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  1. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I usually get a hot chocolate when dragged to a Starbucks. Coffee is usually, to me, a morning drink. I drink fresh ground (half high octane beans, half decaf beans) at home, black. Odd thing is, I never even drank the stuff until I was out of school and into my career, age 27. If I had to pull...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    Let alone write a letter to the next of kin of a fallen subordinate.
  3. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Water Diviner, starring and directed by Russell Crowe. Anything Gallipoli/ ANZAC related interests me, and this one was well done, although it deals more with what happened post-war than the actual battle.
  4. ChiTownScion

    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    It would have been an unmitigated catastrophe for all. Any offensive military attack against Russia/ the Soviet Union would have been a strategic, tactical, and logistical nightmare. Patton was a short sighted blowhard who never won a battle unless he had superior force advantage. The movie...
  5. ChiTownScion

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "The Clown," (1953) with Red Skelton, Jane Greer and Tim Considine. A bit mawkish in parts, and obviously a remake of "The Champ," the Wallace Beery/ Jackie Coogan feature of about 20 years prior... but Skelton has some great physical comedy gags in it.
  7. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And I'm old enough to remember going to see the Cubs when a box seat could be had for $3, grandstands went for $2, and a buck a seat in the bleachers. The team was awful, but you could sit almost anywhere you liked. My grandfather told me about how, when he was a kid in the neighborhood, they'd...
  8. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My best friend from childhood got his Master's from MIT in the early 80's and said essentially the same thing. He's been to ball games all around the country, but said that the worst behavior he's ever witnessed was at Fenway in the bleachers. Some woman had beer tossed on her: she scolded the...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    What galls me to no end are the chickenhawks: those who are the first to call for military action as a resolution to any given foreign policy conflict, but who, in their own youth, used any excuse to avoid serving in combat or even serving in the military, even during a time of declared war. Arm...
  10. ChiTownScion

    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    During the war years there were five dailies published in Chicago. McCormick's Tribune was definitely the big player, as it also owned WGN radio. After my dad came back from World War II, he took my mom one evening to watch a live musical radio broadcast from Tribune Tower. After the show...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    So I guess the next question is: are the plans/ blueprints of these standard WE booths available anywhere? A quick online search came up empty. I'm guessing that the original hardware (handles, door tracks, fan grills, etc.) or reasonable substitutions are out there. An enterprising woodworker...
  13. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! by Mordecai Richler. It was never my fight, but seeing how it plays out over time has been a subject of interest to me. Richler definitely was the source of no small controversy in this area: his accusations of anti-Semitism on the part of Quebec nationalists started a...
  14. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    And as to pinheads, I must ask..............
  15. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I'd have never cut it. Those grey hairs started popping up in my early 20's. It's a genetic thing: neither of my grandfathers nor my dad went bald, and we all had/ have thick heads of hair - but the greying started early. Photo is of me, last September, in Montreal.
  16. ChiTownScion

    Arguably, the Most Viewed Theater Film of All Time...

    Read your post and it got me to thinking of how, back in 1999, we took our then exchange student on a mini- vacation to Michigan, and found a delightful drive in. The facility was immaculately clean and it was a lot of fun to treat our German guest to his first drive-in movie. So, I googled the...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Arguably, the Most Viewed Theater Film of All Time...

    Crumb didn't limit it to food items- but you could argue that in a lot of his works at the time that "it was the acid talking." Still, I can see how the theater trailer could have been an influence to that later artistic expression.
  19. ChiTownScion

    Arguably, the Most Viewed Theater Film of All Time...

    Did anyone else notice that Paul Frees did the narration on the 7-Up version? And, isn't the artwork in that one similar to some of the Robert Crumb underground comic stuff of the same time?
  20. ChiTownScion

    Arguably, the Most Viewed Theater Film of All Time...

    I think I read that production commenced in 1953 and release was about '56 or '57.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Arguably, the Most Viewed Theater Film of All Time...

    Here's the 7-Up version. I think that the animation is really outstanding. Note that it's "Go On Out to the Lobby"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YllMVgHV80
  22. ChiTownScion

    Arguably, the Most Viewed Theater Film of All Time...

    ...... would be that "Let's All Go to the Lobby" trailer, made before yours truly was born. I always thought that the cake walking refreshments were very cute, and I especially enjoyed the version that 7-Up made as a TV commercial in the early 1970's. The original trailer- and the minute...
  23. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    And I'm patting myself on the back for actually knowing what carrageenan is.

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