My model railroad layout used to feature a model town I called Toonerville. The town continues to exist as models I have built and/or painted sitting on book shelves and tables.The streets of Toonerville are narrow, but basically book-shelf straight.Some folks who live there are poor. The old woman who lives in a shoe is one of those.The residents of the big house on Mel Gibson Street are relatively rich.But all the residents of Toonerville are plastic people.The plastic people of Toonerville have a movie theater to go to, but The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart is the only movie that plays there. It hasn’t changed in 40 years.There’s also a theater in what used to be Chester Wizenut’s barn, but it is closed for winter and winter has lasted for twenty years in Toonerville.In downtown Toonerville, the clocks never move, and they aren’t even correct twice a day.The Congregational Church was moved downstairs for repairs.Grandma Wortle’s house, Lemon-Sucker Manor, is large and wealthy-looking, but the old lady who lives there is such a miser, she makes Scrooge look like Santa Claus.But Toonerville is a happy place with more than one trolley car, and it makes me smile to go there and chill for a while.
It has played there several times before. Ike Wortle’s film collection gets reused often. He has played the Wizard of Oz sixty times. And yes, though Keith Partridge is now dead, he still sings well for a zombie.
Catch a Falling Star 
The African Queen hasn’t played there yet. Apparently it starts on Monday.
And the Partridge Family is in town. Are they going to appear at the Community Playhouse?
It has played there several times before. Ike Wortle’s film collection gets reused often. He has played the Wizard of Oz sixty times. And yes, though Keith Partridge is now dead, he still sings well for a zombie.