The Feed Store | The Co-Ed is a Loss

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by Ken Mottet

Co-Ed KenThis economy is tough. Tough tough tough. Lack of green can kill a dream. Hell, lack of dough can kill a man. So I can understand the closing(I hope temporarily) of the Co-Ed. Money makes the world go around. And if the money ain't coming in, the doors have got to close. But because the Co-Ed is what it is(a movie house), it deals in dreams and magic and smoke and mirrors. We pretend it doesn't take cash to make it fly. And we are sad when reality gets in the way of the magic trick. My earliest personal memory of that place is 1972, seeing "Snoopy Come Home" with my mother. And we were the only people in the theatre. I felt like Elvis. I felt like my mom was really special. And I still feel that way. My very best wishes are with the Co-Ed. I hope that it can return...somehow. 

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Beach Boys Rule!!

Submitted by Ken Mottet on Wed, 09/19/2012 - 6:42pm.

Bruce:

Thanks for the kind kind words. And I love the Beach Boys story. They did release "The MIU Album" and there is a copy in my basement. These are the kinds of stories that prove my wife's theory--Fairfield IS the center of the known universe. In a couple of weeks there will be an entire "Feed Store" devoted to my love of the Co-Ed. 

Fairfield IS the center of the known universe.

Submitted by Bruce Miller on Wed, 09/19/2012 - 10:53pm.

Yes. See the confirmation, posted 9/13:

http://www.kruufm.com/node/14064

 

The Co-Ed

Submitted by Bruce Miller on Wed, 09/19/2012 - 5:03pm.

Bravo! Excellent post. We share your feelings 100%. One of my Co-Ed memories was (about) 1976, when the Beach Boys were in Fairfield and set up a studio on campus to record an album. I don't know what happened with the album, but I remember sitting in the Co-Ed Theater watching a movie with a friend or two. The Beach Boys and their friends were sitting in front of us. We were practically the only ones there, and I remember thinking- "Here I am in a movie theater in a very small town in Iowa, watching a movie with the Beach Boys."

This I promise- a movie theater will again happen in our wonderful town.

"I'll be back" ~ Ar-nuld