Hi Juniatha! Oh, where to begin? That photo of Barbara Carrera? Oh yeah, the "Dynasty" look. I remember it well, although I never watched that prime-time soap opera.
That Pikes Peak race? Those people are NUTS! One false move and you're over the side, tearing a path through the aspens and terrifying the marmots, elk, and bighorn sheep! You know, I've been to Pikes Peak twice, rode the cog railroad up to the summit. The first time we left in clear sky, 75 degree weather, and arrived at the summit in a blizzard! Couldn't see a thing, but the coffee and doughnuts at the mountain house were great! The next trip, no problems. "Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain..." Didn't know I could sing, did you?
Oh, that '71 'Cuda? My God, I was a senior in high school when that car was new, it's aged better than I have!
don't blame the suit..blame the diet and too much sitting for that big caboose...
>> .. something happened to mens suits that made them all look they had big butts! <<
Never mind ; Firelock , it's but the same as happened to cars body shapes a decade later - *gg*
In the 1980s women's fashion indulged in preposterous buffed fake 'broad shoulders' , see some of Barbara Carrera's costumes as Fatima Blush - designed to impersonate the archetypical 'fatal woman' , see :
http://www.celebritiesfans.com/pictures/barbara_carrera_2.jpg
(ther'e other pictures I'm sure you might like too or even better - I leave it to you to check them out)
Yet in 'Never say never again' inevitably of course she took one - fatal - exception for Bond , sure enough giving him that very chance she had so far never given to any other opponent - well , shaken , not stirred by James' alluring good-old British charms 'on the rocks , of course ...
As concerns that fake shoulders fashion craze however , it was also duplicated in cars bodies - this time by the extreme widening of fenders in rallye cars in the era when Michelle Mouton drove an Audi Quattro S1 , a groupe B monster of 476 blown hp and four wheel drive which at the end of her rallye racing career she drove to overall victory in the 1985 Pikes peak competition , see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKKfzR7dX-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NnmkeyraRc
Enjoy the need for speed !
Juniatha
edit : ( activated links )
extra : 1971 Hemi Barracuda on 2008 vintage car race to the clouds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImCeB4F11NM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NExAKxXl2Nk&feature=relmfu
Juniatha Nice link ! Women's fashion had a certain specific elegance - some of it , some was impossible . Men's fashion was surprisingly close to what it since has been , at least in more formal business circles , while spare time clearly offers more scope for individual and casual clothing . Whenever I see 1930s RR scenes I get a feeling there were steam locomotives to be seen - if only the camera would have made a turn .. Was that Grand Central Terminal ? = J =
Nice link ! Women's fashion had a certain specific elegance - some of it , some was impossible . Men's fashion was surprisingly close to what it since has been , at least in more formal business circles , while spare time clearly offers more scope for individual and casual clothing .
Whenever I see 1930s RR scenes I get a feeling there were steam locomotives to be seen - if only the camera would have made a turn ..
Was that Grand Central Terminal ?
= J =
Hi Juniatha! No, that wasn't Grand Central Terminal but the Hollywood set designers did one hell of a job re-creating it. I've been there (GCT) and I know.
And I have to agree, in my humble opinion the women's fashions from 1930 to 1936 or so were some of the most elegant ever created, well, in the movies at least. The mens suits looked pretty good too, but them around 1940 or so something happened to mens suits that made them all look they had big butts! Watch enough old movies like I do and you'll see what I mean!
Bing is singing his goodbye from the 20th Century Limited. Grand Central Station, but no steam until you get a few miles out of town.
Stock footage along the Hudson River of steam pulling passengers can be seen after the Grand Central grand number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUO4HGpkqE&feature=related
Leave the big city in style. The overdone style no longer done on celluloid.
A brass band is on hand. Red caps prance down the grand stair case. Local beauty queens atop baggage carts sing of their destination's hopeful future. A herd of questioning reporters pester. A song is crooned to tile stars in the concourse ceiling.
From the back platform of the only rail convenience sufficiently grand, the hero sings to the platform's multitude. He's Goin' Hollywood.
Walked the boulevard with a friend the other night , passed by a movie theatre , saw Woody Allen advertised : "To Rome with love" - just about to start , spontaneously we went to see it .
trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIbYqxqtP38
It was a nice film , all in all I really enjoyed it . Yet it's Woody Allen as we know him since the days of "Annie Hall" - I mean , if you wanted to be cynical about it you could say it's the same party all over - with variations , true - just set up in different cities . Ok , the plots are different - to an extent - however I noticed it in "Paris at Midnight" ( which besides that I loved ) and it was more noticeable in "Rome .." : they are basically all New Yorkers tansplanted to various other cities , spiced with a slight patina of typical peculiarities one usually associates with inhabitants of that very city - yet pretty platitude , pretty tourist-like notations , I have to say . Below that touch , basically the characters act like New Yorkers , also they stammer and nod and shake heads as Woody does and Woody asks his actors to do - no matter if in New York , London , Paris or Rome . In "Rome .." certainly they don't gesticulate as Romans do , they make a few gestures as Woody Allen thinks Romans do . All-in-all there are his typical ways of making dialogues sound more natural , yet he has recycled his tricks until they have become a Woody Allen trade mark and are assorted more to his directing than with natural behavior .
Yet , again : it was a nice film and provided - also typical of Woody Allen's city films - some great , in cases even fantastic , views of the city . In fact Rome should pay him a dividend for advertising .
Have to stop here , must check for flights to Rome ...
PS :
Wonder what it will be in Berlin , Warsawa , Moskwa , Tokyo , San Francisco - to complete the world tour .
From Eleanor Roosevelt's 1953 Labor Day Column:
"When I look back to the early days of the labor movement I realize how little opportunity the average worker had in the early days to regain the energy he had expended. A 12-hour day or a 10-hour day with only Sunday off, and sometimes not even that, and no paid vacation was the rule. Gradually with the growth of union organizations, which in gaining advantages for its own workers has gained these advantages too for all workers, we have come pretty uniformly to working an eight-hour day five days a week."
This reminds me of Albro Martin writing in Railroads Triumphant that in the early part of the last century the standard railroad work day was 10 hours long with a half day work on Saturdays. Woodrow Wilson changed that by deciding the American work day would be 8 hours and there would be no reduction in pay for railroad employees. That caused some problems for railroad management culture but management had to live with it.
Victrola1 First lady acknowledged'imaginary' chats. June 22, 1996 Web posted at: 11:55 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON (CNN) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton held imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi as a therapeutic release, according to a new book written by Bob Woodward, says a report in Sunday's edition of The Chicago Sun-Times. http://edition.cnn.com/US/9606/22/hillary.book/index.html Maybe Eleanor is talking to others.
June 22, 1996 Web posted at: 11:55 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton held imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi as a therapeutic release, according to a new book written by Bob Woodward, says a report in Sunday's edition of The Chicago Sun-Times.
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9606/22/hillary.book/index.html
Maybe Eleanor is talking to others.
Somehow I'm thinking Eleanor is not at all pleased with the direction her party has taken.
zugmann Where are you today, Eleanor...
Where are you today, Eleanor...
Eleanor has been looking for you in the chat.......
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any
Here is another Labor Day column authored by Mrs. Rosevelt from 1953:
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1953&_f=md002640
Thanks for Eleanor Roosevelt's Labor Day, 1940 column, Murray. If there is anything that railroads are about it is labor. Even today we have track gangs to keep the trains moving. I was wondering if there was anything more directly about Eleanor Roosevelt and trains. There is. FDR's Funeral Train by Robert Klara is about the President's death in Warm Springs Georgia and his last train ride from Warm Springs to DC and then from DC to Hyde Park, NY where he is buried. Of course Eleanor arranged both rides. Klara writes all about it and a lot more including information about riding trains in 1944. I haven't read the book yet. This thread started my search. But I did come upon several reviews at Amazon. Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/FDRs-Funeral-Train-Betrayed-Presidency/product-reviews/0230619142/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
Eleanor Roosevelt writing an article about Labor Day.
Very good reading:
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1940&_f=md055674
oltmannd Murray And then there's this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2Hq4U3bc8 woof. Or, in the other direction... http://youtu.be/rAM1MKi7bNU although no Eleanor's were involved...
Murray And then there's this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2Hq4U3bc8
And then there's this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2Hq4U3bc8
woof.
Or, in the other direction...
http://youtu.be/rAM1MKi7bNU
although no Eleanor's were involved...
Paul Whiteman provided much better back up for Bing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vveQ4Es9tJY
Hello = J =
Surprise....You are back and you kick it up a notch, and brighten up the place....
Q
Quentin
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
Murray Eleanor Roosevelt approves of the new forum makeover.
Eleanor Roosevelt approves of the new forum makeover.
I have not found how to have emails of a thread sent to me without having to post a response to a post; I do not like having to take more than one step to get to the last page of a thread--and when you have finished with a thread it takes two steps to get back to the forum. Did anyone else have his email requests nulled? These are my main beefs.
Johnny
On that same tangent, here is an interesting version of "Hey Jude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8LpaQekmY
By the way ...
.. what about Eleanore Rigby ?
Haven't heard much of anything about her ever since Paul McCartney sang of her . Wasn't she a BR 9 or DR 52 class 2-10-0 , anyway got saved - sorry preserved - eventually , if just by a sharp turn of a friendly card as the clock struck a whiter shade of pale in a night of white satin at the House of Usher ? Indeed , strange days have found us - looks like we've got to break through the other side to get an answer .. although , who knows , it might be blowin in the wind ! Where have all the flowers gone ?
(which would be who's songs again , on which LPs ?)
Regards
efftenxrfe Did anybody else here the suave hipster voice of Lord Buckley when reading it? (if you can hear his take on calling the departing trains from a great metropolitan station, do NOT miss it. I hea
Did anybody else here the suave hipster voice of Lord Buckley when reading it?
(if you can hear his take on calling the departing trains from a great metropolitan station, do NOT miss it. I hea
Which reminds of my only Amtrak trip ever, from Fullerton, CA (Los Angeles) to San Diego, in November 1977. The conductor calling out the stations as he walked through the cars was EXACTLY like the soundtrack from a 1930's B/W movie. "Oceanside". "San Clemente". To this day, whenever I read the names of any of those stops, I can hear his voice. It still gives me chills.
That guy was quite a bit older than my Dad was then, so his seniority date was probably in the late '30's, when RR's started hiring again. He put the old in old school style.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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Wow... Talk about a drubbing.
'Ol Alf only took Maine and Vermont in the election of 1936.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/259298/Why-the-1936-Literary-Digest-Poll-Failed
It is an election year. The lull of postings maybe due to Eleanor spending so much time on the campaign train. The polls look good for Alf Landon.
Missed it the first time, a personal tragedy.....no, misfortune.....OK, could'a been better.
Referring to the poetry.
(if you can hear his take on calling the departing trains from a great metropolitan station, do NOT miss it. I heard it once and haven't found it since.)
Robert Service provided guidance to the doggerel; very good stuff.
Eleanor Roosevelt is waiting for you to make some posts here....
Why was this place so quiet?
Rgds IGN
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