Nostalgia Lane

[Kawika]

This is where I lived when I was based in Honolulu with Pan Am... I lived on a lower floor, but I knew someone on the top floor in one of the four penthouse apartments... they were amazing with an out of this world view...

[Kawika]

I used to love watching "Battle Of The Network Stars" I was there (at Pepperdine University) in 1977 as a spectator. 

[cdadbr]

35 minutes ago, Kawika said:

I used to love watching "Battle Of The Network Stars" I was there (at Pepperdine University) in 1977 as a spectator. 

That was one of the few times you'd see male stars in Speedos.  In some cases, not their best choice of swim wear.  Most of the guys I wanted to see needed a tan and to get into the gym.

[RHawk]

Always loved Agnes Moorehead.

 

[Kawika]

I still visit a butcher shop like this... but only for special meals for special occasions (like prime rib)... they are very expensive.

[Brucex]

In early 70's my mother wanted some then-fashionable thread and pin art and bought a book on how to make it at home. However, it needed my father's engineering drawing skills to scale up and lay out the design onto a piece of plywood and me to drill hundreds of holes and hammer in small panel pins before Mum could paint it matt black and wind yards of thread round them. The simple geometric designs were quite elegant in their own way.

[smokeshadow]

then, along came the Spirograph

Spirograph - Wikipedia

 

 

[cdadbr]

1 hour ago, smokeshadow said:

then, along came the Spirograph

Spirograph - Wikipedia

 

 

Etch-A-Sketch was in this same time frame, too.  One wrong move and "Re-Start"!

[Brucex]

Recently found the Shell commemorative coins that Dad passed on to me from his weekly fill up at the local petrol station.

[Kawika]

Who remembers listening to the Top 40 Countdown with Casey Kasem? His tag line for the program has always been my mantra...  "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the Stars."

[Brucex]

At 5 I thought that a tin can and string telephone was at the cutting edge of technology but to put things in perspective my parents didn't get a 'phone at home until 1970, when it became clear that my grandmother was terminally ill and they needed to keep in touch with her.

Edited May 3 by Brucex

[cdadbr]

1 hour ago, Brucex said:

At 5 I thought that a tin can and string telephone was at the cutting edge of technology but to put things in perspective my parents didn't get a 'phone at home until 1970, when it became clear that my grandmother was terminally ill and they needed to keep in touch with her.

Yes, a recreating of sorts of the first call from AGBell and Watson.  Such HIGH TECH for young 'uns!  BUT, it "took two to tango", which could be a problem.

[Horace12]

22 hours ago, Kawika said:

Who remembers listening to the Top 40 Countdown with Casey Kasem? His tag line for the program has always been my mantra...  "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the Stars."

Sure.  I never missed the annual Top 100 Countdown.  I think it aired on New Year's Eve.

[cdadbr]

13 hours ago, Horace12 said:

Sure.  I never missed the annual Top 100 Countdown.  I think it aired on New Year's Eve.

I remember learning of Mr. Casem's show in the 1970s.  To me, I respectfully say that compared to the other popular DJs, he was a bit mild by comparison.  But . . . he was the last one standing, getting better as time progressed.

Some have tried to fill his shoes with their own vintage music shows, but FEW have succeeded.  Might the music scene be different now than it was back then?  No doubt!  "Oldies" or "Music you can sing to" formats have changed into other things with time and radioa station buy outs by big corporations, unfortunately.  Not to forget the competition from streaming and satellite radio channels.  The ONE bright spot is HDRadio, as some of their side-frequencies have some great vintage music on them, by observation.  Only thing is that few vehicles have radios capable of finding these stations.  Not unlike the promise which AMStereo held in the later 1980s.

Congrats to Mr. Casem for a great career and may he RIP.  He is missed.

Edited May 4 by cdadbr

[RHawk]

Parker and Sean gave me a lot of fantasies when I was 17.

[cdadbr]

41 minutes ago, RHawk said:

Parker and Sean gave me a lot of fantasies when I was 17.

I recall there was a latent sexuality about those two.  They were good looking and great camera angles made them look even better.  Not a good-plotted show, as I recall.  The main attraction to watch it was THEM.

[RHawk]

12 minutes ago, cdadbr said:

I recall there was a latent sexuality about those two.  They were good looking and great camera angles made them look even better.  Not a good-plotted show, as I recall.  The main attraction to watch it was THEM.

 

12 minutes ago, cdadbr said:

I recall there was a latent sexuality about those two.  They were good looking and great camera angles made them look even better.  Not a good-plotted show, as I recall.  The main attraction to watch it was THEM.

They were always in my sisters teen magazines.

[Kawika]

4 hours ago, RHawk said:

Parker and Sean gave me a lot of fantasies when I was 17.

They were really cute... I had a friend who was friends with Pamela Sue Martin so I watched a few times... maybe I'm biased... I liked the Nancy Drew episodes better...  I knew Susan Buckner (she played George in season 2) from something else... and I had a little crush on George O'Hanlon Jr.

[Brucex]

For Proust it was a madeleine dipped in a lime flower tisane that brought back the past, for me, as write this, the smell of roasting lamb (I'm cooking a proper Sunday lunch) takes me back to Sunday morning at home. Mum would be in the kitchen doing the dinner and listening to Two-way Family Favourites on the BBC Light Programme - one of the popular requests was the 'Elisabeth Seranade' sung by the Gunther Kallmann choir.

 

Dessert was often tinned fruit salad with Nestle's tinned cream which I didn't like then and still don't.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 5 by Brucex

[jakester]

On 4/29/2024 at 8:57 PM, RHawk said:

Always loved Agnes Moorehead.

 

First establishing herself as a radio actress, she was of those brought by Orson Welles from the Mercury Players, making her movie debut in Citizen Kane as Charles' mother. Also in his superior, in my opinion, The Magnificent Ambersons that was mutilated and butchered by the studio.

[jakester]

2 hours ago, Brucex said:

For Proust it was a madeleine dipped in a lime flower tisane that brought back the past, for me, as write this, the smell of roasting lamb (I'm cooking a proper Sunday lunch) takes me back to Sunday morning at home. Mum would be in the kitchen doing the dinner and listening to Two-way Family Favourites on the BBC Light Programme - one of the popular requests was the 'Elisabeth Seranade' sung by the Gunther Kallmann choir.

 

Dessert was often tinned fruit salad with Nestle's tinned cream which I didn't like then and still don't.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dessert? Don't we mean 'afters'? (I'm thinking of that wonderful moment in Fawlty Towers when the two resident old ladies try to cancel their order of fruit salad and Prue Scales tells them, 'That's a bit tricky, you see, because chef's just opened the tin.' which sums up brilliantly the state of British cuisine in the 60s and 70s.)

Sunday lunch for me will always be shoulder of lamb roasted by my late husband when we were living in London. Always with roast potatoes. Often friends would join us and he'd serve bull shots. You can't get lamb in the States - not that I'd eat it now anyway, being vegetarian - all we have is mutton which is called lamb but isn't: hence the old English saying 'lamb dressed as mutton'.

[Horace12]

3 hours ago, jakester said:

First establishing herself as a radio actress, she was of those brought by Orson Welles from the Mercury Players, making her movie debut in Citizen Kane as Charles' mother. Also in his superior, in my opinion, The Magnificent Ambersons that was mutilated and butchered by the studio.

I'm sure she made a lot of money on Bewitched, and I loved her in the role as a kid.  But I now wonder if she considered herself a failure, given her early success in such distinguished work, to be reduced to a camp fixture on a stupid situation comedy.  I know Alec Guinness despised the fame Star Wars brought him at the end of a most distinguished career on stage and in film.  What a falling off was there between Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabi and Obi One, at least for a serious artist.

[cdadbr]

59 minutes ago, Horace12 said:

I'm sure she made a lot of money on Bewitched, and I loved her in the role as a kid.  But I now wonder if she considered herself a failure, given her early success in such distinguished work, to be reduced to a camp fixture on a stupid situation comedy.  I know Alec Guinness despised the fame Star Wars brought him at the end of a most distinguished career on stage and in film.  What a falling off was there between Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabi and Obi One, at least for a serious artist.

What about Francis B. who played "Aunt B" on "The Andy Griffin Show"?  She was classically trained and such, too.  To me, NONE of those shows were "stupid situation comedies" when they we on tv in the 1960s.  They were amusing (as designed) and in some respects, mirrored daily life back then.  Might seem "stupid" watching them in the 1990s and later, but not when they were on in the 1960s.  MANY of those amusing shows had some good "messages" in them, too.  Unlike sitcoms in later years.  Different generations in later years.  

[Kawika]

If you have been to Honolulu you most likely visited The Ala Moana Center... if not you have probably heard me talk about it in this thread or my blog... it has grown so much... to four levels since it opened... parking was a nightmare from Thanksgiving until after New Year's Day (I usually parked at my uncles office across the street (free validation) and walked over... the new parking garage is still packed during the holidays... It still is the best place to shop and/or meet up for a drink and a bite to eat. If you are meeting someone the best place to do it is at the center stage area!

Edited May 7 by Kawika

[Brucex]

Seeing the last staging of HMS Pinafore by the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: