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The Nile Theater holds many memories for me. Not only is the place that my wife, Debbie, worked as a ticket girl, it is also the place where my mouth nearly caused me to lose my front teeth.
I recall that it was probably early in the 1980s and we had gone to watch a newly released science fiction movie. My brother, Jim and his wife, Tina, had accompanied Debbie and I to the show. Believe me when I say we love science fiction. Apparently, so did half the population of Bakersfield, because we had to wait in a very long line.
By the time we finally purchased our tickets the auditorium was nearly full and the only four seats we could find together were in the third row. The third row? Yeah, we had to slouch way back in our seats to watch the towering figures march across our field of vision. I hate having to sit in this position, but as I said, I love science fiction, and I wasn’t going to let a potential sore neck keep me from watching Dennis Quaid’s thrilling...
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