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Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:00 PM

Today in history

By LOUIS REED, local historian

Oct. 17, 1959

• A man who has done everything in the motion picture exhibition except play the piano is preparing to celebrate 30 years behind the projectors.

Charles W. Watts, 614 S. Cherry, began operating a movie projector in the days of the hand crank 20-minute “feature films.”

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