The Last Saturday Morning 16 mm Film Run to Lexington

Ready for the trip to Lexington

For a second, I thought about taking US 68, smoking a cigar, and keeping the windows rolled up, just to recreate EXACTLY what it was like. 

Dickie Mays (old #65) in the middle of Trosper & his grandson, Avery

When I was growing up, Saturday mornings after a ballgame, we would drive to Royal Film Company in Lexington and pick up our 16 mm film from the night before. Those rides were always more fun after a victory. 

This morning was my last ever Saturday morning 16 mm film run to Lexington. I took a bunch of old 16 mm film to be digitized. After the process is completed, the plan is to create a private youtube channel and share it with the old players in those films. 

Lee Glasscock, old #84 (2022 & 1969)

Lee Glasscock was kind enough to bring those to me Wednesday at school. The film is from 1969 thru the early 70's at Boyle County HS. Mr. Mills gave the film to my Dad and Lee in 1990. They were at the 20 year reunion for the class of 1970. My Dad's first Boyle team was 1969 and Lee was a senior. 

While I was making the drive to Lexington, my good friend Chuck Smith called me. There aren't many guys that would understand the significance of what I was doing this morning, but Chuck is definitely one of the few that would get it. It was fun talking about the old days. Those games would go by fast and the games on film were short. They rarely threw the ball and spent much of the game clock in the huddle.  Alot of Chuck's Boyle videos are not real long either, but that is because his teams had a bunch of running clocks. Good grief they were good. 

Boyle lost one game in 1969. It was to Stanford HS. No one in black and gold wants to watch that one. We'll pass that one on to Mr. Patriot, Jonathan Smith. He loves Stanford and Lincoln County football, and has a long history with the programs in his hometown. 

I took the Parkway to Lexington, but I did drive back home on US 68. No cigar, but a bunch of great memories of the best Dad a guy could have.