TAMPA, Fla. -- The movie business was always his business.
When Ted Freiwald, 89, was a kid back in Kansas City, Missouri, he recalls watching his first movie with his father. “It cost a nickel to get in for an adult — he picked me up and carried me in,” said Freiwald. “It was Disney’s ‘Snow White.’ That was the first show I ever saw, that I remember, at a movie theater.”
His family moved to West Palm Beach in 1938. Eight years later, he got a job at a local drive-in theater directing parking with the use of a flashlight and an orange cone. “I was only 13 years old and you weren’t even supposed to work,” Freiwald recalls.
