For those wanting to relive the nostalgia of Saturday morning cartoons, the Kenworthy has you covered.
All summer, the Kenworthy has been showing classic cartoons ranging from old ‘Looney Tunes’ cartoons to ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle.’ This Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. is the last opportunity to come out and watch these cartoons. The event is free to the public and all are welcome.
Director of Operations for the Kenworthy, Jamie Hill, started showing the cartoons at the Kenworthy in 2013 after the Saturday Morning Market got moved to Main Street. Normally businesses were closed during the market. However, Hill said the Kenworthy thought, why stay closed when there’s 10,000 people out there?
“We started working with local businesses to sponsor to kind of help us cover our costs so we can provide as a free thing for the community,” Hill said.
With local businesses sponsoring the cartoons from Yarn Underground to the Moscow Music Academy, they are able to work with other local business.
Hill works with Moscow Video Co-Op to get the classic cartoons they play. The earliest cartoons in the selection are from the ‘90s — so no modern cartoons — sticking with the classics.
But just how popular are they? On average, 100 to 150 people attend the Saturday morning cartoons over the three-hour period.
The people who attend vary from kids whose parents are vendors in the market, college students, even people who want a break from the regular market, Hill said.
Kids and adults attending last Saturday’s showing watched ‘Looney Tunes’ and laughed, Hill said, with parents bringing in their kids to have them experience the cartoons they watched growing up.
“You can’t say no to classic cartoons,” said Doug Faust, who was in town for the Washington State University football game. “I love Looney Tunes. I love Porky Pig, right? Especially the black and white ones where he does a surrealistic one from ’33. And that coyote will catch that road runner one day.”
Still hoping to see if the coyote will ever catch the road runner? Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. will be the last showing of these classic cartoons for the summer.
Ryan Hill can be reached at [email protected]