My Old Town (1948)

John Nesbitt: Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : This is my old town as it looks today: 800 automobiles in on Saturday and 30 minute parking limits anywhere in the business district, 614 electric street lamps, 2 moving picture theaters, and 31 jukeboxes. It's booming! But, there are plenty of headaches too: the rising divorce rate, the black uncertainties that are loose in our world, the atom bomb, fear of the future, and its not hard to work up a first class nervous breakdown, even here. An then, you sometimes get to wishing that you can chuck all our modern conveniences into the ash can and run away. And go back home to old town - the way it was, only yesterday.

• Narrator : Spring is the shortest season, isn't it. But, you always remember it the longest of them all.

• Narrator : In the beginning, in the Spring, there was always something exciting and unknown waiting. It lay just across the meadow or just over the hill.