A.C. Lyles, 93 years young, vividly recalls the Western movies he grew up watching. But Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson or Fred Thomson didn’t bring him to Hollywood. Wings did. Actually, a train did. “One-way day coach,” he says. “Two loaves of bread, two jars of peanut butter and a sack of apples, and I was off.” In 1928, Lyles saw the silent WWI epic movie Wings for his 10th birthday at a Paramount theater in Jacksonville, Florida. He loved that film so much he asked the theater man
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