Topic: LOVELIER THAN LOVELY (Read 23893 times)

bk · « **on:** November 25, 2006, 12:38:27 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you now feel lovelier than lovely and now it is time for you to post until the lovelier than lovely cows come home - they're just watching a DVE (Disgusting Vomit Eruption) right now.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** November 25, 2006, 12:39:39 AM »

And the word of the day is: DAEDAL!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** November 25, 2006, 12:41:40 AM »

And now - Dino at the piano.

singingnymph · « **Reply #3 on:** November 25, 2006, 12:47:49 AM »

Too bad about the hat. I love that hat.

None of the costumes? Not even the Mickey Mouse shirt?

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** November 25, 2006, 01:06:04 AM »

Nope, all gone. That was my own Mickey Mouse shirt, too. In fact, almost all my costumes were my own.

George · « **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2006, 01:16:53 AM »

I have now caught up with all of yesteray's posts. In the morning, I'm planning on going to work for a few hours. We'll see if I actually make it.

After that, I need to go to my sister's (current) house to do a few things there. I'm not sure what she needs me to do...probably install new light fixtures.

After that will be some more DVR watching. After watching all the shows that I watched yesterday, I deleted them. I went from the DVR being 65% filled, down to to 36% filled.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #6 on:** November 25, 2006, 02:25:18 AM »

Crimson Rosella

Tomovoz · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2006, 02:26:29 AM »

Galahs and Bronze Winged Pigeons.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #8 on:** November 25, 2006, 02:32:31 AM »

Isn't a Daedel a spinning top that spins anti clockwise rather than being orthodox.

Michael · « **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2006, 04:25:24 AM »

Montreal had four count them four major department stores! Three of them were within (if memory serves me ) within ten blocks of each other.
All of them were in the downtown core. Only one still exists.

They were Simpson's, Eaton's and Morgan's. Morgan's eventually was renamed The Bay (The Hudson Bay Company). Simpson's was eventually bought out by The Bay and operated as separate entity for a while. Eaton's was eventually run into the ground and bankrupcy by the younger Generation. The Bay is still around. Simpson's and Eaton's buildings are still around but I don't remember what they have become. I had moved away by then.

A picture of the Simpon's Building

The Bay department as it looked when it was Morgan's circa 1890

And as it looks today as the The Bay/ La Baie

Two memories of Eaton's were: that the elevator's were opearated by employees in uniforms. The door was an old accordian type and you see the shaft as you moved up or down. The other was the restaurant on the top floor. Splendily designed in art deco it reminded me of the dinning room's you would see in the old ocean liners. (Memories from movies of course) They had a wonderful lunch and the also had the oh so very proper "afternoon tea". Below is the Eaton's Building.

The fourth was Oglivy's. It was a British compay. It is still a department store type a concept, but the boutiques are owned by different companies. They had two traditions which one still exist today (I believe) is their animated Christmas window. The other one at a certain times of the day (it might have been only once) a man in full highland costume played the bagpipes as he walked through the store.

Below is a pucture of the buidling and their Christmas Window.

Michael · « **Reply #10 on:** November 25, 2006, 04:30:14 AM »

The Eaton's catalogue the year I was born

Michael · « **Reply #11 on:** November 25, 2006, 04:34:26 AM »

And looking for this photo I found out Simpson's was also Simpson's-Sear's. I never knew that!!!

Michael · « **Reply #12 on:** November 25, 2006, 04:41:20 AM »

As I mentioned above these were all the "English" Department stores. There was further east on St. Catherine that catered to Francophone clientele. They no longer exists. I remember visiting them a few times

FJL · « **Reply #13 on:** November 25, 2006, 04:48:46 AM »

TOD: Alexander's at Kings Plaza on Flatbush Ave & Ave U in Brooklyn was my favorite growing up. The people who worked there were very friendly, and they seemed to have just about anything I was looking for at reasonable prices. And they didn't mind having kids hang out in their record department.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 25, 2006, 05:01:19 AM »

I remember THEN CAME BRONSON and used to have an LP by its star Michael Parks!

Lovely boid pics....from DR TOMovOZ!

Back to work today.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 25, 2006, 05:01:39 AM »

yes DR MBARNUM I would like to see the other German westerns!

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #16 on:** November 25, 2006, 05:45:28 AM »

Thanks for the bird photos, Tom. They are beautiful!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #17 on:** November 25, 2006, 05:53:13 AM »

Yes, it must be wonderful living in an avian paradise!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #18 on:** November 25, 2006, 05:54:05 AM »

It's 5:44 a.m., and I am up. Briefly. Needed something for my sinuses...waiting for it to kick in.

This head cold is persistent, I tell ya!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #19 on:** November 25, 2006, 05:56:08 AM »

DR Matth: While last night's episode of "Ghost Whisperer" was a bit unsettling, most shows don't involve physical violence. It's the first time I recall, IIRC, that one of the spirits actually took over a living body in a show.

FJL · « **Reply #20 on:** November 25, 2006, 06:31:27 AM »

Re last night's GHOST WHISPERER - Something about the combination of baseball with supernatural matters moves me so much. This episode moved me as much as FIELD OF DREAMS did, and to an extent DAMN YANKEES had me sobbing as well the last time I saw it. And I'm not even a sports fan.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #21 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:11:06 AM »

Quote from: singingnymph on November 25, 2006, 12:47:49 AM

None of the costumes? Not even the Mickey Mouse shirt?

You didn't even get to keep a naked woman or three?

Edisaurus · « **Reply #22 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:12:42 AM »

Quote from: bk on November 25, 2006, 01:06:04 AM

Nope, all gone. That was my own Mickey Mouse shirt, too. In fact, almost all my costumes were my own.

The jodhpurs, beret, boots and riding crop? Rrrooowwww!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:13:35 AM »

Good morning, all! I have a full day with The Brain. More to follow.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #24 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:14:27 AM »

'Morning, Lar!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #25 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:17:25 AM »

Quote from: JRand56 on November 25, 2006, 05:01:19 AM

I remember THEN CAME BRONSON and used to have an LP by its star Michael Parks!

I had two!

That's one show that hasn't aged well, with its 70's era bad camera work. Wasn't this one of the first series to be shot in a different location every week? I really wanted to be like Bronson when I grew up, but now I see that he was just avoiding responsibility! LOL

Edisaurus · « **Reply #26 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:22:55 AM »

I remember Daedelus from The Mighty Hercules cartoon from the '60's.

"Herc! Herc!" "Trouble! Trouble!" The annoying centaur repeated everything he said. I guess this was a way to save money on your writing staff...or was Herc hard of hearing?

I can still even remember the theme song. *Thanks, BK*!

This is one of those cartoons that we didn't like as kids but watched it anyway.

It was the same with Clutch Cargo. Terrible cartoon, but the human lips on the characters was creepily fascinating. Even the dog had human lips!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #27 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:29:07 AM »

TOD: We moved so much and lived in so many small towns that I rarely went into a department store. My mother was also of the opinion that items were more expensive in department stores so if there was one available, we never shopped there. We did most of our shopping at the PX.

I have vague memories of department stores in New Orleans and Columbus, but probably went there only one or twice. I'd have to ask my mom the names of them. She wasn't the kind of person to just go to a store to enjoy the swankiness---I think it would have made her feel deprived, as she had grown up a doctor's daughter and had most everything she could want...until she was married to a serviceman!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #28 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:32:34 AM »

I've been to Eaton's in Toronto and htought it was wonderful. I bought a sweater there that I held on for years, past its usefulness, because I loved the store so much.

I love to go to big department stores, the few that are left. I feel like that's an era that I pretty much missed out on. In Atlanta, all we have left is Macy's, and since there are plenty of Macy's at the malls, people rarely venture to the downtown store.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #29 on:** November 25, 2006, 07:35:59 AM »

I was very impressed by the shopping center in San Fransico that had the curved escalators. And I love the old wooden escalators in the old part of Harrod's in London.

Harrod's is a place I just love to go to look at the stuff, whether I buy anything or not. But I also feel like a tourista looky-loo if I don't buy anything and I always feel like the staff is summing me up as much. Well, they're right! We usually do get some lunch there.

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