"Young Couple Visits Commerce Movie Theatre"
This image was taken in 1944. The year before, in 1943, E.T. (as Texas A&M University-Commerce was titled at the time) was chosen out of many colleges "to host a unit of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and a company of men from the Army Specialized Training Program." The couple shown above is unknown, but this image does much to tell us about who they might have been. The young woman is a member of the WAAC, and the young man is a member of the ASTP. Here we see that they were able to enjoy some time off from their extensive training to see a moving picture.
The theatre where they are posing was located in downtown Commerce.
References
“WAAC and ASTP Students.” 1944. Digital Collections: Historic ET Collection. Jpg. January 30, 2014.
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