There are places where the past is not past. It keeps circling back around. Many towns in America are like that. Petaluma, California, continually celebrates a magical time when kids showed up to shoot a low budget movie called “American Graffiti.” It launched some big name careers and boosted an unknown director, George Lucas, into an orbit that would lead to his epic — Star Wars. History in Petaluma is never far, far way. Sadly, this town — so tied to movie history — lost its last picture show. Kids could have just hopped into a car. Their moms would have driven them to the movies in another town.
“Oh, no!” Madison Webb looked stricken. “You’re not supposed to go with your parents!”
So, the teens created a business plan that would reopen their theater.
