Nostalgia Lane

[RHawk]

[JackFTwist]

7 hours ago, Brucex said:

Shame that the short story I posted about how we met disappeared in the great AM crash.

Would it be possible for you to post it again?

[jakester]

10 hours ago, RHawk said:

Ken Clark  (Stewpot from South Pacific).

 

God bless Josh Logan! Richard Harrison is also featured in the movie. I think they both went on to make movies in Italy. I seem to remember that one of Clark's was quoted in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as part of the schlock Italian movie DiCaprio's character 'starred' in.

[Brucex]

13 hours ago, JackFTwist said:

Would it be possible for you to post it again?

Sadly, when I tried to retrieve my copy from a usb memory stick said stick failed, so the six semi-autobiographical stories that I posted were lost. There is a possibility that they are buried in a data dump but Joel did not think it would be a good idea to for me to be part of Project Phoenix. He did say he might be able help me manually search for them and I supplied him with titles and posting dates but that was in early February and I have heard nothing since - I assume that he has more than enough on his plate keeping the site functioning to find time to search on my behalf.

[smokeshadow]

Which one would you drive?   I want the Mach 6 

 

 

[Brucex]

Recently found the programme for the first time I went to a London concert hall to hear a professional orchestra.

 

[smokeshadow]

5 minutes ago, Brucex said:

Recently found the programme for the first time I went to a London concert hall to hear a professional orchestra.

 

I remember my first symphonic concert. . .I was in 3rd grade (this was 1963 or 1964) and they bussed a bunch of classes down to the State Fair Music Hall to listen to the Dallas Symphony.  Can you imagine a concert hall full of 9 and 10 year olds when the orchestra breaks into the William Tell Overture 

[cdadbr]

3 minutes ago, smokeshadow said:

I remember my first symphonic concert. . .I was in 3rd grade (this was 1963 or 1964) and they bussed a bunch of classes down to the State Fair Music Hall to listen to the Dallas Symphony.  Can you imagine a concert hall full of 9 and 10 year olds when the orchestra breaks into the William Tell Overture 

In TX, they would have expected The Lone Ranger to gallop down the center aisle on his white horse to "save the day".

[Kawika]

The booster seat from a bygone era...

[Horace12]

22 hours ago, Brucex said:

Recently found the programme for the first time I went to a London concert hall to hear a professional orchestra.

 

I'm quite jealous you got to hear Karajan conduct!  About a year later I heard the 1812 Overture in Albert Hall.  It was quite a stirring experience!  I don't remember the ensemble or the conductor, alas!

[Brucex]

52 minutes ago, Horace12 said:

I'm quite jealous you got to hear Karajan conduct!  About a year later I heard the 1812 Overture in Albert Hall.  It was quite a stirring experience!  I don't remember the ensemble or the conductor, alas!

It was an unforgettable experience, since it was Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic when both were, imho,  at the very peak of brilliance. There were just two works:

Beethoven:Symphony No 6
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Edited April 23 by Brucex

[Kawika]

 I rarely discuss this but I had a dream about this last night... I was a passenger on Aloha Airlines flight 243 from Hilo to Honolulu with an unscheduled stop on Maui...

Edited April 25 by Kawika

[JackFTwist]

Amazing...and scary.  Were you still with Pan Am at the time?

[Kawika]

32 minutes ago, JackFTwist said:

Amazing...and scary.  Were you still with Pan Am at the time?

 

32 minutes ago, JackFTwist said:

Amazing...and scary.  Were you still with Pan Am at the time?

Yes I was... I was based in London at the time... I was home visiting family!

 

 

[Brucex]

I have just realised that it exactly 60 years since I was taken to the Natural History Museum, London for the first time and being in awe of the size of the Blue whale. I would later see it quite often when I visited the NHM when I was involved in collaborative research with NHM scientists, eventually becoming an Honorary Research Fellow of the museum.

[smokeshadow]

@Josselin commented about the G. I. Joe Footlocker ad that I posted over in another thread; and, I thought I'd reply here.  I still have mine, although I don't use it for what it was intended.  The compartmented tray is perfect for organizing a small magnifying glass, stamp tongs, pens & pencils and other stamp collecting items.  The "chest" itself contains an assortment of stamp mounts ranging in size from 20mm to 35mm in height.  A few decades ago, I cut several thick rubber bands apart and stapled them to the outside of the lid so that advertising & informational brochures could be kept inside the lid.  Unfortunately, age deteriorated the rubber; and, ads went out-of-date, so I don't keep anything there anymore   Don't ask me what happened to the G. I. Joe action figure nor any of his associated paraphenalia 

 

 

[Steve]

I think it just tasted better when it came in the old glass bottles.

[Kawika]

I don't think I've ever been to San Francisco without buying & bringing home bread... it was much easier when they had kiosks in the terminal at SFO.

[Steve]

This is the way we turned off and silenced our phones while I was growing up 

[smokeshadow]

On 4/26/2024 at 10:21 AM, Steve said:

I think it just tasted better when it came in the old glass bottles.

only if they were commemorating one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL or the best team of the 70's 

 

 

[cdadbr]

On 4/26/2024 at 6:39 PM, Steve said:

This is the way we turned off and silenced our phones while I was growing up 

And THEN, Southwestern Bell installed a utility to notify the customer when their handset was off the hook.  Sounds which got louder the longer they went and messages, too.  The alternative was to turn the ringer volume to minimum.  Just had to remember to turn it back up later!

[Steve]

Remember these...

Oh, the excitement when the book was finally filled! Yipeee!

[Brucex]

2 hours ago, Steve said:

Remember these...

Oh, the excitement when the book was finally filled! Yipeee!

There weren't many British households in the 1960's that didn't have a drawer stuffed with Green Shield stamps and books.

[vallam2222]

2 hours ago, Steve said:

Oh, the excitement when the book was finally filled! Yipeee!

...and the anticipation perusing the "Ideabook" while waiting to fill the book and...

Fighting with siblings over what we'd get.

[lengriffo]

I love this tv show, I would like to see it again... Sasha Mitchel was my first crush.