to the auditorium. On the left and right sides of the ramp, the walls are decorated with pictures of performers, past and present. We walk in and are greeted with this sight:

The lighting was old and dim, it really reminded me of what you would think of the old movie theaters would be like when this movie was originally released.

One old gent walked in and he looked like he might have been a little boy and seen this movie when it was first in theaters.

We walked in, sat down in the second row from the back and towards the middle. The movie started. Angel and the Badman is a wonderful film about what else? An angelic woman and a badman. John Wayne is of course the bad man, and Gail Russell plays a Quaker woman. The opening of the movie shows John Wayne's character, Quirt Evans, notorious shootist, rustler, and womanizer riding "hell-bent for leather." Gail Russell's character, Penelope Worth, and her father are in a buggy in a field headed towards home. Quirt's horse collapses under him and he is thrown. Penelope and her father take Quirt home, nurse him to health, and generally grow fond of him. But Quirt can't let go of his past and it comes to call. As the film progresses, Quirt has to determine if he is going to stay on the side of good, or if he is going to be a bad man for forever.

This ninety minute film is the first that John Wayne both starred in and produced.

This evening was really fun and I can't wait for the Rodeo Opry to do it again!

Thanks for stoppin' by!

Jen