20 Years Ago

“Hairspray” was at the Providence Performing Arts Center.

The Pawtuxet Village Café had a breakfast special of two eggs with toast and home fries for $1.99. A meatloaf dinner was $4.99.

The Community Players was offering “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Warwick residents John Casill, Erin Anderson, Bethany Giammarco and Steve Pacheco and Cranston resident Elizabeth
Bell.

“Elf” starring Will Ferrell was a good children’s movie. “Love Actually ”starring Hugh Grant was a “Lovely British Romantic Comedy."

”Driving Miss Daisy” starring Joan Dillenback and Ricardo Pitts-Wiley was at the Jewish Community Center.

“Grease” was at Academy Players

40 Years Ago

Remember Driftwood in Pawtuxet Village? They offered a delicious leg of lamb dinner for $6.95 and whole belly fried clams for $5.95.

Tom Cruise starred in “All the Right Moves." Sirley McLaine, Jack Nicholson, and Debra Winger starred in the tearjerker, “Terms of Endearment."

Mary Steenburgen starred in “Cross Creek."

The late Richard Kneeland starred in Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck” at Trinity.

Track 84 on Kilvert St. in Warwick had all-you-could-eat pasta on Sundays for $1.50.

Howard Johnson’s had their Happy as a Clam Plate for $3.95.

Barker Playhouse presented “Anything Goes."

Rick Springfield was at the Providence Civic Center.

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” was at the NewportDinner Theatre.