Nostalgia

[sandman]

Been a bit quite here lately,and i got this idea while talking to Wayne about old t.v.shows and musical tastes.

I was brought up in the 50's and my earliest memories of U.S. shows were ''the lone ranger'', ''Lassie'', and the cops show''Dragnet. British shows include ''Dixon of dock green'', ''Z cars'' and the Tony Han**** 1/2 hours.

In music , Doris Day and crooners like Perry Como and Dean Martin ,formed my early memories. In the 60's the mersey groups and the stones, Jimi Hendrix, and the shadows. Later on C & W influenced me, and even now i still love the music of Steve Earl and Gordon Lightfoot. My tastes now vary from Vivaldi though to Bon Jovi.

General things like, playing marbles on the way to school, flicking cigarette cards and saturday morning pictures.

Doubtless you Americans and others have different memories , and with Swampys poll showing all the different ages here , it should make for some interesting differences in memories.

Come on, share your childhood ,you never know you might remember things you long ago forgot about.

[Tom Nolle]

OK Sandman, you asked for it.

I remember the 1948 US presidential election. I wanted Dewey to win because I thought he was Donald Duck's nephew.

I remember people living in their basements after WWII ended, with tarpaper roofs where the first-floor would eventually end up, as they worked on their houses at the pace the building-and-loan programs would permit.

I remember catching lightning bugs (fireflys) and listening to KDKA Pittsburgh on warm summer evenings before there was any TV anywhere in our neighborhood.

I remember "Have Gun, Will Travel", "Gunsmoke", "Maverick", "Rebel", "The Rifleman" and all the usual western TV crap.

Tom

[sandman]

Tom ,this is why i started this thread, have gun will travel, forgot that , richard boone? right , what about the real big guy in cheyenne, (forget his name ), clint??. Ty hardin was in another.
go on for hours.

Smunky i play ''copperhead head road'' all the time in my truck, full volume. and i love ''wreck of edmund fitzgerald'' it's that steel guitar, maybe some canadians will help here, is it a true story?.

Speak later i'm sure.

Brian

[okidoki]

Funny that I work for the company that license many of your fondest childhood memories...

www.classicmedia.tv

:)

[sandman]

So ,you have none yourself them Timo?:)

[Tom Nolle]

Then there was "Rawhide"! "Movin' movin, movin, though they're disapproving, keep them dogies moving rawhide."

I also remember the first soap; "Search for Tomorrow". I thought it was going to be SiFi so I eagerly waited for the first episode....YUK!

Smunky, I guess I had different performance taste. I remember the Smothers Brothers, Peter, Paul, and Mary, the Chad Mitchell Trio, the Leningrad Ballet (and later the Bolshoi).

Then there was horror films. Remember "The Thing" (original, not the 70s remake) or "Them"? The latter one was about the giant ants, and I lived then in the country and it was summer when I saw it. I heard them coming for me all night.

Tom

[sandman]

Clint walker, that was it , just remembered, 77 sunset strip, and the 7 just men, what about the alfred hitch**** short storys , god that music and the shadow as he walked in , used to scare the sh**** out of me. the invisable man, and flash gordon with the spaceship on strings. wagon train , go on all night ,but wo'nt.

Brian

[KPRussell]

Thanks Brian, after a long day at my regular gig (and my first Bris I’ve shot this evening) this brought a smile thinking of these …

Childhood TV Shows I remember enjoying …

Ultraman
Speed Racer
Godzilla
Electric Company
Dick VanDyke
Petticoat Junction
Sonny & Cher
Space 1999

Music:
Stevie Wonder
Simon and Garfunkel
Mama’s and the Papa’s
Elton John
Earth, Wind, and Fire
Rolling Stones
Elvis (Remember walking in the living room when I was in 4th grade to see my Mom crying in front of the TV and telling me Elvis was gone)

Now days …

Too much reality TV is on the air … Sensationalizing the tragedies of the world is all that seem to make the news anymore … it’s actually nice to have educational DVD’s playing in the background while playing with my little 15 month old boy.

And for music … The world has grown a bunch in musical talent – Over a 1000 CD’s in the cabinet, my wife and I really appreciate all types of music and genre’s. Just saw Fleetwood Mac Sunday night BTW, AWESOME show!

Thanks again Brian!

[KeithM]

Heck - nostalgia - it ain't what it used to be you know :-)

Mostly Brit stuff here ( oddly enough ) but one or trans-atlantic touches in this eclectic list...

Z cars which then spawned Softly softly.
Dixon of Dock Green.
Play for Today - an occasional interesting episode there for a barely teenage kid :-)
Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Joe 90, Space 1999 and other Gerry Andersons ( don't remember Battery Boy although my colleagues do ! )
The Tomorrow people, Blake's 7.
Rowan and Martin's Laugh in, Lucille Ball.
Andy Pandy, The Flower Pot men, The Wooden Tops, The Herbs.
Skippy ( a contribution from down-under.. ), Flipper.

Groups, the first single I bought was 'Son of my father' by Chicory Tip in the early 70's. After that got into the progrock stuff ( thanks to my older sister ) but also The Sweet, Wizzard, Sparks, Cozy Powell, 10cc, Queen... and other contempory stuff as seen on Top of the Pops.
Watched Neil Armstrong step foot onto the moon on live TV.
Chopper pushbikes ( my Dad worked for Raleigh )
Decimalisation.

The news didn't mean much as a kid - do remember the plane crash which claimed most of Manchester United ( I think I remember that one correctly ). Don't remember the World Cup of '66 though. The Aberfan disaster is another that sticks in the mind.

And I now appreciate the fact that my mother refused thalidomide when she was having me. I knew one kid at primary school who was affected. He had a bit of a tough time although I just didn't understand it at the time..

And little things like our TV set was black and white, 405 line with dual tuner ( VHF and UHF ) and BBC1 and ITV. I remember the great day when a man came round, fitted a UHF aerial and tuned into the new BBC2.

Long summer holidays, marbles, climbing trees ( and getting stuck ), conkers and Mars bars which seemed to be much bigger !

But now I worry about how popular aluminium saucepans were.

K.

[sandman]

Keith ,lots of memories there, conkers, soak em in vinegar and roast them overnight ,i had 89er i think?.

my first tv memorie was about 1953-4 ,dad bought the first one in our street, and it was rag, tag, and bobtail , 3 rabbits i think. was it sparky, and twizzle the puppet with a 5ft neck.

Tony goulden, who played in chicory tip ,was mayor of medway last year, and lives in the village of Leeds ,(not yorkshire) just 1 mile from the castle . passed his house yesterday .

yes i remember the 66 world cup, remember korea beating italy, i was working in site at basingstoke and we had it on a small transistor.

Most of my music was soul/blues, john lee hooker, bo diddley,rufus thomas, loved it. british music the same, spenser davis group, the animals, georgie fame,long john baldry. chris farlowe, but the daddy for me was, chuck berry.

first car was a ''sit up and beg'' dagenham donkey, the ford prefect, then a zepher/zodiac, then (this will please the yanks) a chevy impala, then i got married and reallity sunk in, saab, vw beetle, boring family cars, bought an E-type once, now a family merc. and an old cavalier diesal as a run about. plus 3 trucks, two vans and a 3yr old shogun ,as a service truck.

Any more brits out there with memories, lets hear from you.

[CaptJR]

My memory needs a nudge to go back to my childhood. Normally I just can't remember much from back then. This thread was a real pleasure to read.

Tom, Sandman You forgot my favoite western. I had the black hat and shirt, with the toy gun and holster. The holster had a horses head on the side of it. Remember what it was? I remeber the get up and the face of the actor, and remember it being my favorit, but I can't remember the name. See, I told you my memory is failing.

JR

[sandman]

J.R
Hopalong cassidy, cisco kid, roy rogers, wyat earp, gunsmoke, the virginian, bonanza, gene autry, laredo, Cheyenne, whiplash, high chapperal. Some names i've long forgotton about. ring any bells J.R.

[Tom Nolle]

I know Richard Boone in "Have Gun Will Travel" wore black, and his business card had a chess knight on it, I think. I remember some of the older cowboys; Tom Mix, Roy Rodgers, Hopalong Cassidy, but I don't remember their garb. Sorry, JR!

Tom

[sandman]

How come Tom and me are the only two replying here,

Tom Mix did'nt he wear a big, big, hat, or was that hopalong?

[KeithM]

Ah yes - Chuck Berry and My ding-a-ling - caused a bit of trouble that one :-)

And what was that song with the words "daylight come and I wanna go home", "too loud man", and "day-o" ! :-)

Early travelling memory is going to Runcorn by train when I was about 5 - changing at Crewe I think it was and ending up sat on a train surrounded by lots of scary people with just a teddy bear to defend me - we were visiting my grandmother ( a real victorian grandmother ) who still got up early to kindle the fire in the kitchen fireplace. The house was still pretty close to original - a 4 storey plus cellar and the wash house was down the steps in the cobbled back yard complete with old washtub and dolly. I'm sure I remember steam trains going past.

The odd TV memory is still popping up - Tomorrow's World with Raymond Baxter and then with James Burke, Blue Peter with John ( down shep ! ) Noakes, Valerie Singleton and Peter Purvis, The World About Us.

In the mornings, it was the radio - an old Ecko (?) valve radio with magic-eye tuning indicator although I only really remember us listening to Radio Nottingham with Dennis McCarthy ( he became something of a local hero ).

I'm going to have to dig out my earliest pictures and scan them - I've got one lot from a family walk when I was about 9 and a school trip to London at about 10/11 years old. All in black and white on 126 format. Brace yourselves !! :)

K.

[sandman]

God, what have i started here?...........:D :D :D :D

[KeithM]

oh no, no no... :) I wouldn't subject you all to piccies of me - just the ones I took with me behind the camera :) :)

Ah - motorcycles yes well. An interesting subject to photograph - but oh so much fun to ride :D

And yes Sandman, what on earth induced you to start a popular and amusing thread on this forum. Shame on you!! :p :p :p

K.

[sandman]

You a biker then Keith, well back in the 60's ,i started with a B.S.A. bamtam, then a royal enfield , then a triumph trophy, then the biggie a 1963 bonnyville, had that during the ''mods and rockers'' fights of the mid/late sixties ,spent a lot of time during those summers in police cells ,paid a lot of fines , smashed a lot of scooters:D :D . Chicken runs down death hill on the A20, trips to scotland, cornwall, and ireland. great,great, days.

The ''Bonny' had a top end of 140mph . a couple of years ago i borrowed my mates japanese bike (don't ask me to spell it) it was a 250cc , the speedo went up to 180mph. sounded like a angry wasp.

[Tom Nolle]

Childhood pictures...can you scan tintypes?

Tom

[easternherp]

Why scan the pics? Use the S2 as your scanner.

[KeithM]

Sandman, yep a biker albeit on Japanese machinery. I start v late in life ( around my 30th birthday ). First big bike after passing test was a Moto Guzzi V50 ( that's 500cc to any heathens out there !! )- very nice but the electrics let me down. Have since owned a string of Hondas. It's a totally different scene now - although the 'go fast' ethos is still very much alive :) it's all very civilised - I even nod to scooter riders in passing now ( anybody on 2 wheels earns respect these days.. ).

My partner passed her test more recently and got a Kawasaki W650 as her first bike - a shameful copy of the old Kwak W1 which was a clone of the old Triumph Bonnie. She's now moved onto a 650 BMW !

You may have noticed it's raining today ( well it is here ) - that's because I'm on the bike today:rolleyes:

Tintypes Tom ?? even I know that Kodak were producing fine colour stock 50 odd years ago :) and I admit to using the S2 to copy old photo's - it worked out pretty good...

K.

[CaptJR]

I just remembered the name of the charater. Paladan, Was that 'Have Gun Will Travel'?

[sandman]

Yes think it was, J.R.

Thought of another, remember robert horton, he played the scout ''flint mc culloch'' in wagon train, well later on he was in a western ,which he played a man who lost his memory, and had lots of adventures while trying to find clues to who he was,

What was i called ,the 2 names which come to mind are , shiloh, or shennendoah.

[sandman]

Thanks Smunky, you're older than you look . i know i'm a little charmer:)

[sandman]

This is nostalgia Keith

and it was the ''banana boat song'' by harry belafonte

[Swampy]

Anyone watch Rat Patrol? That was a good little series that I don't think ever made it to the major networks. Always watched it on one of the privately owned local stations here.

I remember the BAD 80's TV show's. Knight Rider, A-Team, etc. No one ever got killed. It's no wonder kids are street racing here in the states and that they think they can fire automatic weapons into crowds just to "scare" people and not kill.

We were just talking about Capt. Kangaroo cause there's a guy here at the office that looks like him. Don't know how far these guys went, but I used to go to work with my dad in the Summer when I was 6 or so, and there was a Pop Shop soda shop down the street. The best flavored soda around. Black Cherry, the old glass soda vending machines where you'd put your dime or whatever it was in, open the tall skinny door and pull out the bottle you wanted.

Long Beach Earthquake (and of course every other one that shook me out of bed over the years). This shouldn't be nostalgia, but thunderstorms. Strange. When I was a kid, we'd have thunderstorms like the midwest/east coast. Constant lightning and thunder, multiple times a year. Now, between northern L.A. and south Orange County, we don't hardly ever even get one or two bolts of lightning once a year. You have to go to the desert or mountains to get anything of a thunderstorm.

Motorcycles? Yeah, I'm a biker at heart still. Haven't been on one in 3 years probably, but I miss them. Not as classic as the bikes listed so far, but, the bikes I rode were extremly advanced for thier time. Yamaha Seca Series. My brother actually taught me how to ride when I was 14. "Wanna go for a ride?" he asks. get ready to go for a ride with him when he gives me the key and says "if you get in an accident or busted - I know nothing about this". And up I went 5 foot tall, maybe, onto a 700 pound 750cc cafe bike I went. Never did tell him I dropped the bike when I got around the corner and had to stop. Adreniline is a good thing sometimes. I don't know how I ever picked that thing up.

[Wichita Wayne]

Radio shows:

Big John and Sparkey
Intersanctum
The Breakfast Club
Amos and Andy
Fibber McGhee and Molly

TV Shows:
Cpt. Midnight
Cpt. Kangaroo
Mighty Mouse
Popeye
The Three Stooges
Romper Room
Roy Rogers
Gene Autry
Hop-a-long Cassedy
The Lone Ranger (a particular favorite)
Fury
My Friend Flicka (Fury was better)
Sky King
Gunsmoke
Paladin
Raw Hide (a particular favorite)
Wagon Train
The Twilight Zone
Alfred Hitch****
Maverak
Bat Masterson
The Honeymooners (a particular favorite)
I love Lucy
Jack Benny
Perry Como
Ed Sullivan
Jack Parr
Ernie Covax
Lawrence Welk (not one of my favorites)
Diana Shore
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (Sat PM local out of Tulsa, OK)
Bonanza
Big Valley
Car 54 Where are you

Sing polly wally doodle al the day.

[sandman]

Wayne, i was counting on you ,for this thread, it was your talk of ''fawlty towers '' and the sex pistols that put the idea in my head,
Flicker and fury , the other one , 'champion the wonder horse', so paladin was a show on it's own?. jack benny , in the ''burns and allan ''show. and i'd forgotten ''car 54'' jack gynn heard he died recently.?

Bryan, you talk about how heavy those bikes were, well you had an electric starter, on mine it was a kick start, and if you got the compression wrong on the top of the stroke, the bloody lever would kick back up and nearly break your ankle. same as the old cars and lorrys with the starting handles, great in the winter when the batteries are flat , but boy did they kick back.....kids today.....................they don't know their born

Brian

[Tom Nolle]

I forgot my namesake; "TOM CORBETT: Space Cadet!"

I had a few old tintypes of relatives; they don't photograph easily because of surface reflectance. I have a Canon flatbed that will copy them, though. I've scanned a bunch of images of old relatives (now mostly beyond "old" into the "dead" range) obtained from other not-so-old relatives.

Tom

[Wichita Wayne]

Sandman, you reminded me of Burns and Allen and it also made me think of:

Ozzie & Harriett
Make Room for Daddy
My Three Sons
Dragnett
Highway Patrol

And a hero that used a silver helmet and rocket pack to control the forces of evil that used a machine to transport from their planet to the Earth. Don't recall the name.

And last of all you mentioned somewhere that you would pop into a telephone booth and change into your superman outfit. Well, I am here to tell you that you better look around before you drop your trousers because you might be in the Tartus and Dr. Who and his pretty sidekick would see you in your Y-Fronts.

[Swampy]

Would you be referring to "The Rocketeer", Wayne?

[sandman]

Tardis, (Time And Relative Dimentions In Space), it was police box Wayne , but who cares great memories eh

Highway patrol , broderick crawford, always sitting in that car in a mountain top layby.

[Wichita Wayne]

Well that's good to know. I always thought it was a phone booth. Good series though. And Swampy it was Commando Cody rather the Rocketeer. In fact I believe the Rocketeer was styled after Commando Cody.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/3622/ccsmou.htm

Ain't the internet wonderful! All I looked up was Rocket Pack TV and Commando Cody was all over the place.

[toners]

This is a perfect thread. I think we photographers are nostalgic by nature, forever fussing over capturing disappearing moments. A tape recorder, like a camera, is another techno-nostalgia tool. So I offer up this piece i wrote a few years ago following the demise of a long-suffering reel-to-reel.

The old Sony reel-to-reel tape recorder finally ground to a grating and permanent halt about a year ago. It had come into my life one evening in 1965 when I wheeled it out of Reno's Eagle Thrifty supermarket in a shopping cart together with a roll of S&H green stamps that would fill three and a half books. For 23 years it recorded selects from my LPs, friends singing, borrowed records, sounds of thunderstorms and rain and my 1951 Plymouth, my attempts at playing a guitar, and later, sounds of weddings, my babies being bathed, and growing up into little boys. The ranks of reels of 1800-foot by 1/4-inch tape, recorded at 7-1/2 inches per second grew, and were numbered and cataloged in a little blue three-ting binder. The binder goes up to number 109.

After all those miles of tape, which ground through one tape head and were working on another, the machine developed a death rattle in the transport mechanism bearings. Too noisy to use, but too precious to discard, it was the only access to all those sounds locked in silent cardboard boxes on shelves down in the garage.

Last week at the 50% off senior day at the Purple Heart Veterans Thrift Store on Folsom Boulevard, an Akai 4000DS Three Head One Micron Gap tape deck stood in unscratched, undusty splendor between a Beta video tape player and a Commodore Vic 20 computer when I happened by.

Ten bucks.

It plays perfectly, with silky smooth tape transport, the reels revolving in lazy circles while the VU meters perform their synchronized dance under soft incandescent lights. No wimpy little green diodes or dark plastic lids hiding the source. The music media is in full view as it goes around and under and through and out there and there. Music you can keep an eye on while it plays.

Reel music.

And all those old friends...

Vince Guaraldi
Peggy Lee
The Beatles
Mississippi John Hurt
Peter Paul and Mary
Simon and Garfunkle
Gordon Lightfoot
Judy Collins
Arlo Guthrie
Libba Cotton
Pete Seeger
John Denver
Ian Tyson
Sylvia Fricker
Joan Baez
Bob Dylan
Cat Stevens
Paul McCartney
Dire Straights
James Taylor
Crystal Gayle
Chuck Mangione
Dan Fogelburg
Mimi Farina
Taj Mahal
Fleetwood Mack
Carly Simon
Michael Murphy
Doc Watson
Buffy St. Marie
Earl Scruggs
Mother Maybelle Carter
Kenny Loggins
Paul Simon
Janis Ian
Joni Mitchel


With a special appearance by Eric Mindling singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,

Have been wailin' away the weekend here in Cool while we've been stompin' and clappin' and rattlin' the windows and generally making a nuisance of ourselves.

[sandman]

Long before mobile phones or vandalism, the police had those boxes so that they could phone in while on the beat, i think they were always locked though.

more memories
Bryan when you're down in mexico ,look out for ''Zorro'' or 'speedy gonzales' remember them?.

does anyone remember a character called 'highram holiday'' looked a bit like brains from t/birds and always carried a umbrella,
or a western ''Steve Donague. U.S.marshall'' seems it was about the mid to late 50's.

Treasure island with Robert newton
Davy crockett with fess parker
Mr Ed the talking horse
Anne oakley (mus'nt forget the girls)
Mr Mc Gue


Neville Brand in a series about texas rangers
Superman, big guy looked like he ought to diet

And two i can only just remember, need some help here

Steve McQueen in a western series
and
Chuck Conners in another?

[sandman]

Tony i see you've got Dire straits and James Taylor ,next to each other on your list, very apt ,as mark knopler and james taylor have been teaming up on a few records lately . Knopler had a bad bike crash in London a few months back, O.K just a few broken bones.
Long before cassettes i had a reel to reel grundig tape rec, seem to remember taping ''good vibrations'' and ''shotgun wedding'' on it

Strange how this thread is bringing back long forgotten moments.

But no input yet from some of the others, Europeans have memories too, or you canadians out there. c,mon get involved , you might just enjoy it.

[KeithM]

This thread has started to resemble past office conversations - being the kid in the office ( at 42 ! ), my colleagues reel off a lot of the names you've been coming up with !

Two other memories at opposite ends of the scale:
- being taken to the cinema to watch The Sound of Music ( fell asleep )
- travelling to Chester with my Dad to visit an uncle who worked for Hawker Siddley and being treated to a flying display from a Harrier jump jet at the factory - this was mid/late 60's ? and the Harrier was very new.

So as threatened - some early photo efforts. Top left is my dad and older sister - I was about 9 and displaying classic juvenile 'jab the shutter release' syndrome.

The other 3 are from a trip to London about a year later. I think it was just after the PO Tower got bombed - we were going to go to the tower as well. There's an early example of my duck photography, some nice old motors and Sean Connery in the latest Bond movie :)

K.

[sandman]

Keith
This thread is taking a sinister twist, but as i started it ,i'll post these, it will be my one and only attemp at self humiliation.
taken about 1949-50, on a day trip with mum and dad, the other one is me and my sister ,and judy my pet dog i was about 8 i suppose.
Not as neat as yours , and they are old and dog eared, and so are the photo's.:D

i repeat, this is a one off.

[pappapratt]

I remember...

Gasoline at 19 cents a gallon,
"Sandy's" burger joint,
Mr. Zing and Tuffy,
Being able to walk miles from my house by myself in pre-adolescence without my parents having to worry as well as staying out way past dark,

I remember...
When there were no pregnant students in High School, much less Juniour High,
Snickers were 10 cents and a BOTTLE of soda was a nickle.
Casper, the friendly ghost,
Dark Shadows and the Green Phantom,
Starting the Mazzeppa Pompazoidie fan club,
When the lyrics to "Okie from Muskogee" were actually factual,
Standing in line in freezing temps to buy Led Zeppelin tickets and then only spend $7.50/ticket and it was a RESERVED seat!
My first car, a 71 Malibu SS with 454 and that always hungry 8-track tape player
When 14 miles to a gallon of gas was incredible!
Being able to buy a 3 course meal in Granada for around 25 cents.
Drinking Chocolate Soldiers at the bait shop with my dad on Sat.


Wow, clearing the cobwebs feels good!

[Steve P]

Smunky,

I to like Kelly Joe Felphs. Being a bit of a Hi Fi nut he's in my CD player often. You sure are lucky to see him live Smunky!!


Steve

[KeithM]

Sandman,

Photos like those certainly need to be treasured. I've got a stack of family photos from my Dad from when he was a kid - negatives and prints. They're old and easily damaged - I've kept them in a dark drawer in a sealed bag ready for when I think it's time to preserve them digitally. I feel that I should get them done by a specialist - it'd be worth the money. Both my parents are still alive but it would be nice to get the pictures done before it's too late. There are some great beach shots - we're talking 1930's here !

I guess having those photos is what makes me so careful about keeping all my photographs - both digital and film. I've got 4 large storage boxes of prints - I occasionally have a look through some of them ( sometimes accompanied by a glass or 3 of wine ) which induces moments of nostalgia.

K.

[Swampy]

Keith - you may want to start "digitizing" them now with your S2. See pic below. That's my Mom and Uncle, late 1940's. This pic is untouched so far, besides a crop and looks better than the original. Get good at removing scratches and stuff and it'll be easy. I converted about 800 pictures this was a few months ago. Two people make it real easy, plus sorting them by the size of the picture. One changes pictures out under the tripodded camera, the other does fine adjustments and takes the picture. I used my Nikkor 60mm to do this. I also took a 2x1 1/2" yearbook picture, used my S2 like that, PS'ed it a little and re-printed it on A4 and it came out really nice.

Brian - Of course I remember Speedy and Zorro. Ariva! Ariva! I don't think I cared for the mouse when I was growing up. I was a Buggs Bunny and Elmer fan when it came to those kinda cartoons.

[Swampy]

How's that for nostalgia. Just thought about the picture itself. Sitting on the back porch reading comic books?

I went full res on the pic and the comic book my mom is reading is a Walt Disney, but I can't make out the other one. If you want to see a blown up section of it, you can see it at http://theswampbbs.com/s2/nostalgia.jpg

[KeithM]

Swampy,

I would certainly have a go at shooting the prints but I've also got the negs for most of them - I'm not sure what format they are - I would guess box brownie roll film or similar although they are cut into individual negs. They're in their envelopes and I don't like disturbing them as the emulsion is getting very delicate on some of them.

Maybe a flatbed scanner might be the best option but it's about time I had a serious look at getting them copied. They're worth it !

Keith.

[Swampy]

ahh. Yeah, if you got the negs, that is the way to go. Technology is available and very good today. I'd get on that as soon as you can since, as you said, they're probably getting pretty sensitive.

White glove them when you're handling them...

[CaptJR]

Sandman

Chuck Conners - I remember seeing him at a local rodeo when I was a kid. He road out on his horse twirling that special big levered rifle - The Rifleman - I was in awe. That was one of my biggest favorits.

JR

[Wichita Wayne]

Steve McQueen was in a Western called Wanted: Dead or Alive where he was a former Confederate soldier that turned bounty hunter. And, Chuck Conners, after a remarkable career as a professional basketball player in the NBA, was the lead in a Western called the Rifleman. He was a rancher and single parent and the plot usually centered around his relationship with his son.

And how many remember a series about the South Pacific called "Adventures in Paradise" that centered around the captain of a schooner for hire called the Tiki.

And of course there was Sgt. Bilko

[sandman]

the rifleman ,i remember that tall haunted look of his , a bit like jack palance.
Steve MvQueen .
and i thought he was a hired killer , but a bounty hunter, yes thats right.
We had a pirate series called ''the Buccaneers'' with robert shaw .
As i was typing this a conversation on my t.v. , just mentioned ''fantasy island'' must have known ... spooky.

One of my favourite singers (and there are so many), is Bob Seger and the silver bullet band, fav track 'we've got tonite', but the whole of Stranger in Town album.

And 8 track players like Beta video's consigned to the dustbin of history.

[S_Leeper]

Wasn't Sgt Bilko an early Steve Martin film... am I really that old...

Another (one of many) great movies was No Time For Sgts. with Andy Griffin & Don Knotts (Barney).

re: the cartoons I liked Bugs Bunny, but I loved Roadrunner. After I was a bit older >15 I really started to appreciate Rocky & Bullwinkle.

I know I watched TV back then but don't remember much of what, except early Sat morn's watching Three Stooges.

[Wichita Wayne]

The first Sgt. Bilko was an actor named Phil Silvers and the show was pretty funny.

[sandman]

Wayne, i loved the little fat fella, always the gofo, they still show 'bilko' on satellite over here,

Playing Van morrisons 'back on top' album as i'm typing this.

Wifes gone to work , she's a 'philly' fan, not my cup of tea, west coast for me.


Brian

[sandman]

couple more memories.

Going to the Isle of Wight to see Bob Dylan back in the 60's, a sort of mini woodstock .

Does anyone remember a rock singer Johnny Rivers, i bought 3 singles in the 60's
memphis
maybellene
and , mountain of love / moody river
also a LP called '' johnny rivers at the whiskey a go-go''
good voice ,never heard about him again after 1970

talking of good voice's my favourite ballad singer , Scott Walker. great ,great voice. ''Lights of cincinatti '' and ''Joanna'' are still brilliant songs. And often played.

[Steve Wynn]

Ah, music trivia, I've eaten a lot of free pizza compliments of local radio stations.

Oh, back to Johhny Rivers, he was still performing about 5 years ago. I know he did a "Square Fair" (a Lima, OH festival of food and entertainment sinced dropped) and walked around sampling the food and visiting with people. The local paper found him as he chatted with people and introduced himself as "John" , without mentioning his last name or what he did. He surprised more than a few people about an hour or so later.

"Muddy Water" and "Muddy River" ! , but don't forget "secret Agent Man" , "Midnight Special" (used by the TV show) and "The Seventh Son"

The last release I think was in late 1977 called "Curious Mind"

p.s. He also wrote "By the time I Get to Phoenix" which was recorded by Glen Campbell.

[Steve P]

Great shot Smunky!

The Kelly Joe disc I have is "Shine Eyed Mr Zen" and I discovered him by mistake. what a lucky boy I am! Interestingly so smooth is his style that I can imaging his Eyes being shut when he's doing his stuff..

[sandman]

bucky
thanks for the info on Johnny rivers, wondered what happened to him. just 2 points are you getting ''muddy river'' mixed up with ''moody river'' the old pat boone song , or is it a different one, and i can just remember ''secret agent man'' now.

Also sorry to pick you up on this but ''pheonix '' is a jimmy webb song .

Just heard on the news today about the death of Johnny Cash, a great loss to country music .

Brian

[Steve Wynn]

You're right about the writer of "By The Time I Get to Phoenix" it was Jimmy Webb. I checked it out on the Glen Campbell album and sure enough. Then I went back and checked "Johnny Rivers" in Nite's book "Rock On, Volume II" which shows Rivers had releases of Muddy Water in June 66 and Muddy River in June 69, I couldn't find where he release Moody River but Pat Boone did in 1961.

I remember and still have the first 45 rpm I ever picked out and bought. "Blue Suede Shoes" by Elvis. Also have almost everything he ever recorded. I have a shelf about 6 feet long with filled with LP's (remember them) and CD's.

I remember in 1987, my goal was to win music trivia on a local radio station an average of once a week. I ended up doing it and still spent 8 weeks out of state. I'm evidently a bit rusty now.

Thanks for correcting me Sandman.

[sandman]

The british release of ''Mountain of love'' the flip (B) side was ''Moody river'' .A song a bit like ''ode to billie joe'' in the way it told of a lost love. Might not have been released in the U.S.
i remember it well ,because i was 18-19 and played it to death. can still sing both lyrics still. many songs are like that ,have'nt heard them in years but can still remember them so well

Treat her right .....................Roy Head
Lightning Strikes.................Lou Christie.
Cara mia.............................Jay and the americans.

All past favourites ,long forgotten

Brian

[rewind]

Sandman,

Tom Mix did wear a wide brimmed hat.
Who was Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick.......Gabby Hays, Roy Rogers's sidekick...Pat Butrum and his jeep Nelliebelle, Matt Dillon's sidekick...Chester, Cisco Kid's sidekick......Poncho, Lone Ranger's sidekick.......none other than Tonto, etc.
Other TV westerns.....Rin Tin Tin, Wild Bill Hickok, Wild, Wild West, Yancy Derringer.
Kid shows.......Andy's Gang with Andy Devine.."plunk your magic twanger Froggy",..Dead End Kids,....Our Gang...Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, etc....Howdy Doody with Buffalo Bob Smith....anybody from the East Coast remember the 60's kids show "the Soupy Sales Show"?
This could go on forever, but I won't......it's been fun.

[Steve Wynn]

Yeah, I remember a lot of those. Plus some of the goofy caartoons. Remember "Mighty Mouse" ?

[sandman]

Just laying in bed this morning half awake ,when i had a thought (now,now, keep this forum clean now).

A cowboy called ''Bronco'' don't think it's been mentioned before. What was the hero called ,seem to remember it was bronco lane, but can't think of his name. seen him in two old films though.

Custer of the west.........Robert Shaw version and

Battle of the Bulge........ no it's not another slimming video :)

[Wichita Wayne]

Here is a site the might help.

http://www.networksplus.net/caseyguy/Bronco.htm

Don't remember much about this but if I saw a rerun I might remember it.

[sandman]

That was quick Wayne, Ty Hardin, yea i mentioned him right at the start, but had forgotten what he was in. cheers wac. (scouser talk):D :D

Brian

[Steve Wynn]

Sandman, what's a scouser?

Steve

[sandman]

Steve


It's a slang term for somebody from Liverpool. Although i'm not , i'm a south east Londoner, i spent a lot of time in Liverpool , support their soccer team, (the red side) and have many friends and relatives in the area .

The reason i used it , was because i know Wayne has spent time in that part of england too.

Brian

[CaptJR]

Not much new music on there. All instrumental music done on my keyboard. No singing, I don't sing anymore, to many cigarettes I guess. The folks at my local VFW Club kept pestering me to sing when they had the karaoke guy for entertainment. I kept saying NO. Then one time I finally said, "OK, I'll sing this one time, only to show you why there is no vocals on my CD!" So I sang. They haven't ask me since. LOL


http://robertsdigitography.com/CaptJRs/music/music.htm
JR

[Wichita Wayne]

Here is a link that will tell the whole storie about scousers.

http://www.scouser.com/recipe/

Of course it has to do with food.

[Steve Wynn]

Way to go Wayne!

I just ate, that recipe looks pretty good to me! Need to find some lambs breast though. Plenty of meat markets in this county. (Farm country....yeah!)

Steve

[jknights]

Hey I havent seen Bonaza mentioned yet.

Or these:
Champion the Wonder Horse
Fireball XL5
Stingray

Mind I only encountered the TV when I first came to school in UK when I was 7 !! 1961....