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yesterday at 2:10am indobilly said:
Well, I had become a radio fan of the Dodgers with my father, starting in 1952, when we lived in Windsor, Ontario. We moved to South Pasadena in September of 1956; so yeah, 1957 was extra special. The Dodgers came came to town, and my father & I went to a couple of games at the Coliseum. Even so, I remember the Annette incident at Disneyland far better! Hey, I was 12, so my primary, driving interests were rapidly shifting from baseball to Annette's sweaters.
In LA, a couple of years later, we had a richard Clark, American Bandstand rip-off show on local TV. For a bit, I was dating one of the regulars on that show, a girl in my high school, and quickly dumped her. Beautiful girl, but she turned into an obnoxious diva bi*ch. She started believing all of her fan mail, and quickly became a pariah at school. Probably the worst thing to ever happen to her.
I suppose all of us, male & female, where gradually learning basic lessons about physical beauty at that early age. Now, like many of you, I regard physical beauty, and other seemingly advantageous extremes at the edges of the Bell Curve as a lifetime handicap. Generally speaking, "10's" never learned, and don't really have the life skills for a happy life.
From baseball to girls - the journey of growing up - could make a good book title:) At that age and time I was more of an introvert, so I stuck more with more comfortable things; comic books, science/science-fiction, radio/tv movies, music, and baseball with the Ol' Red-head himself. Still can't believe Red switched over to the Yankees of all teams because ironically the Dodger Brass wanted him to become more of a homer, which coincided with Branch Rickey leaving Brooklyn for Pittsburg!
Well, this side of "Your Hit Parade" with Snooky Lanson, a show that got really funny watching later as Snooky was doing his dead level best trying to sing Rock & Roll, however, are you talking about: Art Laboe and his TV Sock-Hop Dance Show?
Those dance shows, Hunter Hancock, a local area DJ - that came before - who I got a chance to work with about five years later along with Big Jay McNeely, as Hunter had "Harlem-matinee", "Huntin' With Hunter" Radio Show and "Rhythm and Bluesville" on TV Friday nights on channel 2, back then, that had the Rock & Roll R&B stars back then Duke Ellington, Richard Berry and Pharoes, Little Richard, the Platters and more...
There's a lot about those days that I miss!
The local (LA) dance show was Lloyd Thaxton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Thaxton
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May 7, 2018 at 4:17pm clyde714 said:
15-19 though May 7th, a splendid .441 winning percentage through ~21% of the regular schedule. Still on pace for a 70ish win season. I'm dying here...
I'm dying here as well. Like perhaps everyone else here, I was very disappointed by the off-season "Stand Pat" attitude from the front office. The other contenders were spending to upgrade, while we were standing pat, watching the financial bottom line.
While we stood pat, so far, our rotation is:
Kershaw: Well below his previous dominance. (2.86 ERA)
Wood: Likewise (3.83 ERA)
Hill: When we've occasionally seen him; really poor. (7.11 ERA)
Maeda: Decent #4 performance (4.02 ERA)
Ryu: Excellent #5 performance - but injured yet again! (2.12 ERA)
Bueler: Small sample size, but very good. (1.13 ERA)
So far, out rotation strength has been Bueler & Ryu, and both have been "occasional starters". Thankfully, Hill has also only been occasional.
Batting:
To my huge surprise, so far into this season, Matt Kemp has been our 2018 early season version of Justin Turner. He is leading the NL with a .353 BA. As for the rest of the offense, with only a couple of minor exceptions, everyone else is down from their 2017 numbers. So far, Kemp's league leading BA bat is duplicating what Turner provided in the last few early seasons' production.
As the preseason time ran down, I was really ticked off that we couldn't move Kemp. I was basing that on Kemp 1.0 & especially Kemp 2.0. I had nod idea that we'd be seeing Kemp 3.0.
Bullpen: Well I've always maintained that I have no logical opinions on bull pens, other than just good or bad. To me, that's entirely "black magic Voodoo", and I have no idea how any team creates or maintains a good one.
I've always supported the front office, but this past off-season, I truly wondered what their wisdom was dictating, and what their actual goals were. We didn't quite get the "ring" last year; but came tantalizingly close. So, instead of boosting the team strength up a bit to finally get there, we stood pat, while the other guys strengthened their teams.
It has been a really nice 5 or 6 run of "almost good enough". Last year was truly "almost good enough". Hey, F.O., why stand pat now? Did you think our close competitors where going to "stand pat"? They didn't!!!
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There was a downside, Coliseum. When you were beginning to actually watch TV, still a time when everyone in the family sat down together to watch TV, and the kids were the "remote" manual channel changers, we all had to watch the same channel. It was an era long before any home had more than one TV set. The only other room in the house with any other electronics was my room, where I had a little transistor radio and a 45 RPM record player (with an automatic record changer!).
I have to inject a caveat here. I never even experienced a TV until I was about 8-years-old, when our next-door-neighbor got one. It was the size of an ice-box (small refrigerator), and had a tiny 7" screen. Within the next 12 months, my family got one (about 1954), but it was perhaps a whopping extreme 17" console. I never experienced growing up with TV until I was about 9-years old. My four siblings, the next one five years younger, had a different experience - TV being in their earliest memories.
For me, I have about my first 9 years of getting my electronic entertainment from radio, and I still love that. I've been collecting "OTR" (Old Time Radio) recordings for several years, and really enjoy playing it on road trips.
So, caveat aside, every Saturday night, family prime time TV hour, parents ruled, and we got Lawrence Welk (about the time you where aware of what was on the TV). When Rock & Roll was king, we got oompah & accordions, 1940's music, along with the Lennon Sisters (well, one was cute).
The Andy Griffith show started in 1960, and last year, I really enjoyed watching that, remastered either on Netflix or Amazon. The folks that remastered that show did a superb job, and the old B&W show had a high def super-sharp B&W picture like we'd never seen before. It was a great diversion to watch episodes while eating lunch. It was also interesting to notice that each episode was something like 26 or 27 minutes - only three or four minutes had been allocated to commercials back then.
I think that was really the golden age for TV with so many well done, well produced, wholesome TV shows. Ozzie & Harriet, Gun-smoke, Bonanza, etc.
One thing I don't like about that era extended back to to the mid-50's shows; the father/husband was almost always portrayed as the clueless doo-fus in the comedy shows.
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May 5, 2018 at 6:58am ColiseumKid said:
May 5, 2018 at 1:04am indobilly said:
Yes, it was 1957. I was 12, and my parents had taken me & my four younger siblings to Disneyland for the first time. The next eldest sibling was just 7. My parents had us get into a line where the Mouskateers' cartoonist (Roy?) was doing 20-seconds personal cartoon sketches for the kiddies, but he was also accompanied by Mousekateer Annette. My four younger sibling all got sketches from Roy, but when I got to the front of the line, instead of asking Roy for a sketch, I asked if I could get a kiss from Annette. Annette & Roy both laughed, and then she planted one on my cheek. There may still be some trace DNA from that friendly kiss on that yet unwashed cheek 61-years later.
Lets face it. For any young teenager boy, or even pre-teenager, in the mid fifties, Annette Funicello was our first and only ANNETTE FUNICELLO! The female equivalent of Elvis Presley for us newly pubescent boys.
Great story, Indo, Soupy Sales (a big fan!) too. I'm younger by 9 years but still share the same memories. Gees, TV shows from back in/around that era: Rin Tin Tin, Broken Arrow, The Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Wonderful World of Disney, The Jackie Gleason Show (my Dad's favorite), Saturday morning cartoons (lololol), The Tonight Show with Steve Allen, (don't remember Jack Paar), The Untouchables, 77 Sunset Strip (Kookie), The Fugitive, Dragnet, F Troop (lol), Wide World of Sports, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, .... plenty more.
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May 5, 2018 at 3:31pm Bklyn_LA said:
May 5, 2018 at 2:31pm ColiseumKid said:
And the winner is ......Saturday morning cartoons!!!
Holy Sky King!!! earlier it had been Inner Sanctum (scary), all those space shows I'd watch; Captian Video and, the Video Rangers, |Captian Midnight Sponsered by Ovaltine Dodgers, Fireball XL, Suspense Theather, Hawaiian Eye, SurfSide six for the beachcombers.
Jack Paar took over after Steve Allen before Carson took over in 62/63
Soupy Sales - White Tooth and Black Fang I think that right, I always mixed them up for some silly reason but they were among my favs
The Inner Sanctum! That show was on at 9:00 PM in Windsor. Like any 8-9-10-11 year-old, I'd always be pushing the limits to stay up later. I think it came on on Thursday nights. Like every other night of the week, I'd be doing my best to stay downstairs past 9:00 PM every night.
Whenever I heard the opening "creaking door" intro sound to that show, I'd be like a rocket leaping upstairs, slamming the door to my room, and putting the pillow over my head to cover my ears. If that show had come on at 9:00 PM every night, parents of the time would have never had a problem getting their kids quickly to bed.
My two primary desktop computers are named "White Fang" (the good, sweet, lovey, dog) and "Black Fang" (the devious dog); based on the color of the tower cases. "Pookie" was also a frequent contributor.
There were quite a few of the popular radio shows that transitioned into early TV, and for me it was interesting to eventually see what many of the radio voices actually looked like.
Some radio actors didn't make the transition, such as the Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) character. 5'-7" William Conrad played the radio version of Matt Dillon. He had a great tough masculine radio voice, but he was way too heavy/overweight to play the role on TV. He did play the lead roles in Fatman, and Cannon on TV. 6'-7" James Arness visually portrayed the role of Matt Dillon much better than William Conrad. It was kind of the opposite of when silent & "talkie" films made a transition 20 years earlier.
One of the exciting/interesting early TV adventure shows I enjoyed was actually a film serial, called Tim Tyler's Luck. (I just learned that on Wikipedia). None of my friends had never heard of it. It was a bit like Ramar of The Jungle, but it was in Africa, instead of India.
Yeah, there were a bunch of outer space themed shows. Space Patrol, Space Cadets, and Flash Gordon.
No doubt, Brkln, we are contemporaries, raised in the late radio & same early TV media era. What a wonderful time it was to be a kid! Perhaps the best time ever in human history to be a kid - until Sputnik, and the beginning of the global mass destruction era.
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May 2, 2018 at 3:56am Bklyn_LA said:
Apr 28, 2018 at 11:56pm indobilly said:
I don't think we were that affluent. As I recall, my footwear was high-top PF Fliers.
On the other hand, who among you ever got a kiss on the cheek from Annette Funicello at Disneyland in 1957? As she gave me that kiss, guess where I was looking! :-)
HA. "My Boy Sherman and I are taking the Wayback Machine today" Wow wee...PF Fliers that's another name I haven't heard in eons, I don't remember if I ever had them but I must have...however, I remember my Chuck Taylor All Stars and I still wear them today!
Excellent...Annette Funicello, Wow...top tier Mouseketeer!! Well, you got me beat hands down that's something you'll never forget. Good year for Rock and Roll as I remember coming home from school and watching Bandstand and the Mickey Mouse Club in the afternoons on TV.
Well, I had become a radio fan of the Dodgers with my father, starting in 1952, when we lived in Windsor, Ontario. We moved to South Pasadena in September of 1956; so yeah, 1957 was extra special. The Dodgers came came to town, and my father & I went to a couple of games at the Coliseum. Even so, I remember the Annette incident at Disneyland far better! Hey, I was 12, so my primary, driving interests were rapidly shifting from baseball to Annette's sweaters.
In LA, a couple of years later, we had a richard Clark, American Bandstand rip-off show on local TV. For a bit, I was dating one of the regulars on that show, a girl in my high school, and quickly dumped her. Beautiful girl, but she turned into an obnoxious diva bi*ch. She started believing all of her fan mail, and quickly became a pariah at school. Probably the worst thing to ever happen to her.
I suppose all of us, male & female, where gradually learning basic lessons about physical beauty at that early age. Now, like many of you, I regard physical beauty, and other seemingly advantageous extremes at the edges of the Bell Curve as a lifetime handicap. Generally speaking, "10's" never learned, and don't really have the life skills for a happy life.
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May 1, 2018 at 9:33pm jeremyv98 said:
Not going to watch your video. Not even trying to fight with you really. Bulldog follows me around and gives me a hard time before he sees how things play out. I make a statement and it is the funniest thing he has ever heard and he chases me around for weeks. The bullpen was the latest episode. Sitting out the offseason is where it started this time. The team had known issues by the front office and ownership yet they sold people on the fact the team is so good they could lose quality talent not replace it but still complete the goal of winning the W. S. I will admit I still felt the team was good enough to win the division and I expected it before I found out what the front office and ownership knew that we didn't (extent of Seager's elbow injury and issues with pitchers from long postseason and short offseason).
I don't chase you around anywhere. Some of the stuff you say is the funniest stuff I have ever heard, that I agree with. You talking about baseball is quite amusing. It would be like me acting like an authority on brain surgery or rocket science. Lol.
Wow - the other thing we ran home to watch, specifically at lunch time, was Soupy Sales' lunchtime TV show. We'd run home from school, watch the 1/2 hour Soupy Sales show, and then run back to school. That's where we'd discuss all of the flagrant, hilarious, double-entendre humor that our mother's didn't catch on to.
For us, back then, the Soupy Sales lunch-time show was an aboslute "must", at least for the boys.
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May 2, 2018 at 7:01am 88bulldog said:
May 1, 2018 at 9:33pm jeremyv98 said:
Not going to watch your video. Not even trying to fight with you really. Bulldog follows me around and gives me a hard time before he sees how things play out. I make a statement and it is the funniest thing he has ever heard and he chases me around for weeks. The bullpen was the latest episode. Sitting out the offseason is where it started this time. The team had known issues by the front office and ownership yet they sold people on the fact the team is so good they could lose quality talent not replace it but still complete the goal of winning the W. S. I will admit I still felt the team was good enough to win the division and I expected it before I found out what the front office and ownership knew that we didn't (extent of Seager's elbow injury and issues with pitchers from long postseason and short offseason).
I don't chase you around anywhere. Some of the stuff you say is the funniest stuff I have ever heard, that I agree with. You talking about baseball is quite amusing. It would be like me acting like an authority on brain surgery or rocket science. Lol.
Yes, it was 1957. I was 12, and my parents had taken me & my four younger siblings to Disneyland for the first time. The next eldest sibling was just 7. My parents had us get into a line where the Mouskateers' cartoonist (Roy?) was doing 20-seconds personal cartoon sketches for the kiddies, but he was also accompanied by Mousekateer Annette. My four younger sibling all got sketches from Roy, but when I got to the front of the line, instead of asking Roy for a sketch, I asked if I could get a kiss from Annette. Annette & Roy both laughed, and then she planted one on my cheek. There may still be some trace DNA from that friendly kiss on that yet unwashed cheek 61-years later.
Lets face it. For any young teenager boy, or even pre-teenager, in the mid fifties, Annette Funicello was our first and only ANNETTE FUNICELLO! The female equivalent of Elvis Presley for us newly pubescent boys.
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Apr 28, 2018 at 6:52pm 88bulldog said:
We're struggling now, but we're missing two starters (maybe 3 with Matt), many have had slow starts hitting and pitching, but we're not that far back and JT and Buehler will definitely help in numerous ways. Logan too. It's early.
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And this has happened before, with slow starts in April..
We are fine right now.
As we approach the end of April, I see that our offense is finally wakening up a bit. Our defense is getting a bit better lately. Our starting rotation is finally settling in to provide five or six good innings... but our bullpen REEKS. That has to have an effect on our starters.
In our second game last night, against Queto, Woods was lights out awesome, until he wasn't. When he was stumbling, Doc had to hold back on relieving him, because out pen is terrible.
Kershaw, Ryu, Woods, Beuler, Maeda, Hill... no matter how well any of them pitch for the first five or six innings, like tonight, when the relievers come in, it just doesn't matter.
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Apr 28, 2018 at 11:40pm Bklyn_LA said:
Apr 28, 2018 at 11:13pm indobilly said:
BUSTER BROWN Shoes! You're a legitimate fossil!
I think the very last time I saw that TV commercial was in 1956, in Windsor, Ontario. That was the year that my family moved from Canada to South Pasadena.
Oh I had Buster Brown shoes growing from first grade to 7th grade maybe 8th grade The boy who lives is a show Buster and his dog Tie too. Pasadena, back when old red pacific trolley's used to run, my mom's principle use to live out there not to far from the Ostrich farm and we'd go out from time to time to visit.
I don't think we were that affluent. As I recall, my footwear was high-top PF Fliers.
On the other hand, who among you ever got a kiss on the cheek from Annette Funicello at Disneyland in 1957? As she gave me that kiss, guess where I was looking! :-)
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I think 99.9% of the posters on this board don't know about "pluck your magic twanger, froggie". I think that's a secret code message for kids born during WW-II, or very close thereafter.
They don't know about Ramar of the Jungle, Johnny Jupiter, Our Miss Brooks, or Space Cadets.
That's wisdom! We may not be current on frivolous social media, but those youngsters have no clue of what they missed.
We actually went outside every day and played with kids in our neighborhood. We weren't electronically connected to anyone. We actually had to establish a workable face-to-face societal model with real people. Something that humans had done since the beginning of human society. We established both families and neighborhoods where we could all agree on our societal norms. That's how human society (and co-operation) evolved. Nowadays, it seems that even next-door neighbors don't know each other. Pretty sad!
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Apr 28, 2018 at 11:08pm Bklyn_LA said:
Apr 28, 2018 at 10:38pm indobilly said:
Andy Devine... what a wonderful voice he had for the Disney animation! He was the epitome of a snake's voice... so soft and gravelly. Andy was also a great guy for comedy relief in the westerns.
Andy'S GANG
"pluck your Magic Twanger froggy "
BUSTER BROWN Shoes! You're a legitimate fossil!
I think the very last time I saw that TV commercial was in 1956, in Windsor, Ontario. That was the year that my family moved from Canada to South Pasadena.
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Apr 26, 2018 at 11:34pm indobilly said:
Andy Divine... husky voiced commentary from so many Disney movies!
Perhaps the administrators of this board will eventually allow exchanges of email names, by mutual consent.
I have everyone's email already. I know where you live, where you shop, what cars you drive, etc.
You sneaky bastard! ;-)
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Apr 26, 2018 at 10:54pm indobilly said:
Yeah, it's Otis... kind of my alter-hero a full decade after Hopalog Cassidy. I figured almost everyone on this board knew, and loved, Otis.
You know, at first, I was not sure and thought it was Andy Devine now, there's a name out of the past.
Andy Devine... what a wonderful voice he had for the Disney animation! He was the epitome of a snake's voice... so soft and gravelly. Andy was also a great guy for comedy relief in the westerns.
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Apr 26, 2018 at 11:02pm Bklyn_LA said:
Apr 26, 2018 at 10:54pm indobilly said:
Yeah, it's Otis... kind of my alter-hero a full decade after Hopalog Cassidy. I figured almost everyone on this board knew, and loved, Otis.
You know, at first, I was not sure and thought it was Andy Devine now, there's a name out of the past.
Andy Divine... husky voiced commentary from so many Disney movies!
Perhaps the administrators of this board will eventually allow exchanges of email names, by mutual consent.
Whoa - too many Heinekens when I wrote that! Andy Divine's raspy voice was probably best known as "Jingles" on the Wild Bill Hickock show.
Somehow, with way too many beers, I also thought of Sterling Holloway, who voiced Kaa, the Disney Boa Constrictor in the movie "JUNGLE BOOK"
