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Original French Turboliner (RTG) "club car". The corridor doors would give it away if the windows didn't.
Same red = class! as at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Seldom do I recall seeing people in a publicity photograph seeming to have less fun en masse. Were we all so funny-looking back then?
Yes we were. It reminds me of watching the excellent film, "Slap Shot" from 1977 with a friend born in 1970. He couldn't get over the clothes, cars, hair styles and so forth. I said, none of that is a costume. That's just how people looked back then. The only look of the 1970s I ever appreciated derived from the cover of Carly Simon's album, "No Secrets." I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about.
Carly Simon's "No Secrets" album had the best cover, EVER! Oh, baby...
And the woman in the front left of the photo is HOT! Man, I lived through the 70's, and aside from the dopy platform shoes the 70's had some of the best women's looks ever. Or maybe I'm just showing my age.
Me? I've stuck with the classic guys look from the 70's, jeans and flannel shirts. Works for me.
PS: I never wore a goofy lookin' suit like that guy in the background.
The suit isn't that bad, at least it isn't a leisure suit.
The last time I saw leisure suits was in 1984, Lady Firestorm and I were on a fireworks buying expedition to Youngstown Ohio, the I-Hop on Sunday morning was full of 'em. The thought that hit us was Youngstown was where the leisure suits went to die.
It looked like the torpedo bra went there to die too, but that's another story.
My father wore leisure suits and so did a boss I used to have with his Sonny Bono haircut, aviator glasses (I just remembered his Fu Manchu 'stache) and tricked-out custom van. Cripes what a geek! But the woman on the left, third person back, notice the shadow her appendages cast? Nice!
People here in Canada after every presidential election ask me to explain the electoral college. I say that both houses of congress are on the campus, one has harvest gold aluminum siding, the other has avocado aluminum siding. But recall when those were popular colours? We can laugh about it now, but it was what people wanted back then.
Woman on the left, third seat back, nice indeed!
However, I still prefer the lady in the first seat on the left, that's the classic 70's female look I remember so well. Remember Elisabeth Sladen as Sara Jane Smith from those Jon Pertwee "Doctor Who" shows from the 70's? Again, classic female 70's.
I should have remembered this earlier, but that red interior should have given it away it wasn't an Amtrak interior. As I recall the 70's were the "Purple Paisley" years for Amtrak interiors.
Firelock76 Woman on the left, third seat back, nice indeed! However, I still prefer the lady in the first seat on the left, that's the classic 70's female look I remember so well. Remember Elisabeth Sladen as Sara Jane Smith from those Jon Pertwee "Doctor Who" shows from the 70's? Again, classic female 70's. I should have remembered this earlier, but that red interior should have given it away it wasn't an Amtrak interior. As I recall the 70's were the "Purple Paisley" years for Amtrak interiors.
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Deggesty Firelock76 Woman on the left, third seat back, nice indeed! However, I still prefer the lady in the first seat on the left, that's the classic 70's female look I remember so well. Remember Elisabeth Sladen as Sara Jane Smith from those Jon Pertwee "Doctor Who" shows from the 70's? Again, classic female 70's. I should have remembered this earlier, but that red interior should have given it away it wasn't an Amtrak interior. As I recall the 70's were the "Purple Paisley" years for Amtrak interiors. "Purple Paisley"--I was not favorably impressed by it. My first memory of it is of riding in a thus-decorated coach from Birmingham to Decatur, Alabama, when I went up to surprise my fiancee when she was coming to vist me via the Floridian in May of '72.
"Purple Paisley"--I was not favorably impressed by it. My first memory of it is of riding in a thus-decorated coach from Birmingham to Decatur, Alabama, when I went up to surprise my fiancee when she was coming to vist me via the Floridian in May of '72.
One thing's for damn sure, Henry Dreyfuss certainly didn't have anything to do with "Purple Paisley!" Yuck!
Firelock76Remember Elisabeth Sladen as Sara Jane Smith from those Jon Pertwee "Doctor Who" shows from the 70's? Again, classic female 70's.
Definitely!!
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schlimm Firelock76 Remember Elisabeth Sladen as Sara Jane Smith from those Jon Pertwee "Doctor Who" shows from the 70's? Again, classic female 70's. Definitely!!
Firelock76 Remember Elisabeth Sladen as Sara Jane Smith from those Jon Pertwee "Doctor Who" shows from the 70's? Again, classic female 70's.
Well Schlimm, you're a "Doctor Who" fan like Lady Firestorm and meself! What do you know?
"Who's" your favorite Doctor, by the way?
Tom Baker and maybe Peter Davison.
schlimm Tom Baker and maybe Peter Davison.
Good choices!
Lady Firestorm and myself loved Tom Baker until PBS imported the earlier "Doctor Who" shows in the 80's. I had a British friend I worked with who said "Wait until you see Jon Pertwee, he's the best of them all!" He wasn't wrong, in our humble opinion.
Running through the Doctors, there was William Hartnell, the crotchety old grandfather type, then Patrick Troughton, who came across as the goofy uncle from your mother's side of the family, (you know, the one your father can't stand) then Jon Pertwee, dashing and debonair and the perfect father figure.
Tom Baker? He was the like the older brother who went off to college and came home a Bohemian, then Peter Davison, the younger brother who couldn't stay out of trouble. Then Colin Baker, who came across like the snotty know-it-all cousin who just happened to be right all the time, dammit!
Then we moved to an area where the local PBS didn't show "Doctor Who" and just lost track of the whole series until fairly recently. Oh well.
Thanks for the chronology and critique. The concept and show are amazing. So many years!!
Amazing indeed, fifty-plus years and still going strong. The word from the "Who" fan network both here and across the pond was the BBC tried to kill it numerous times but the fans just wouldn't let it die. There's loyalty for you!
One last thing about Elisabeth Sladen. She was so pretty, intelligent, and had such a charming speaking voice and accent it was enough to make this hard-core American patriot wonder if maybe, just maybe, the Declaration of Independence was a mistake.
I felt the same way about Jenny Agutter as well, but that's another story.
Have to admit UK 1970's fashions seemed far more restrained than US fashions going by this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wd6A3o005w
Have to admit the BR Mk3 looked more 1970's than the original Amfleet and the RTG interiors.http://locomotive.wikia.com/wiki/BR_Class_43?file=Original_first_interior_hst.jpghttp://locomotive.wikia.com/wiki/BR_Class_43?file=Original_st_hst_interior.jpg
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