It's Saturday. What did Saturdays mean to you as a child ?

Loved a sleep-in, only had to get up at 8am. Usually played in the back yard with my sisters. Parents could only afford to let us go to the movies every second Saturday. This was such a happy time. Only enough money for the ticket and an ice-cream. This was in the late 50's.
 
When we were in 6th grade at the Catholic School, we had to attend Saturday morning classes. 9am - 1pm. to get us ready for the Primary Final Exams at the end of the year. When we got the results of the exams every girl passed with Honours. Unheard of in those days. We had a very cruel Nun teaching us and used physical abuse with a long bamboo cane. I used to come home with welts on my calves. They got away with a lot in those days. I'll never forget her, Sister Malachy., we used to call her the Witch of Salem.
 
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Saturday was play day and sometimes my parents would have friends over. So all of us kids would disappear into my room while the adults conversed. Other Saturdays it was stay up to watch Have Gun Will Travel and Sea Hunt and then go to bed. Saturday was the only day when the bedtime got stretched.
Movies were once in awhile. I remember you got the cartoon and a double feature. I also remember my mother going to the movies at night because it was dish night.
The more I think, the more comes flooding back.
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Mornings cartoons.

Night time:
8:30 Mom turned on The Lawrence Welk Show on ABC. BOO!
9:30 Dad turned over to CBS for Have Gun, Will Travel (2nd favorite western to Rawhide, got both on DVD)
10:00 My father kept CBS on for Gunsmoke (which I believe was his favorite western)
 
Paladin1950 said:
Mornings cartoons.

Night time:
8:30 Mom turned on The Lawrence Welk Show on ABC. BOO!
9:30 Dad turned over to CBS for Have Gun, Will Travel (2nd favorite western to Rawhide, got both on DVD)
10:00 My father kept CBS on for Gunsmoke (which I believe was his favorite western)
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OMG it's a low thudding pain to remember the Lennon sisters. They weren't bad it's just that Lawrence Welk sticks in my brain. Grandma loved the show so I sat quietly and watched. I'm 75 and I can still remember his accent and accordion:D.
Wasn't Sea Hunt on the same night?
Never the less after the color TV came in the house we used the TV Guide to point out the color shows. Didn't matter what they were as long as they were in color. We became color snubs at that point.
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