Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 09, 2012, 12:49:48 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've strummed the autoharp whilst reading the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently making beautiful MOOsic on the autoharp.
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And the word of the day is: CATACHRESIS!
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Morning all.
That is all.
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good morning to all
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Here are some pictures from DC.
As part of our stay at the Mayflower our friend arranged to have champagne, strawberries and chocolate dipping sauce delivered to the room. Here I am posing with the goodies
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Here I am on the DC Metro going up a VERY long escalator
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We went to the Lincoln Memorial and here I am standing in front of the amazing statue
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We did a lot of Lincoln viewing. The next day we went to
Lincoln's Cottage (http://lincolncottage.org/)
During his presidency he went there during the summer months. Washington in the summer can be horribly hot and humid and this house, just 3 miles from the White House was considered a retreat. It was similar to what Camp David is now. They have a statue of "Old Bob" which is Lincoln's horse and Lincoln and this is me in between the two.
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Here I am taking a much needed nap. I didn't know this picture was being taken.
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tod
All the movie theaters, book stores, bars and nightclubs (with a couple exceptions) I went to in my formative years are all gone. Especially the cinemas that were the movie palaces that were eventually made into multiplexes, rep houses and then they simply closed and converted into other retail spaces or demolished. I miss them most of all.
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Here I am visiting my good friend Kermit the Frog in the Smithsonian.
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Great photos Ben!!
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The first Washington Monument was a Greek inspired statue, not the obelisk we know today. It's also in the Smithsonian along with Kermit and the Ruby Slippers, although the Ruby Slippers have just left for London for a six week exhibition. Here is a shot of Washington looking Greek.
Ruby Slippers in London (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/smithsonian-holds-farewell-for-dorothys-ruby-slippers-departing-for-6-week-loan-to-london/2012/10/09/b08bdb9e-11e5-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html)
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Here is a display artifact showing the Statue's first display outdoors in DC.
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Here is a post-dinner shot outside of Bistro D'Oc. Anthony is taking the picture and these are our dinner friends.
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And finally, here is a shot of Anthony and me in front of the Fountain in Dupont Circle. You can't see much of the Fountain but it's a nice shot anyway.
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Thanks, Mike!
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Good morning, all! I have my eye appointment at 10 am, on 21st and Fifth Avenue. It's a schlep, so I'll leave here around 8:45. Since I'm pretty certain he will put drops in my eyes, I'll be out of focus for several hours. I'll leave the office, grab a taxi and head for Toyland, where I'll continue to work on my charts for ROBERTA. As son as I feel comfortable that my eyes are no longer dilated, I'll head home.
DR Ben, thanks for the photos! They are quite wonderful.
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Good morning, all.
Great photos, Ben. The trip looks wonderful.
Happy Tuesday vibes, all.
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TOD: I am going to have to write this in bits and pieces, as time allows.
I grew up in a suburb of Louisville called St. Matthews. At that time, it was sort of the end of town on that side,but it has grown extensively in the intervening years, past the shopping malls and straight into Middletown, which used to seem a world away. (The same is happening here in Texas, with the divide between San Antonio and Austin getting smaller all the time, as places spring up along the highway, filling in the gaps.)
Favorite movie theater: The Vogue. I have written about this before, but it was more than a mile from home and I wasn't allowed to walk there until in my mid-teens. At that time, it had become one of the two revival theaters in town (the Uptown was the other), and it was where I saw plenty of Bergman, Fellini and even Hal Prince's two movies regularly entwined with Hollywood's best. Saw plenty of Minnelli musicals, the Greer Garson-Laurence Olivier "Pride and Prejudice," "The Jazz Singer" and some wonderful silent movies. A ticket was only $1.50, so I could go more often and just lose myself in whatever was playing. Plus, they never carded, so I saw stuff like "1900," with all its sex and violence, when I was 14 or 15.
The sign is still up, but the place is now a store that sells something like home furnishings.
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What terrific photos....thanks for sharing DR BEN!!!
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And it's time to see the doctor. I'll check in from Toyland.
I also got this morning another rave for EILEEN from the Library of Congress.
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And it's time to see the doctor. I'll check in from Toyland.
I also got this morning another rave for EILEEN from the Library of Congress.
And I got this morning my notice of EILEEN having shipped from Amazon.
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Good morning, all.
Great photos, Ben. That sounds like an ideal weekend trip. I haven't seen Washington since I was a kid, which is unforgivable.
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I'll have to go E&T for most of the day because of many many things that must be done, and I'll be back this evening to ketchup.
Speaking of E&T...
Where is DR Danise? - Hasn't it been a week or more?
Where is DR Jeanne? - There's an L.A. voice we haven't heard from in a while.
Where is DR JoseSPiano? - I know, My Fair Lady, but ... E&T?
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In the notes, BK says, about Lotte Lenya: "...one of the great Bond villains, Rosa Klebb and her scenes are electrifying and brilliant. It’s too bad she didn’t do a lot, film-wise."
As a kid seeing this, I didn't appreciate who she was. Now I watch FROM RUSSIA and see as seasoned a pro as anyone, and have to wonder where that seasoning came from with so little film experience. Electrifying is the word. She always was, of course, on records, and I have to assume on stage. I will have to find the other movies she's in (I have 3 PENNY). I don't think I've seen THE APPOINTMENT, or either of the two Tennessee Williams ones.
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TOD
I have two hometowns (Columbus and Fort Lauderdale), a college town (Cleveland), and a year and a half spent in and near Chicago -- all of which were wonderful places, even if I didn't think so at the time. For the purpose of the TOD, I have to choose Fort Lauderdale as the most meaningful in terms of the formative years there -- sixth grade through high school. Back shortly with that.
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Ben, thanks for all the great pics!!!!
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I grew up in Phoenix. I'm still in Phoenix-- in fact just blocks from the house in which I grew up. The drugstores with soda fountains are gone; the downtown where we'd walk and windowshop (the same downtown Phoenix in the opening shots of "Psycho") is long gone. Some places frommy childhood exist but not many (which is both good and bad, I suppose).
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TOD:
In Seattle, there was the Roycroft Theater on 19th. Every Saturday, they would have a kids' show: a serial, cartoons and a feature. I would go every weekend. The one feature I saw there that has always been a favorite was BROKEN ARROW with Jimmy Stewart.
Then, when I was old enough to take the bus by myself (22 years old, I think)... ::)
I'd go downtown on Saturdays and see movies at the Orpheum, Liberty, Coliseum, Roosevelt, Music Hall, etc. All these theaters are now gone. :'(
My favorite restaurant was owned by my uncle. It was called Pancho's, and it made the greatest ground beef sandwich in the world. :)
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Two!
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TOD: My town was Cincinnati. The biggest way it's changed is there is a lot less of downtown. We used to have four or five department stores (one of which was Pogue's...probably a relation, but not one I would be inheriting any money from), a half dozen really big movie palaces, most clustered around Fountain Square, the center and heart of downtown, and several bookstores. Only one of those bookstores survives today...Ohio Bookstore, it is now owned by a man who used to work there ever since I starting coming in it at about 12-13. Until a year or so ago, his main employee was another man who was a few years older than me who used to work there (he reitred). It is a wonderful old bookstore on Main Street, with five floors of books. You'd have to go down an aisle and turn on the light switches. It was also un-air-conditioned andcould get very hot in the summer. A few doors up the street from them was Neville's Antiques run by a very lovely elderly couple who also sold books, and further up the street was Betrand Smith's Acres of Books, another used bookstore of five or six floors of books. Years later, I was delighted to find a Betrand Smith's Acres of Books in Long Beach, California. Apparently, Mr. Smith sold the store in Cincy (or handed it off to relatives) and moved to California and set up another delightfully cluttered bookstore. Alas, both Betrand Smiths are now gone with the wind. My favourite place to eat in Cincy was THE WHEEL which was a cafeteria. There was also another place I and friends would go to when we went over to Cincy for book-hunting jaunts, called the Luau, which was an all-you-could-eat place for a couple of bucks. I also remember Wulitzer where we kids took music lessons, the electric train display GE used to set up every Christmas, and the hippy, bohemian vibe of Mt. Adams up on the hill overlooking Downtown and near Eden Park which was full of wonderful museums and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, which is still my favourite regional theatre.
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In the notes, BK says, about Lotte Lenya: "...one of the great Bond villains, Rosa Klebb and her scenes are electrifying and brilliant. It’s too bad she didn’t do a lot, film-wise."
As a kid seeing this, I didn't appreciate who she was. Now I watch FROM RUSSIA and see as seasoned a pro as anyone, and have to wonder where that seasoning came from with so little film experience. Electrifying is the word. She always was, of course, on records, and I have to assume on stage. I will have to find the other movies she's in (I have 3 PENNY). I don't think I've seen THE APPOINTMENT, or either of the two Tennessee Williams ones.
Lenya is fantastic in THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS STONE!
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Great photos, Ben! Looks like you had a wonderful honeymoon.
I don't suppose G. Washington would have been very happy with the statue of him looking like he is just out of the shower.
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Greetings from Toyland. The pressure in my eyes is back to normal so Dr Moazed and I are both very happy.
Back to the charts!
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I grew up in Scottsdale, AZ, before Scottsdale became "Scottsdale." My house is 50 years old. This town started to really grow in the 50s and 60s. As Scottsdale spread north it became upper income. The people up north refer to us as "SoSco" now, since we are working class people and they don't want to be associated with us. We make sure we say we are from south Scottsdale, so people we meet don't think we are from the fancy part of town. Although I don't suppose mistaking me for an upper class person is very likely.
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TOD:
Restaurants: We didn't eat out much when I was a kid. That was an unnecessary luxury since Mom is a good cook. But when we did eat out, it was something that she could not or would not fix. That usually meant Chinese, and it most often meant the Oriental House, which was just up the street from the house. It had one of those red-lacquered interiors, so popular among Chinese restaurants at the time, and was made even more ornate by the addition of Asian statuary, scrolls and the like.
We were friends with the owners at the time, the Tengs, who were Japanese, not Chinese. Both of my older sisters worked there in high school. I worked back in the kitchen one day. They would have hired me, except I was only 14 and it wasn't legal. So, my one day's pay was off the books.
The food was typical Chinese-America fare, but it was always well prepared. Me, with my sweet tooth, developed a love for sweet and sour dishes, though I also liked egg foo yung and any of the shrimp dishes.
One of the highlights of the year was that Tengs would invite us to their customer Christmas party where we were treated to a multi-course feast with dishes such as shark-fin soup and Chinese spare ribs.
The Oriental House is still open, though ownership has changed through the years. It is now a buffet, and my parents still walk up there on occasion to treat themselves to this food they would never otherwise get.
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TOD - Fort Lauderdale
Its small but wonderful old downtown is now a horrible new downtown. Nothing's left except the shells of little more than one block of buildings that housed some of the smaller stores, and the one large block-size department store, Burdines, that was turned into government offices years ago.
MOVIE THEATERS: The Florida and Warnor downtown, the Sunrise Cinemas I & II, the Coral Ridge, the Plantation, and the Gateway (mentioned a couple of days ago) are, quite literally, places of my dreams. I still try to return to them. Only the Gateway still exists -- long ago divided into four theaters, and the vertical component of the original signage is long gone -- but it still exists, and that's the only thing there that does.
We had to drive down to Miami or Miami Beach for most road show engagements. Those were always very special occasions, usually done on a Sunday afternoon.
BOOK & RECORD STORES: The main one was Gaul's Books and Records whose original store was downtown next to the Florida Theater, and they also had a newer store in one of the shopping centers that I believe was more like an early mall. A piano and organ store in another shopping center had a nice record selection, as did the Burdines Department Store and Britt's, a new department store in one of the shopping centers. I remember one other record store in another shopping center. In those days, certain other stores such as the larger drugstores and some electronics stores very often maintained a small record department. But those small selections were good ones -- they carried things that are real collectibles today.
My first real book store was actually a downtown newsstand, a fairly large store full of comic books, magazines, and paperbacks. A number of my favorite movie tie-in paperbacks were found there, and on the revolving paperback racks in drugstores. Going into any such store, I always looked for the paperbacks. I'm even remembering a small mom-and-pop market that had paperbacks worth finding.
Our little trips to Miami Beach for road show movies led me to discovering some of the nice book and record stores Maimi had to offer, and I soon began taking a bus down there just to browse and buy a few things myself, and later got to drive the family car to Miami for that and to attend a few plays and concerts.
LIVE THEATER: Fort Lauderdale got the Parker Playhouse in the mid-1960s, where I saw Ethel Merman in "Call Me Madam" and a few other things that came around. More was to be found at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, such as "Luv", "Stop the World", John Raitt in "Carousel", Ann Sothern in "Glass Menagerie", etc. Other than that, my introduction to live theater in those years was the high school and community theater plays and musicals, and I eventually began playing piano in some of those.
FAVORITE EATERIES: The soda fountain or lunch counter section in various drug and five-and-dime stores, the greatest being one downtown drugstore whose plate of onion rings I remember to this day and hold all others to. Very few come close.
Royal Castle -- a mostly southern chain (at one point there was one in Cleveland), similar to but a little different from White Castle, and I would kill to have it back.
The cafeterias -- Many Sunday dinners and the occasional weekday meal. They were everywhere in those days.
Pancake houses -- I think an early one was called Uncle John's, and there were a few others before International House of Pancakes came along (actually, I think my first one of those was in my college years in Cleveland).
Wolfie's -- one of the great South Florida deli/coffee shops. Favorite location was in Miami Beach, and they had one in a shopping center in Fort Lauderdale.
Lum's -- which showed up here and there around the country, but I didn't know that then. In high school a bunch of us loved to go there for a Lumburger with cheese and to hang out for a bit on the small front patio after a movie or Junior Theater rehearsal or whatever, enjoying our Cokes in a place that actually had a bar.
Department store "tea rooms" and such -- Wherever we lived, it was always a special treat to be taken to one of these.
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And the word of the day is: CATACHRESIS!
And The Song Of The Day Is: CIVILIZATION
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Addendum, with a tip o' the hat to DR John G.:
I so miss "real" Chinese restaurants -- and yes, usually with red interiors of one kind or another.
I was taken to my first Chinese meal by high school friends. I loved it from the very first, and boy did I think I was sophisticated. It would still be a few years before my parents even started trying Chinese.
Sweet and sour dishes, yes, absolutely.
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DR Charles Pogue, thank you for the Cincinnati memories. I never lived there but have gotten to know it pretty well from years of visits since my parents moved there some forty years ago.
I did manage to see a few great motion pictures downtown before it all disappeared. I loved Willis Music, for both music and records. The department stores were wonderful. I finally got into Ohio Bookstore a few years ago, and before that I was inside Acres of Books just once very briefly. Living in L.A., I got down to the one in Long Beach a few times. But back in those years my appreciation for books was fairly superficial in many ways and I just didn't appreciate what was around me.
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ChasSmith, while I envy you seeing Ethel in "Call Me Madam," I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around Ann Southern in "Glass Menagerie." Of course, I paid to see a heavily wigged Howard Keel and Jane Powell in a bus-and-truck stage version of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." And who knows how many folks like Van Johnson and Imogene Coca on the dinner theater circuit in shows I can barely remember. "Twice Around the Garden"?
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Good Morning. Two dogs to the vet today for check ups and shots, etc etc. Pork Roast in the crock pot with cream of celery soup. That's all so far
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DR Ben the photos are wonderful. I saw monuments I didn't know existed. :)
Those escalator's at the metro really are something especially when they break down.
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Tuesday
morning afternoon greetings! I've been up since a little before 8, but have had a full morning. Just as I was finishing my breakfast, Rob came in for some mail that had been delivered here. We visited for a bit, then I had to get ready for an appointment at the senior center to report on the grants research I've done for them. Rob was still here when I got back and the 3 of us are going to have lunch together in about an hour.
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TOD - Detroit, Michigan
Not a suburb - I grew up in the city and loved it. We moved there from Portland, Oregon, when I was 2 and a half and my Dad was transferred by General Motors. We lived on the northwest side and my sister and I graduated 9 years apart from Cody High School. Downtown was fabulous with the now-imploded landmark J. L. Hudson department store. Throughout high school, my friend Eleanor and I often spent our Saturdays downtown when she had medical appointments. We'd go to Hudson's dining room for lunch and browse the beautiful displays. Our second favorite place for lunch was Victor Lim's, a Chinese restaurant on Grand Circus Park, a beautiful traffic circle surrounded by office buildings. My first eye doctor was in the David Whitney Building.
I loved the venerable institutions - Wayne State University (especially their Hilberry Classic Theater), Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Public Library, etc. During my high school years, 1965-68, our drama club got tickets ($2.25) to the Fisher Theater for all the Broadway touring companies. Also in The Golden Tower of the Fisher Building was WJR radio, which I still miss for voices like J. P. McCarthy, Ted Strasser, Mike Whorf, and Karl Haas.
Summer of 1967, between my junior and senior years of high school, Detroit erupted with racial violence and has never been the same. My parents, along with a lot of others, moved to the 'burbs as soon as I graduated. I've only been back to the old neighborhood a few times, the last in 1998 to drive Rob (then age 12) past Mom's childhood home and schools. He was stunned, thinking his mother had grown up in the ghetto.
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Wonderful D.C. pics, DR Ben.
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DR Ginny, I was in Detroit for just a couple of days as a kid, and for one evening in 1968 when a few of us attending the Meadowbrook summer music festival near Rochester drove in to see "2001" in Cinerama at the Summit Theater. Over the years, through various sources and references, I have come to believe that Detroit had, in every respect, one of the greatest downtowns EVER.
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TOD:
I grew up in Camden, NJ. My family lived on a side street off of a major shopping/business street, Mt Ephraim Avenue. My favorite haunts were the 5 and 10 (with its terrific toy section), the two pharmacies (both with huge magazine and comic book racks), and the Variety store (which had candy, soda, ice cream along with a rack of old comics.)
My movie theatre of choice was the Crescent Theatre where we kids went for our Saturday or Sunday matinees. For some reason, my parents would never step foot in the place, so when they took us out to the movies it was either to the Star-Lite Drive In or to one of the large movie houses in downtown Camden.
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DR Ginny, I was in Detroit for just a couple of days as a kid, and for one evening in 1968 when a few of us attending the Meadowbrook summer music festival near Rochester drove in to see "2001" in Cinerama at the Summit Theater. Over the years, through various sources and references, I have come to believe that Detroit had, in every respect, one of the greatest downtowns EVER.
Yes, it was amazing, DR ChasSmith, and I still miss it...
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I grew up in Coon Rapids, MN. Nothing more need be said.
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In the notes, BK says, about Lotte Lenya: "...one of the great Bond villains, Rosa Klebb and her scenes are electrifying and brilliant. It’s too bad she didn’t do a lot, film-wise."
As a kid seeing this, I didn't appreciate who she was. Now I watch FROM RUSSIA and see as seasoned a pro as anyone, and have to wonder where that seasoning came from with so little film experience. Electrifying is the word. She always was, of course, on records, and I have to assume on stage. I will have to find the other movies she's in (I have 3 PENNY). I don't think I've seen THE APPOINTMENT, or either of the two Tennessee Williams ones.
Lenya is fantastic in THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS STONE!
I was about the write this as well! And I love her as Pirate Jenny on the THREEPENNY OPERA recording.
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Mooresville, Indiana
Yes, home of John DIllinger, and Paul Hadley - creator of the Indiana State Flag.
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When I saw the word "Autoharp" in the notes, I immediately remembered my young school days and the music teacher having an autoharp. So, I went to Amazon and priced them, and even with the "prime" status, it's too expensive. So I remembered that I have an autoharp app on my iPad. $300 vs $1.99 - and it doesn't go out of tune or stuff like that. So, there you go.
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DR Dan (the Man) reminds me of another thing I'd intended to include: the drive-ins. I think as a family, we went to those more than anything. The Lauderdale, The Federal, The Hi-Way, The Davie Blvd. Drive-In, and a few others more distant. The memories of those are ALMOST as precious as those of the theaters.
And speaking of drive-ins, the eatery kind, usually with car-hop service -- A&W (site of one of my Proustian Madeleines), and others which were not chains, just wonderful places unique to the area.
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We had a drive-in near the house. I seem to recall vaguely images from a double feature of "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" with "The Ten Commandments." Go figure.
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I just went to the mailbox, and I only wish every day could be like this one, with wonderful packages.
First, the Universal Monsters Blu-ray set from the UK finally arrived, so tonight is CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - in 3D. At last! I saw it once at the Lafayette and the 3D was fine, but the print was quite worn and in the traditionally wrong aspect ratio. Tonight, baby. Tonight.
Next up ... Kritzerland! The Rat Race! I know this is going to be some great listening.
Last and certainly not least, a surprise package from our own DR Elmore -- a new book called "Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of THE DEVILS". I don't think I'd even heard this was in the works! What a treat. Thank you, from one Devils-worshipper to another!
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The town where I "grew up" was Greenville SC, where I lived with my parents from 1957 (I was age 9) until I entered the Navy in 1970. My experience with downtown Greenville really started when I was in junior high school, because that school was on the north side of "downtown". I'd ride to work with my mother (who worked in a bank) and walk to the school (about a 10-minute walk down, and then up, a street that must have been about 6-8 city blocks long).
My weekend forays into town alone began when I was in 9th grade when I was allowed to go into town to the movies. There were several movie house on "Main Street" -- the Carolina Theater and the Fox Theater were first-run houses. Carolina showed films from 20th-Fox, Columbia, Paramount and some Warner Brothers. The Fox showed Disney, Universal and some Warner Brothers. In a different section of town was "The Plaza" which showed MGM and Paramount (and some Warner Brothers). Two second-run houses -- The Paris and The Center -- were both on Main Street a block down from the Fox (which was a block down from the Carolina, which was on the "upper end" of Main Street's business district) -- showed double features of films that had seen their initial runs and/or were reissued (not major reissues, though).
Between the Carolina and the Fox was a magazine shop where I discovered copies of Life Magazine all the way back to its inception...copies available for purchase. Further downtown -- about 10-12 blocks from the Carolina was Mary's Record Shop, the most "expensive" shop in town, there mono recordings of LPs went for about $6.99 each. I never bought anything from Mary's, but it was fun to go there because they let you take records into booths and play them.
There were various five-and-ten stores, such as Woolworth's and Kress ... each of them sold records, too (in addition to candy and tropical fish!!!). Drugstores also had record bins with discounted (cut-out) records. I found 45 rpm MGM soundtrack recordings in those bins.
Still occupying the same space in downtown Greenville, just off Main Street in the middle of town, was a steak house that was incredible. My parents would take me there every now and again (the only "better" steaks in town were the ones my father grilled). It was called Charlie's Steak House and Charlie had the most incredible steak sauce I ever tasted.
The Greenville Public Library during those years was also on Main Street ... on the upper end a couple of blocks past the Carolina Theater. While this was not part of the business district, there was a National Guard Armory between the end of the business district and the library. I spent many hours in that library scouring the stacks of magazines published from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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I'm up and got the beauty sleep I really needed, albeit with some really peculiar dreams.
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With all these beautiful memory posts we're still on page two? Two pages?
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Piano tuner will be here in one hour.
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Page three? Three pages?
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I am enjoying reading the home town posts.....
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Another favorite Detroit place - The Masonic Temple. It's auditorium was where I saw Peter, Paul, and Mary a couple of times, The Kingston Trio, and Bette Midler on her first concert tour when Barry Manilow was her pianist and Melissa Manchester one of her back-up singers.
(http://themasonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Masonic-Exterior-6.jpg)
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P.S. to TOD:
I didn't mean to skip over the United Artists films. They were also mostly shown at the Carolina Theater, but the Plaza would also get them, too.
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Here's the interior of the Masonic theater. If these photos are putting others into widescreen, I'll delete them...
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Great photos, Ginny. Love those old theaters.
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And I am home. I've been dealing with a plethora of emails: the Man From Philadelphia and I will be guests on a New Jersey radio show called Dress Circle on WWFM (http://www.wwfm.org/). The date has to be set.
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As much as I loved seeing shows there, the Fisher Theatre lacks a bit of grandeur:
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But the outer lobby of the Fisher more than makes up for the interior:
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And I am home. I've been dealing with a plethora of emails: the Man From Philadelphia and I will be guests on a New Jersey radio show called Dress Circle on WWFM (http://www.wwfm.org/). The date has to be set.
Ooo, I hope we get to hear it!
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Piano tuner is very late - he'll be here in ten minutes but now I'm stuck here until at least one-thirty.
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And I am home. I've been dealing with a plethora of emails: the Man From Philadelphia and I will be guests on a New Jersey radio show called Dress Circle on WWFM (http://www.wwfm.org/). The date has to be set.
Ooo, I hope we get to hear it!
Excellent!
I see "Listen Live" on their web page, DR Ginny.
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Am I missing someone? I just noticed that Ricky Martin, Paul Rudd and Matthew Broderick are the only known names outside of theater circles currently on Broadway. Could that explain why "Nice Work" made more than $1 million at the box office last week?
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Just saw this:
Howard H. Scott, who was part of the team at Columbia Records that introduced the long-playing vinyl record in 1948 before going on to produce albums with the New York Philharmonic, Glenn Gould, Isaac Stern and many other giants of classical music, died on Sept. 22 in Reading, Pa. He was 92...
http://goo.gl/xLlzA
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I didn't do a very good job of going E&T today. Looks like tomorrow instead.
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I don't suppose G. Washington would have been very happy with the statue of him looking like he is just out of the shower.
ROTFLOL!
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Greetings from Toyland. The pressure in my eyes is back to normal so Dr Moazed and I are both very happy.
Back to the charts!
GREAT NEWS!!!
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And now I am off to Salem to have my daughter accuse my neighbors of witchcraft so that they will be hanged and I can purchase their property at bargain prices.
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I grew up in Scottsdale, AZ, before Scottsdale became "Scottsdale." My house is 50 years old. This town started to really grow in the 50s and 60s. As Scottsdale spread north it became upper income. The people up north refer to us as "SoSco" now, since we are working class people and they don't want to be associated with us. We make sure we say we are from south Scottsdale, so people we meet don't think we are from the fancy part of town. Although I don't suppose mistaking me for an upper class person is very likely.
This is interesting to me. My only experience with Scottsdale was during a company trip which included spouses. We stayed at one of the posh "ranch" hotels. While the surrounding neighborhoods were nice I don't recall over sized homes.
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TOD - Detroit, Michigan
I've only been back to the old neighborhood a few times, the last in 1998 to drive Rob (then age 12) past Mom's childhood home and schools. He was stunned, thinking his mother had grown up in the ghetto.
;D I was also very surprised to find how beautiful areas of Detroit were. One of my favorite activities I did while living in Bloomfield Hills was going on house tours. I toured some beautiful old Detroit homes.
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Great photos, Ginny. Love those old theaters.
Ditto!
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And now I am off to Salem to have my daughter accuse my neighbors of witchcraft so that they will be hanged and I can purchase their property at bargain prices.
;D Have fun.
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Strange day at work. But work has been done. That is good.
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Oh, my, I sat down in my recliner and fell asleep for about an hour...
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Lucky you.
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This has been one screwed up afternoon! Nothing is going as planned. I may go to bed and hope tomorrow is a better day.
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Okay, how can we still be on page three? Really.
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Piano is tuned and he did some work on the hammers and knuckles because there were action problems. Two hours he was here. I had some tuna sandwiches for lunch right here, because he took so long.
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Then at three-thirty I went to the mail place, deposited the annoying mail in the trash and was nauseated to find that my amazon package was not there yet - thank you Ontrac, truly the worst ever and I'm going to be calling amazon and railing on about it and will tell them I'll stop ordering unless it's sent via UPS - they're bad, too, but Ontrac is THE worst - when are they going to get there? Six?
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Page WHAT??
Back home from wherever, about to watch Creature in 3D.
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Well, at least that put us on FOUR.
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What is an Ontrac?
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Richard Carlson and Richard Denning must look mighty spectacular in 3-D. As if you could reach out and touch them. 8)
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Such a strong, brave girl, I hope she pulls through. And a pox on those responsible for the cowardly act of shooting a school girl!
I must seek out the documentary that she was featured in.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/my-small-video-star-fights-for-her-life/ (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/my-small-video-star-fights-for-her-life/)
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Such a strong, brave girl, I hope she pulls through. And a pox on those responsible for the cowardly act of shooting a school girl!
I must seek out the documentary that she was featured in.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/my-small-video-star-fights-for-her-life/ (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/my-small-video-star-fights-for-her-life/)
Oh my, what a story.
MEGA VIBES SHE WILL BE OK!!!
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I grew up in Scottsdale, AZ, before Scottsdale became "Scottsdale." My house is 50 years old. This town started to really grow in the 50s and 60s. As Scottsdale spread north it became upper income. The people up north refer to us as "SoSco" now, since we are working class people and they don't want to be associated with us. We make sure we say we are from south Scottsdale, so people we meet don't think we are from the fancy part of town. Although I don't suppose mistaking me for an upper class person is very likely.
This is interesting to me. My only experience with Scottsdale was during a company trip which included spouses. We stayed at one of the posh "ranch" hotels. While the surrounding neighborhoods were nice I don't recall over sized homes.
How long ago were you here?
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Great photos Ben!!
I agree! Thanks for sharing, Ben! :D
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Greetings from Toyland. The pressure in my eyes is back to normal so Dr Moazed and I are both very happy.
Back to the charts!
Very happy news, Larry!!
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Well, the day has gotten worse; I just got a really ugly email from a "friend" who clearly isn't. I have no urge to disclose the contents but it came out of the blue, attacking me for a flippant email I had sent to several colleagues earlier in the day to a question about music notation. I am really quite sorry that this has happened but the person flying off the handle had no reason to attack me with such hostility.
The stars and planets have to be in a huge collision in my chart. That's the only explanation.
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So, the MD in me is horrified at the new recording of the musical "Top Hat" that's playing in London right now. Just listened to a sample on iTunes of the song "Puttin' on the Ritz" - and the guy singing literally sang "Puddin' on the Ritz" Really??? PUDDIN'?
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I grew up in Scottsdale, AZ, before Scottsdale became "Scottsdale." My house is 50 years old. This town started to really grow in the 50s and 60s. As Scottsdale spread north it became upper income. The people up north refer to us as "SoSco" now, since we are working class people and they don't want to be associated with us. We make sure we say we are from south Scottsdale, so people we meet don't think we are from the fancy part of town. Although I don't suppose mistaking me for an upper class person is very likely.
This is interesting to me. My only experience with Scottsdale was during a company trip which included spouses. We stayed at one of the posh "ranch" hotels. While the surrounding neighborhoods were nice I don't recall over sized homes.
How long ago were you here?
About four days. The weather was perfect while we were there. Keith & I, along with another couple, drove out to a state park (?) that was very pretty. At the time I thought I could retire there.
The company had a dinner at a Southwestern Mexican restaurant where I had the best spinach enchilada. It was my first experience with this cuisine & possibly the best.
I have been searching for the hotel and can't find it. I thought I could by photos of pools. Too many of these resorts have incredible winding pools.
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I grew up in Scottsdale, AZ, before Scottsdale became "Scottsdale." My house is 50 years old. This town started to really grow in the 50s and 60s. As Scottsdale spread north it became upper income. The people up north refer to us as "SoSco" now, since we are working class people and they don't want to be associated with us. We make sure we say we are from south Scottsdale, so people we meet don't think we are from the fancy part of town. Although I don't suppose mistaking me for an upper class person is very likely.
This is interesting to me. My only experience with Scottsdale was during a company trip which included spouses. We stayed at one of the posh "ranch" hotels. While the surrounding neighborhoods were nice I don't recall over sized homes.
How long ago were you here?
Sorry, I meant to say.
I know it was before we got Echo because Keith and I drove past a park with a group of people and their dogs. We both sighed and remembered our park days in Los Angeles and talked about getting another dog. That was maybe 18 1/2 years ago. Wow, I've had the sundress from Chico's I bought for the trip a lot of years. At the time I didn't know Chico's was based out there. Half the women were carrying big shopping bags from Chico's.
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And now I am off to Salem to have my daughter accuse my neighbors of witchcraft so that they will be hanged and I can purchase their property at bargain prices.
Good luck, Jack! ;)
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So, the MD in me is horrified at the new recording of the musical "Top Hat" that's playing in London right now. Just listened to a sample on iTunes of the song "Puttin' on the Ritz" - and the guy singing literally sang "Puddin' on the Ritz" Really??? PUDDIN'?
Those pesky Britons. They just don't know how to do an American accent.
;)
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So, the MD in me is horrified at the new recording of the musical "Top Hat" that's playing in London right now. Just listened to a sample on iTunes of the song "Puttin' on the Ritz" - and the guy singing literally sang "Puddin' on the Ritz" Really??? PUDDIN'?
Someone on one of the sites said - and I haven't heard any clips of this recording so I have no opinion - that the leading man sang like Groucho Marx.
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I gotta tell you.
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Ontrac finally delivered my package at five-fifteen, so I went and retrieved it. Perhaps I'll watch ET tonight after I finish Thunderball.
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It's cooled off considerably, so much so that I might just have to turn on the heat later.
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Like elmore, I've had several irritants this day, but I can't let the twits get to me so I respond, do what I must, and, in the words of Sheriff John, laugh and be happy.
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I'm off. I wish I could say to home, but Theater Artists Olympia is having a board meeting and I'm on the board, so I must try not to be bored with my board...meeting.
Until later!
:D
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Thanks for the words of advice, BK and Sheriff John. I had the irritants today, too.
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After work, I went and sought out a favorite Chinese-American place for dinner. Eight Precious Soup (a kind of egg drop with shrimp and a little bit of everything else), Barbecue Pork with Vegetables, and an eggroll with hot mustard. A little nostalgia and all was right with the day.
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After dinner, I went to hear a women's vocal group that was releasing a new CD, spirituals from all types of American music. Quite lovely.
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The concert was held in a store that sells sound systems, TVs and the like. They had a sample 3D home theater with $200,000 worth of equipment in a sound-proof room that also cost $200,000. For a sample, they showed scenes from "Avatar" and the motion of the chair made me almost as queasy as the movie.
I just didn't see the need for it, which is good because I could not afford a downpayment on such stuff.
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And that is my contribution to getting us to Page Five.
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Thanks, Dan the Man. I can't wait to listen to what arrived in the mail today. I am sure it will be my favorite birthday present of the year.
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Watching "The Plainsman" tonight, which I bought because it had Jean Arthur in it and a George Antheil score. Neither is all that worth the $3 I paid for it.
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'night
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Gratuitous Post #119.
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Page Five!
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Where are the errant and truant. Such an interesting topic o' the day and not nearly enough postings.
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Richard Carlson and Richard Denning must look mighty spectacular in 3-D. As if you could reach out and touch them. 8)
Dream on, Alice!
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I lived from birth to age 9 in one town and thn we moved about 10 miles away to the town where I still live out here on the island of Long
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In Town 1 the suburbs were just starting -- our house was newly built the year i was born and there were empty wooded lots all around us which were full of box turtles and rabbits and birds -- by the time I was 9 and we were moving all the lots had been built on - houses on little 1/4 acre lots
there was a wonderful main street that we used to walk to almost every day - Mom would put the babies inthe stroller and up and down the street we would go - looking in the bakery, the butcher and the old fashioned soda fountain/candy store
oh and a big old movie theatre that had started life as a vaudville house ---
it is now a boat show room....
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when we moved here our hosue was built new on one of the last lots in town - most of the other neighbors had been there about 10 years before we got there but there were still a lot of farms and nurseries and stables inthe neighborhppd then
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we used to have a duck farm right down the block from wjere I now live -- it was still acctive until the late 70's.... now it has all been demolished for a mcmansion cul de sac
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the stables where I used to take horseriding lessons is now a pentecostal mega church
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The chicken farm where we used to go for fresh eggs and chicken is now another megamansion cul de sac
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At least half of the tree nurseries are now mcmansion neighborhoods or gated communities
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we had a small but nice movie theatre that was walking distance - every Saturday they had a matinees for 50 cents you saw and hour of cartoons then the clown went up on stage and picked ticket stubs out of a hat If your stub was picked you went up on stage and got balloon animals and a toy --- I was picked once and received a doll
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After the prize giving the feature film came on
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Night, all.
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the movie theatre is no more and a Pizza parlor/casual Italian restaurant and small specialty Italian grocery stand in its place
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Vixdad plays the autoharp - I bought it for him about 25 years ago
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There certainly must be something in Uranus as we got no mail today at all here at my apartment complex. The mailman never showed up, nor did he even ring twice.
He must have thought Columbus Day was a two day holiday.
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http://marcgunn.com
this musician plays autoharp on all his cds
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I went to the shoe store this evening to return a new pair of shoes that I decided I did not need.
Then I went to the picture frame store and bought to 20 x 30 frames that I decided I did need.
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There certainly must be something in Uranus as we got no mail today at all here at my apartment complex.
He must have thought Columbus Day was a two day holiday.
what your lack of mail has to do with my....
oh never mind
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Tomorrow evening I am driving up to Lake Oswego to former DR JMK's home where I will meet with he and the errant and truant DR Edisaurus who is visiting the Pacific Northwest, showing her latest feature documentary in Portland.
This will be my first time meeting DR Edisaurus, and I am greatly looking forward to it!
Sadly, I am unable to make it to the screening on Friday evening. :-\
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I also went to Big Lots and bought some inexpensive reading glasses. I have been using 1.25 strength, but decided to go with the 1.75 strength ones. Got a pack of 3 in assorted colors of blue, red and purple (to use only at home) and one pair of normal ones (which cost more than the 3pack) for use in public.
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I have been watching the commercials for Argo although it is not my usual preferred genre i think I may want to go see that movie
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Ben thank you for the pictures-- I hope it was a wonderful honeymoon!
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Caught up with MAJOR CRIMES from last night. Such a good episode and the ending had me teary eyed, I guess because I could identify somewhat with the situation, as I realized afterwards.
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Tomorrow evening I am driving up to Lake Oswego to former DR JMK's home where I will meet with he and the errant and truant DR Edisaurus who is visiting the Pacific Northwest, showing her latest feature documentary in Portland.
This will be my first time meeting DR Edisaurus, and I am greatly looking forward to it!
Sadly, I am unable to make it to the screening on Friday evening. :-\
Please give Edi a big hug for me- I have been fortunate to have been able to meet her several times
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I am also glad to see she followed my suggestion on how to spend a day in Portland!
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One last post, and then I will give the floor back to Vixmom.
Just read that 1940s actor Turhan Bey passed away in Austria at age 90. Sure liked him in all those old Universal films.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Turhan-Bey-1947-Original-Candid-Photo-On-Set-Behind-Scenes-German-Shepherd-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjkx/$T2eC16ZHJIYE9qUcOuhCBQ!1)Fe1,Q~~60_12.JPG)
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where is DR Danise? I hope all is well
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Vibes to Elmore and bk today. And everyone else who may need them
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well its tomorrow and the alarm goes off in 6 hours...good night
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Good evening one and all!
Vibes to one and all!
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Page Six HOP!!!
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Tomorrow evening I am driving up to Lake Oswego to former DR JMK's home where I will meet with he and the errant and truant DR Edisaurus who is visiting the Pacific Northwest, showing her latest feature documentary in Portland.
This will be my first time meeting DR Edisaurus, and I am greatly looking forward to it!
Sadly, I am unable to make it to the screening on Friday evening. :-\
I can only imagine what our former dear reader will be saying. :)
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Growing up on ND....
I know this will not be a thrilling and exciting as those individuals who grew up in more urban settings.
I grew up in rural North Dakota with the smell of prairie grasses, farm equipment and animals. My grandparents lived on the farm and I visited them frequently. I loved to go there and play in the trees and with the dogs, in addition to eating my fill of fresh strawberries and fresh molasses cookies. I had a lot of great memories from my visit to my paternal grand parents. It was always fun to go Sunday visiting with them and listen to the older relatives talk and exchange tales. The Sunday visits were always topped off with a visit to Fankhanels Variety store or Dairy Queen in Hillsboro. It was fun to get the little rootbeer candies that Fankhanels has in glass jars on the counter. There were many, many glass jars t choose a treat. It was very difficult to make a decision of what to choose because there were so many choices.
My grandmother's house always had wonderful smells of baking especially cinnamon rolls, snickerdoodles, and homemade bread. It was fun to help her knead the bread as she would let me "Punch" it like a punching bag. It was fan making homemade GErman noodles and using a blow dryer to get them to dry as the humidity was high one time when we were making them. It was great to share many memories and experiences with my grandparents.
It was also fun to get to ride in the cab of a combine or the tractor. It never ceases to amaze how they drive can drive in straight line over and over again and have the rows turn out perfectly.
GRand Forks.... now that is another matter... I will continue that in a new post
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I grew up in a very, very small town in NOrth Dakota. Population when I was a kid was around 300 people in Thompson. My paternal grandparents, who I spent many summers with, lived near an even smaller town of 150, called Reynolds. Since both towns were close to Grand Forks, you could get the bare necessities that you needed but one did most of their shopping in Grand Forks. The small town I lived in, had a bank, elevator, fire station, gas station/implement dealer, and a bar with a checkered past. The bar also was a strip club at one time. There was a grocery store at one time until the proprietor retired when i was bout 11 years old. There was also a hardware store but I vaguely remember them along with a ceramics shop and a hair salon. The town I lived in did have a school and I prefer not to dwell on my experiences there due to being bullied and tormented due to my hearing loss. The only businesses that remain from my childhood are the grain elevator, fire station, bank, bar and gas station.
Grand Forks....
My earliest memories of Grand Forks was going to K-Mart, S & H and Norby's as a kid for school clothes and grocery. I do recall going to a Kegs and King Leo as a kid for hamburgers and Root beer. We also had an A&W drive-in for a time also.
I recall Crazy DAys in the summer when i was a kid. WE used to get up super early in the morning and we went shopping to get deals on back to school clothes and other things. I do remember going to Vanity, Angel Wings (A Canadian Store that specialized in Jeans), Griffiths and Norby's in Downtown Grand Forks. JCPenneys and Woolworths were here also.
South Forks Plaza in south Grand Forks was the first mall to open in Grand Forks and I vaguely recall them as a kid in the early 1970s. The stores that were in the mall included a sporting goods store, KMart, Sears, Skip's Drug, movie theatre, Stonegate Pet, Turk's corner, hallmark, RAdio Shack, Nelson's hobby hut, and several clothes stores. The mall has mostly closed and been re-purprosed with the exception of the bar that moved into the mall in the early 1990s, Stonegate Pets, Radio Shack and Skip['s drug are still there with KMart as the anchor.
I loved going to Turk's corner and that is where I had my first taste of Turkish coffee. I twas a mysterious little shop with wonderful copper work and middle eastern creations. The gentleman who owned the shop was an emigrant from Turkey and one of the nicest people I ever met.
There was a Bonanza REstaurant nearby on Washington Street. Further down on Washington was a Shakey's Pizza, Mr. Steak and Happy Joe's Pizza. There was later another restaurant called Toppers that made the best hamburgers. That restaurant burned in 1995.
Later memories include the opening of Columbia Mall and being a mall rat at times. I did get to meet two soap opera actors when they came to Grand Forks on a tour, Kristian Alfonso and Peter Reckell. The mall has been renovated several times and stores have come and gone. My favorite in the mall when it opened was Waldenbooks, B Daltons and Record shop. Loved to read as a kid and I also enjoyed music.
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In a post last week I mentioned REd Pepper...
REd Pepper is an institution in Grand Forks and a rite of passage among some students is experiencing a Grinder from REd Pepper.. They are great!
I do recall going to wedding dances in both REynolds and in Grand Forks. The ones in REynolds were held in the old KC building that had wonderful hardwood floors to dance on and stairwells to explore. The fun was after the wedding dance going out to eat at a restaurant in Grand Forks at 12 am in the morning. That was not an easy feat and it was usually a truck stop since ND was still under the veil of Sunday Closing laws and sidewalks were usually rolled up by 6 or 7.
The thing I remember about Columbia Mall when it first opened what the poor drainage of the street near it. The mall was still mostly surrounded by farmland that was not developed and the street was was lower than the surrounding fields. We used to nickname it Greenberg Canal after a heavy rain for the water ran into the street and you ran the risk of hydroplaning while driving in ti.
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Now we're down to thirteen GUESTS? That hasn't happened for three weeks.
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They must all be off soaking their feet in brine.
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Tomorrow evening I am driving up to Lake Oswego to former DR JMK's home where I will meet with he and the errant and truant DR Edisaurus who is visiting the Pacific Northwest, showing her latest feature documentary in Portland.
This will be my first time meeting DR Edisaurus, and I am greatly looking forward to it!
Sadly, I am unable to make it to the screening on Friday evening. :-\
Have a great time! I wish I could go.
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The Theater Artists Olympia board meeting tonight was short and sweet. There wasn't much new business and our upcoming co-production with Prodigal Son Productions of one-acts opens this Friday. The problem is that TAO has not been involved too much...at all, really. They just took over the event and we're paying for half of it. One person at tonight's meeting said that she was told by one of the actors that as of last night, they had had only two rehearsals...AND THEY OPEN ON FRIDAY! I guess it's a pretty short one-act, but still, only two rehearsals??
I'm sure that it'll be fine. ::)
:D
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Have fun MBarnum!
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So, I'm also the treasurer of my union at work and I need to apply for an Employee Identification Number (EIN), and I can do it on-line, but ONLY during the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Eastern time (Monday - Friday) and on Saturday from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern time.
???
If it's on-line, why can't it be 24 hours? Whatever...I'll do it in the morning. :P