Author Archive: Retro

After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.

An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his battling parents. The two become friends and inspire the rest of the gang to put on a show to make money from neighborhood kids. But the chimp has his own idea and runs off creating havoc all over town until chased down by the local cops.

Mickey is taken away from his Uncle Pat to live with his wealthy Aunt Kate. Mickey’s new life as a rich kid proves to be an unhappy one until Uncle Pat and the gang pay a visit one afternoon.

Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty salon, where Pineapple works and proceed to make shambles of it. The police arrive and arrest them, but Grandma (Florence Lee) comes to their rescue.

Joe, the new boy in town, is initiated into the gang’s secret club. But the proceedings are interrupted when a couple of auto thieves hide out in the kids’ meeting place.

The kids mistake Miss Crabtree’s brother for a potential boyfriend, and plot to discourage him.

Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a large vacant lot. Mickey’s got big plans for expansion when surveyors show up to begin work on a factory. The gang travels by donkey cart to the office of Henry Mills, President of Pan American Export Company, to protest. Henry, in his 60s, is still a boy at heart: he has his chauffeur stop the car so he can join a sandlot game. He bails on a meeting with his board of directors, going with the kids to the factory site where he stops the workers and helps our gang add more rides. The directors follow him, and they get put to work. Will they ever have their meeting?

The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a “movie,” which is really a clever stage performance.