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The weird and wacky Rube Waddell is profiled in this excerpt from Ken Burns' Baseball documentary series. There's never been anyone else in the major leagues quite like Rube.
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Waddell
baseball
Added: 2nd April 2009
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
 
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Here is a '57 Chevy AM/FM radio/cassette player from the '80's. The front hood opens to insert the cassette and the rear trunk opens to hold the batteries and AC cord. The headlights are the speakers, the windshield is the carrying handle and the antenna is, well, the antenna. The front driving lights light up when the unit is on. The front license plate says "RANDIX '57 Chevy." It was marketed by the RANDIX Co. but was manufactured in China! (It's probably been giving out melamine rays all these years!) I actually bought this at a Toys "R" Us. For those of you who watch reruns of "Home Improvement," you might have noticed one of these sitting on the shelf of the "Tool Time" set. (One of my favorite shows.)
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57
chevy
cassette
classic
car
randix
Added: 22nd August 2007
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Posted By: jimmyjet |
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This is a small, portable reel to reel tape recorder that was made in Japan for the "Career Academy School of Famous Broadcasters." I attended that Academy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin back in 1969. These tape recorders were offered to students so that we had something on which to practice our "announcer voice" while we were not in class. It could handle 5" or smaller reels. It still works. At the time I attended the school two rather famous people were sponsors of it. Broadcaster, author and lecturer Robert St. John, and NBA star Kareem Abdul Jabbar, (of course, back then in 1969 he was known as Lew Alcindor, and played for the Milwaukee Bucks.) I got to meet both of these gentlemen. Mr. St. John was actually the author of the textbook we used. I became a radio broadcaster… but never a famous one. :-( This was back in the days when you could lose your broadcasting license and even your job for saying ‘hell’ or ‘damn’ over the air. Somewhere along the way the FCC has curled up and died!
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reel
tape
career
academy
radio
Added: 22nd August 2007
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Hint #1:
-While on tour, her contract requests that she have Flintstones chewable vitamins.
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GUESS
WHO???
Added: 2nd April 2009
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Posted By: mia_bambina |
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My how times have changed. My Mother read me this story when I was a child. You couldn't find it now. Banned for content. Made at a time when cartoons entertained adults too.
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Added: 8th February 2009
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December 12, 1968, The Doors appear on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Jim Morrison died on July 3, 1971, at age 27, the official cause of death was heroin overdose, although there has been disagreement about this over the years.
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Added: 22nd August 2007
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For those old enough to remember, Night Gallery was created and hosted by the great god of imagination Rod Serling, as a follow-up to The Twilight Zone. The opening was set in a shadowy museum, where Serling unveiled a dark and disturbing collection of canvases as preface to a highly diverse anthology of tales in the fantasy, horror, and supernatural vein. The first story from the 1969 pilot of Night Gallery, entitled The Cemetery. A black sheep nephew (McDowell, naturally) murders his ailing uncle (George McReady) for the inheritance, only to find some disturbing changes in the old man's painting of the family graveyard. Some good acting as well from Ossie Davis. The night I first watched this I was all alone, mom was working late, dad was sleeping, and I was on the floor in front of the tv having the living daylights scared out of me. I just loved it!!
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night
gallery
rod
serling
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Added: 23rd August 2007
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Credit to drapersmokes
Another great big Deluxe Reading Toy from the 60's sold atop grocery store shelves. You could actually put talcum powder into the tank barrel to simulate smoke. I had one of these babies as a kid!
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tank
army
classic
toys
Added: 23rd August 2007
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'Jumping the shark' is a term in the TV industry that describes when a show starts to go downhill. The term comes from this 1979 episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie...jumps a shark! The plot revolves around the cast heading west because Fonzie has been given a chance to take a Hollywood screen test. While in California, Fonzie develops a rivalry with a rich water skiing champion. The climax comes when the two challenge each other to jump a penned-up shark. The rich dude chickens out. Here's Fonzie's famous attempt.
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Days
Fonzie
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shark
Added: 28th March 2009
Views: 1480
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