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  1. ChiTownScion

    Forgotten Celebrities of the Era

    Shirley Dinsdale (with Judy Splinters)
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My wife got her MSN from ASU/ Tempe, and sings the praises of that state, although I doubt that she'd want to move there. I visited the Grand Canyon with her once: that was enough. Our joke employs their old standby, "Well, it's a dry heat." Yeah... and so is my freakin' oven.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'm helping to plan a 50 year reunion of our parochial school graduating class for next month: 50 years after the fact. Amazing how many of those awkward 13 year old dynamics have been lingering like ghosts in our heads when it comes to those we haven't seen in decades. Those we've...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Vintage roadside

    The Harlem Outdoor Theatre, Norridge, Illinois. Just at the edge of Chicago. Stood until 1976: demolished to make room for retail. One of those places I always wanted to go to as a kid, but by the time I was driving it'd gotten too seedy to take a girl to see a movie there.
  5. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I've always regarded Jeremy Hillary Boob as a kindred spirit. I think that he'd fit right in here at the FL.
  7. ChiTownScion

    The Mandela Effect

    Regarding things that certain people swear that they saw- but never happened, EVER: A child guest on any one of the many locally incarnated Bozo the Clown shows losing at a game at one point, then uttering an expletive, being gently rebuked by Bozo for said vulgarity... and then telling Bozo to...
  8. ChiTownScion

    The Mandela Effect

    Horace Greeley never said, "Go West, young man." That was John Barsone Lane Soule. Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." And Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula never said, "I want to suck your blood."
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    The Mandela Effect

    Gold Hat (Alfonso Bedoya) never said: "We don' need no steeking badges!" Rick (Humphrey Bogart) never said, "Play it again, Sam." And even Voltaire never said (nor wrote), "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend with my life your right to say it." People get this stuff wrong a...
  10. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Next time you hear the "We've Got the Best Health Care System in the World" party line, consider how the United States compares with other industrialized nations- including Canada and the UK- in the area of neonatal mortality: Source...
  11. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    As so frequently they do, your comments regarding George Seldes spurred me to further research about the man. It sounds like he was quite an interesting character. Anyone who manages to piss off William Jennings Bryan, Lenin's Bolsheviks, Benito Mussolini, J. Edgar Hoover AND Joseph McCarthy...
  13. ChiTownScion

    Have You Ever Met A Movie/TV Star or Celebrity?

    It's been a point of great regret that I didn't approach Gregory "Pappy" Boyington at the Annual EAA Fly- In at Oshkosh (WI) back in 1987 when he was selling autographed copies of his autobiography. My wife asked me- no, BEGGED me- to approach and buy a book, but quite honestly, I felt that the...
  14. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    We're definitely probing the perimeters of the social contract here-- but I'd like to know how any serious discussion of aging, anywhere in the world, can avoid that.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I've heard the anecdotes and Cousin Mary stories before, but the data shows that more Canadians and Britons are satisfied with the availability of affordable health care than Americans. Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/8056/healthcare-system-ratings-us-great-britain-canada.aspx
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    Things that make you smile

    I've always been partial to, "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean." The tune is quite stirring, although it has overtones of early 20th Century expansionism. I also like the fact that the Brits "borrowed" it for "Britannia the Pride of the Ocean. Fair play turnabout, I suppose, for our purloining "To...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Have You Ever Met A Movie/TV Star or Celebrity?

    It was my mom, not I, who got to meet the most show biz types in our family. She was, early 1970's, hostess at a restaurant of a hotel that had a "theatre in the round" that attracted a number of actors. Her favorite was John Carradine: they'd commiserate together about their respective...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    A shame. The wafers are still one of my favorite candies.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    At our former house I encountered a raccoon on our slightly raised wood deck. Tried to scare him off by banging a pot with a spoon... and he shot me one of those, "You have GOT to be kidding me.." looks. He did finally waddle away never to return: perhaps he feared dying of laughter.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I think that the Three Brothers and George could have just as easily been from northern rural Wisconsin or the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as New England. Never saw a sitcom about Yoopers…. and I likely never will.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Perhaps George (Tom Poston) would gift his:
  23. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I wonder if Larry, Darryl, and Darryl were Harveys..

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