[Editor’s Note: With The Historic Strand Theater in downtown Jena reopening this Saturday after a decade-long restoration, we thought it might interest readers for a trip down memory lane to a story about the theater and a glimpse at life in Jena in the 1930s to 1950s. The following article was written in two parts by Jack Morgan Willis as part of his Grass Roots & Cockleburs weekly column and published in the August 6, 2008 and August 13, 2008 editions of The Jena Times newspaper.]