New Scaratings

Looking forward to them. I'll scan in a few pics and share them with the thread

I'm glad that some of my mother's things will be going to good people.

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Back in the early 1950's I went to a "Cartoon Jamboree" at the only movie theater in Geneva, NY. I'm sure that there were more"Cartoon Jamborees", but the movie theater was several miles from the apartment we lived in, I didn't know the movie theater schedules back then, and even if I did I couldn't get there by myself.

That one "Cartoon Jamboree" I ever went to must have happend around 60 years ago. Why do I still remember it today...? It was a six-year-old's dream come true. One after another cartoon. Even when one ended saying, "That's all folks.", another cartoon immediately began. They seemed to go on forever...



(Anyone else ever go to a "Cartoon Jamboree"...?)

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In my day, a few years after your day, we plopped our butts in front of the TV on a Saturday morning at 6am (the only day of the week we got up this early on our own), and with a bowl of cereal in front of us, we watched these and other cartoons until noon.

Cloudy (and everyone else), here's a nice little treasure I came across on the Calgary Herald's website: a tourism video of the city from 1962. Right now, I'm about halyway through it, and there's been plenty of scenes of period cars, transit, architecture, advertising, leisure and lifestyle, all presented in that campy school filmstrip style. I've posted it mainly for the insight into days gone by, but if you're not careful, you might learn something too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=dAsp15yAjOk&annotation_id=annotation_880363&feature=iv&v=DHpZcImE7Hs

I love how words beginning with WH are pronounced "hw-" (Hwen you need hwite paper, shop hwere the pros shop. Hwy pay more?). And you'd never see people feeding bears out their car windows these days

Edit: At 19:17, that might be the Cloudy family reunion

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Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

PENGWN, I'm glad to see that Canucks have memories of the past also. Keep them coming.

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The slogan, "McDonalds, home of the 15 cent hamburger." is now but a thing of the past. Back in the day, I bought a bunch of them for 15 cents, and the french fries were just a dime. What a deal, for a quarter you had a meal.

p.s. For just another dime, you could get a coke to wash them down with.

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The character on the sign looks a little like Charlie Brown.

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I wonder if any of the early, park your car, and walk up to the outside window to order at McDonald's restaurants still exist.



Yeah, that character on top of the sign does resemble Charlie Brown. This character long preceded Ronald McDonald. Here's a possible great trivia question, that I do not know the answer to. (If there is one...?) Did that character have a name?

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Is this synchronicity or what...?

Two days ago I posted about a Cartoon Jamboree that I went to 60 years ago, thinking that they were things of the past. Today, out of the blue, a Rome, NY, friend called me up, and asked me if I would like to go to a cartoon festival at the Capital Theater this afternoon. (Not joking, guys.) Are these things making a comeback...? With as bad as some of the movies are these days, I wouldn't be surprised.

Just think 2 non-stop hours of cartoons like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM5Gwzk3Vfc

(Belated edit: Here's a link to the "Cartoon Madness" that they are having at the Capital Theater in Rome, NY. As looney as it seems, it looks like Cartoon Jamborees, Festivals, or Madness might not be just things of the past.)

http://bigfrog104.com/cartoon-madness-s ... l-theater/


“Cartoon Madness” Strikes Rome’s Capitol Theater"

By: Matt Herkimer

I’ve been called a “looney tune” a few times in my life but if the real thing is what you are looking for head to Rome’s Capitol Theater for a cartoon bonanza. All this week the theater has been showing “Looney Tunes” cartoons from the 40′s and 50′s to the delight of young and old alike. Here is a run down of what to expect.


Design for Leaving (1954; Robert McKimson) Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd
Dime to Retire (1955; Robert McKimson) Daffy Duck, Porky Pig
From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1954; Chuck Jones)
I Gopher You (1954; Friz Freleng)
Kiddin’ the Kitten (1952; Robert McKimson)
Muscle Tussle (1953; Robert McKimson) Daffy Duck
A Fractured Leghorn (1950; Robert McKimson) Foghorn Leghorn
Bunker Hill Bunny (1950; Friz Freleng) Bugs, Yosemite Sam
Heaven Scent (1956; Chuck Jones) Pepe LePew
Hot Cross Bunny (1948; Robert McKimson) Bugs
Rabbit’s Kin (1952; Robert McKimson) Bugs, Pete Puma
Zoom and Bored (1957; Chuck Jones) Roadrunner, Wylie Coyote

via Rome Capitol Theatre, Rome, NY.

Tickets are $3.50 for adults (grown-ups) and $2.50 for the kids. Click here for more Rome Capitol Theater info and weekend showtimes.

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Back in the 1950's we had the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports. On Friday nights it was boxing.



My dad liked watching it, so I did too. Does anyone else remember the Friday Night Fights that Gillette put on the TV back then...?

Here is a link to a brief look that is no more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cyy_rziuk

p.s. This is hard to believe, but my lady friend and her dad also watched the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports Friday Night Fights.

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Look Sharp, Feel Sharp, Be Sharp!

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" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank

When it comes to cars, chrome is gone...

Cars used to have chrome bumpers, chrome hood ornaments, chrome door handles, chrome trim, and a lot more chrome stuff. However, today all that chrome stuff is gone. Now it is all plastic.







p.s. If you Google "Chrome" images today, you will have to go a long way to get beyond...

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Here are three football plays from the past that you will rarely ever see again.

1- The Statue of Liberty play. The quarterback drops back to pass, and a back snatches the ball from his cocked arm and runs with it, or the quarterback fakes the pass with his passing arm raised without the ball, while his other arm hands the the ball off to the back running behind him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzxNu8Kfio8

2- The drop kick. Faking a run within short field goal distance, the runner suddenly stops, drops the ball to the ground (pointed end down), and kicks it through the uprights for three points.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Jsz-fSNd4

3- The quick kick. (This would be used on third down with a long way to go to get a first down.) Once the quarterback received the hike on what looked like a regular play, he would quickly punt the ball downfield. The defense would have nobody back to return the punt, and it would roll a long way with no return, as the punting team raced downfield to down the ball, giving the unsuspecting recieving team poor field position.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCFg-0JaRw

p.s. I am disappointed that I couldn't find old-time videos of these three plays, when they were used more often.

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From 1950 through 1979 Bert Parks was the host of the Miss America Pageant. The next year Bert was uncerimoniously fired, presumably because the pageant thought he was too old. I may be wrong, but I believe Bert wrote the song, "There She Is, Miss America", and after the pageant put him out to pasture, there was some controvercy as to wether or not, he would allow the "Miss America Pageant" continue to use his song.

Nowhere could I find a video of Bert Parks singing "There She Is, Miss America", which is extremely hard to believe. This is the best I could come up with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJBDcb7kq_g

p.s. If anyone can find a video of Bert singing "There She Is, Miss America", please post a link to it here.

p.p.s. One of Bert Park's sons was a classmate of mine at Colgate.

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The other day I was talking to a friend of mine about cars, and actually used the phrase "can of motor oil". I stopped and thought....There's somthing that hasn't been around a while.

I still use the phrase "dial a number", even though phones don't have dials any more

Cloudy, tonight I will check my music collections and standard download sites to see if I can find it. Didn't see it anywhere online.

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Cloudy, I found an audio version of him singing. send me your email address via Personal Message, and I will email it to you

What's wrong with saying "Dial a number"...? My barber in Rome, NY, still has a dial phone in his barber shop that still works.



I might add that AOL still talks about a "dial-up" connection to the Internet, that still works, even though they, and everyone else knows that nobody is actually dialing up to get on line. We all know that "dial up" is just a term that refers to using the telephone.

I have a feeling that this is an expression that has become so deeply rooted in people's minds, that it may last for many years to come.

p.s. Don't tell "Oil Can" Boyd that his sobriquet is now a thing of the past. It wasn't all too many years ago that he was pitching for the Boston Red Sox.

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I do believe the Sears Catalog in book form is now gone. It died in 1993. As a little kid my mother and I went through every page of the toy section picking out what I was going to ask Santa to bring. Santa and Sears hooked up every Christmas in the 1950's, and what I picked out was always under the tree Christmas morning. I would love to find the Sears catalog from 1951 or 1952 to see the farm set, barn, cows, chickens, pigs, et al, that Santa and Sears delivered to me that Christmas morning all those years ago.

Yeah, this is another "Rosebud" memory for me.

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The Wishbook is gone forever. I remember stalking the Sears store almost every other day in September until the catalog game out, and going through it daily until November. By then, the pager were so dog ear'ed and torn than it was almost useless.

I remember about 7-8 years ago bidding and winning on Ebay a copy of the 1978 wishbook, and yet again going through it. Kinda cool to see the toys back then, their prices, etc.

1978, good Lord. In 1978 I was two years away from starting to have my own kids. As my three kids came along, my wife and I just strolled the aisles of Toys-R-Us and spoiled them rotten.

My youngest daugher, Meredith, still believed in Santa Clause into 1st grade. Her classmates told her that there was no Santa. As she still is today, Meredith has always been very determined and very convincing in her arguments. She convinced her classmates that Santa was real. (True story.)

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I was born in 1978. How does that make you feel, Cloudy?

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I'm a solipsistic conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I must be up to something, and I won't stop until I find out what
Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

Do you remember the Spiegel catalog? It was a competitor of Sears along with Montgomery Wards.

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" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank