Here it was a one dollar, 2 movie Saturday matinee for the boys, while the girls and Mom's shopped. Shoot 'em up westerns, gladiator movies, and horror movies you'd already seen on late night TV. As the crowd averaged about eleven years old, there was more violence in the audience than on the screen. The theater was half empty before the first movie ended. You prepared for getting thrown out by bringing a sock stuffed with change to hit the slot car track/arcade across the street, or stuff yourself full of greasy food at the local teen hang out, while pestering the doofuses trying to impress the older girls.
Unless you got spotted doing something you really weren't supposed to be doing, Mom ignored you wandering the streets until it was time to go home. Better you pestering other people than her.