Remember the first threater you saw It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in?

I was eleven and visiting my uncle who lived in Whitehall, Ohio--on the east side of Columbus. Often, during a visit, he would take me to see a movie. We went to a drive-in not far away (it might have been one of those located on East Main Street) and we took the slightly younger kid who lived in the apartment next door. My most vivid memory of that night was that the kid, Steve, sat in the back seat behind us and laughed throughout the entire film. I am not talking normal laughing. He was guffawing endlessly, as if it was intentional. It nearly destroyed the experience. But we got through his exaggerated belly laughs and enjoyed the film. The performances of Dick Shawn and Jonathan Winters, in particular, were tremendously funny to me at that age.

My parents took me into the city (NYC) and it was playing at a theater near Columbus Circle, oh so long ago, I would say maybe 1971. Such a great memory.