When The Old Days Come A-Knocking

[Twitch]

When I "go back" to St. Louis as a kid the houses and buildings are the same today as then. You can go to Flickr and see that, but the cars a gone. But best of all when I recall some 50s incident I can especially focus on the old cars very vividly. Across the street is Mrs. Shores' black and white 55 Buick convertible, up the way is Mr Pfister's 51 pea green Nash. My Gramdma's green 54 Merceury sits out front and so on.....

 

[Folly]

The only time I ever get imersed in the "old days" is when I'm watching an old movie. One time I played that "Complete Broadcast Day" from 1939 through my iPod into my stereo and I said to Joe "Let's pretend it's 1939!"

He said "Let's not." (But let me defend him -- he does like vintage! And since he's a WW2 re-enactor, he did stop what he was doing and listened to the news broadcasts!) lol lol

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Is there a link to that broadcast anywhere? Was it a podcast type doo-dah?

One Christmas as I was making Christmas dinner, we put on the Orson Wells War of The Worlds broadcast. It was so quiet outside with not a soul on the street that it was almost like stepping back in time. I often think back to that Christmas

 

[Folly]

When I "go back" to St. Louis as a kid the houses and buildings are the same today as then. You can go to Flickr and see that, but the cars a gone. But best of all when I recall some 50s incident I can especially focus on the old cars very vividly. Across the street is Mrs. Shores' black and white 55 Buick convertible, up the way is Mr Pfister's 51 pea green Nash. My Gramdma's green 54 Merceury sits out front and so on.....

That sounds a lovely memory

 

[Amy Jeanne]

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Is there a link to that broadcast anywhere? Was it a podcast type doo-dah?

You can find it on archive.org. I put a link in my LJ not too long ago. You can d/l it to your computer and listen to it that way. It's in 19 1-hour parts.

Wow, that War Of The Worlds thing that you did sounds really fascinating!

 

[Folly]

You can find it on archive.org. I put a link in my LJ not too long ago. You can d/l it to your computer and listen to it that way. It's in 19 1-hour parts.

Wow, that War Of The Worlds thing that you did sounds really fascinating!

I thought you linked to it actually, but then I also thought I might have made that up lol

I loved that WoTW broadcast day. An online friend sent it to me so I burnt it to CD and saved it for Christmas .. apparently it's as it originally was when first broadcast. I'd love to be able to get my old radio connected up to our stereo to listen as it were, to things that way. I know my radio isn't that old, it's ten years younger than the broadcast, but it looks the part nevertheless.

Actually, the whole WoTW saga unfolded just along the road from here. In the town they even have scuptures of the craft, a martian and the HG Wells theatre.