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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...

    This could also go in the "Terms which have disappeared" thread. The phrase is, "This is where we came in." When I was a boy in the '50s we paid little attention to starting times. We just went to a movie and sat down, no matter how long the feature had been running. They didn't clear the...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...

    Recently, my wife and I watched the Martin Sheen film "The Way."It was a film in which not much happens, but it was enthralling. Sheen plays a businessman who gets the news that his son has died in an accident taking the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella. The Sheen character works through...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...

    When I was a kid you went to the movies with other kids. Lots of other kids. You saw the movies grownups avoided because they knew there would be a lot of kids there. It was great. In high school, going to the movies became a dating experience and the date was more important than the movie (I...
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Think of how ignorant and impoverished we were. We didn't even know that we had land line phones and analogue watches. We thought they were just phones and watches.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Oddly enough, in Shakespeare's time, "buxom" meant "obediant"or "biddable"(another obsolete word). I don't know how it morphed into the current "zaftig."
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Your "perfect" films

    Speaking of the young Shatner, the TV movie "The Andersonville Trial," directed by George C. Scott, starred Shatner as the prosecuting army officer and Richard Basehart as Wirtz, the Swiss-born commander of the infamous Confederate POW camp. Like "Judgment at Nuremberg" it had one of the best...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Yeah, and we weren't supposed to say "Ten-Hut!" either but we did anyway. It's what they said in the movies.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Much depended on the quality of the training unit. I took Basic at Ft. Polk in fall of '67 and it was as rough as anything the Marines had. 8 weeks isn't enough to get anyone ready to go to war but I sure learned how to make up a bunk. It's mostly about learning how little you matter in the big...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I was born in '47, got my licence in '63 and I, and most other Boomers, for the first 10 years at least, owned the car model known as "Used." My first was a beat-up Ford Falcon. I was devastated when my parents got rid of our red-and-white '56 Chevy Bel-Air. That's one used car I would have...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    You know you're getting old when, after many year's absence, you drive down the main drag alongside your old college campus and you remember every business that used to be in those buildings.
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I'd read that Reynaldo was actually a Greek sailor who jumped ship, made his way to California and made it to Hollywood just when every studio had to have a Latin Lover, so they gave him that name. When he starred in Trader Horn (1931) he was recognized and it came out that he was in the country...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I was living in Montecito, CA in 1979 during the Oil Embargo and found myself in a gas line (remember gas lines?) behind a blue pickup truck. Eventually the pickup made it to the pumps and Robert Mitchum got out of it. Montecito is home to a sizable Hollywood community, mostly retired or...
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Only the USA has the term, "Road Rage."
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    In the 70s my maternal grandmother suffered a stroke and was in dementia for several weeks, though she recovered (partially). Every day my mother and her sister visited her in the rest home in Santa Barbara. Her roommate was another elderly woman in severe dementia who talked nonstop. Her...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Tramp Steamers

    While not about tramp steamers, Richard McKenna's "The Sand Pebbles" (1962) is about sailors on a small craft on the Yangtze in 1926, at the height of the Warlord years. They're Navy, not merchant sailors, but they're the guys who made it safe (sort of) for the foreign devils to bring their...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I smoked off-and-on for almost 25 years before quitting for good in the late 80s. When I was growing up smoking was a rite of passage. Your elders rarely told you smoking was unhealthy, they told you "You aren't old enough to smoke." That made it even more attractive. Every teenager wants to be...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Kitchen match dispensers. I was just out lighting my barbecue and it caused me to remember the kitchen match dispensers that used to hang on the wall of nearly every kitchen, next to the stove. People used the matches to light their stoves, whether wood-burning or gas, with the big wooden...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The Zero bar is still made, now produced by Hershey. Originally it was made by the Hollywood Candy company, of Hollywood, MO. Hollywood also made the Payday and Butternut bars. Hershey continues to make Payday, but not Butternut. I really miss the Butternut bar. Its chocolate coating had a...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The mawkish "prayer of St. Francis" just before a tv station's sign-off. It's one thing I really don't miss about the era.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite movie quotes

    "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai

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