Thanks Bill Lee (Warwick HS -- '54 -- NC) and John London (Warwick HS - '57 - VA), for stirring memories of Hilton Village. From 1956-'58 we lived in the Sedgefield development across Jefferson Avenue, easy access to the Village Theater, Hilton Pier, and the Scout Troop at the Baptist Church (Thursday nights), well, I think they were Baptists. The church was located on the north side of Main Street where the Colony Inn apparently occupied the original footprint.

My Aunt Rena Tillery often handled both the ticket booth and helped with the refreshment stand at the Village Theater. That isn't her in the ticket booth in John's picture. Love that they actually "dressed" for work as well as going out to a movie. If I happened to be there at the right time, Aunt Rena would comp me both the ducat and a bag of popcorn. 

Some of you may recall Aunt Rena's two grandsons, Randolph and Roy Trousdell, who were champion athletes at Warwick High in the '50s. Bill and John also may have bought ice cream from my grandmother, Elizabeth Goodson, who worked the counter in the High's Store in the Village for several years. Good times.