Annette Funicello has died. Te Bodda Getta Box Office pays tribute with Plainsman ads for two of her movies: The classic How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (showing at the Auburn-Opelika Drive In late July, 1966), in which she starred as Dee Dee, and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (showing at the Auburn-Opelika Drive In [...]

In early March 1967, the War Eagle Theatre was doing what it did best: titillating the Auburn male, this time (as it had and would again many times) with cartoonish curves from the Russ Meyer ouevre—specifically Faster Pussycat and Motor Psycho. Check out more Bodda Getta Box Office posts here. Previously: ‘Night Of The Living [...]

Don’t worry, 1973 Auburn kids — this Halloween Fear Show showing of Night Of The Living Dead is rated PG. Your parents can’t stop you. Previously: “What’s Up, Tiger Lilly” Related: “Psycho” comes to Auburn. … Keep Reading: * These 1986 A-Day Photos will Bo your mind * A complete set of 1988 Phil Neel’s [...]

Our third Bodda Gett Box Office installment takes us back to this same calendar weekend during the last season Auburn football started 1-6. Here’s what  The Plainsman says was playing in the Loveliest Village from October 24-27, 1952… which happened to be the same weekend “four rows of Tulane students came close to out-yelling the [...]

All that stuff I said? Well, this one might have made it regardless of location—the word Tiger is in the title, for crying out loud, and the ad has China Lee is in a tiger suit. I could have found an Auburn excuse to slip it on TWER if I had to, Woody Allen style—Miss [...]

I go through The Plainsman. That’s what I do. Get to know it. Process it. Find its freckles. Inhale the old way and hold my breath for as long as I can. (It’s a disease.) But sometimes, I don’t find much. No new Shug secrets. No new almost-had-a-mascots. Sometimes I walk out of the library [...]