02-19-2020, 07:42 AM
(02-18-2020, 09:56 PM)Ed Hurst Wrote: My earliest memory reaches back to age 2. I was in a movie theater with my Mom. I recall the opening scene was an old steel trestle bridge, then the camera moved to a road crew. A guy running a jackhammer was yelling at someone else. Then I fell asleep because it was so nice and cool in the theater on a hot summer day. I can remember a lot of stuff from childhood like that. Sometimes it scares me just how much I can dredge up that way.
The first movie I went to, the rest of my family says, was Mary Poppins, which came out a good 12/13 years before I was born. So, I assume it was one of those matinee "classic movie" screenings. It was probably the early 80's because I don't remember the trip at all.
One of my earliest memories was being at a high school football game, but I might "remember" that because there are photos of it. A possible earlier memory was getting my stomach burnt on the kitchen stove. I had reached for something. I don't remember the actual incident, but the aftermath of the bandage and my mom caring for it, etc. Weird how memory works.