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Lessons on Being a Grown-Up from… Vincent Price?
PJ Media ^ | February 5, 2013 | Kathy Shaidle

Posted on 02/13/2013 9:17:27 AM PST by Squawk 8888

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To: Squawk 8888

Thanks for the ping.


21 posted on 02/13/2013 1:15:51 PM PST by GOPJ ( Illegal immigrants: violent boorish party crashers. Send them home, call police - make them leave.)
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To: Squawk 8888

In the DC Metro area, there was Count Gore DeVol with his “Creature Feature”.

http://www.countgore.com/

And who can forget Dr. Paul Bearer?

http://www.drpaulbearer.com/

Good times...good times.


22 posted on 02/13/2013 1:59:26 PM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

In Indy, we had Channel 4. During the day we had Cowboy Bob, who we were convinced did the show stoned. In the afternoon it was Popeye & Janie. Janie was perpetually pregnant. My sister’s girl scout Troop appeared on the show and while Janie came off all sugary sweet during the show, my sister said she screamed at them during the commercials. Finally, Saturday night had Sammy Terry, the horror show host. The rumor was that Sammy Terry & Janie were married.


23 posted on 02/13/2013 2:58:32 PM PST by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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To: Rebel_Ace; Squawk 8888

‘we had “The Ghoul” (outta Deeeeeee-troit)

We lived north of Detroit then, and after the local channels had gone off the air, our TV could pick up Detroit channels. I could sneak out of the downstairs bedroom, and watch The Ghoul at midnite. I got the crap scared out of me! The Fly, Blood on Satan’s Claw, 13 Ghosts,etc.


24 posted on 02/13/2013 3:12:01 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: Squawk 8888

I loved that show, still do.
Billy Van WAS the show. He played most of the characters (Bwana Clyde Batty, Grizelda, the Count and on and on). He passed away a few years ago, but he left a great legacy. I still find that show on satellite and watch it when I can.


25 posted on 02/13/2013 6:14:26 PM PST by Dartman (Mubarak and Gaddafi are going to look like choirboys when this is over)
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To: Rebel_Ace

Stay sick. Scratch glass. Climb walls. Turn Blue. Do it while you can, but don’t get caught!!! Bye!!


26 posted on 02/13/2013 8:06:56 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: henkster

In LA there was show called the Pier 5 Club, with host Tom Hatten. He showed Popeye cartoons and other kid’s cartoons. I was on the show in 1962, right after my fifth birthday. I still have the hat, membership card, faux mini Christmas tree and two decorations I got on the show.


27 posted on 02/13/2013 8:13:45 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

In Hawaii, we had Checkers and Pogo. Every kid in my elementary school watched it daily when they got home from school........until Mom had to change the channel to put on The Merv Griffin Show......I always hated Merv for that reason.


28 posted on 02/13/2013 8:16:14 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Life was more fun back in the 1950s and 60s.”

The 40s were terrific too. We were always “shooting”
the Germans or Japanese.

Toy guns,guns,guns-——all made of metal,no plastic.

And with all that shooting we didn’t become a violent generation.

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29 posted on 02/13/2013 8:19:00 PM PST by Mears
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To: Squawk 8888
Nostalgia.

You can still find Frightenstein on TV here and there on Saturday morning in some markets, and if you're up early enough.

My favourite segments were always the physics demonstrations by The Professor—Julius Sumner Miller, one of the great TV scientists. He was one of Albert Einstein's students. The most memorable one for me had to do with suction cups—Miller went to great lengths to insist that so-called "suction cups" stuck to things because of the outside air pressure pushing on them, and that if anyone insisted it had to do with suction, he would hunt them to the ends of the earth, or words to that effect. He was the straight man, giving an absolutely earnest physics lecture in the midst of a mad scientist's lab and all the other zaniness going on.

CHCH-TV was also the original home of Red Green. They put out years of classic TV on a shoestring budget.

30 posted on 02/13/2013 8:25:33 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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My favourite segments were always the physics demonstrations by The Professor—Julius Sumner Miller, one of the great TV scientists.

Here you go Julius Sumner Miller - Atmospheric Pressure

He puts Bill Nye, the "alleged" Science Guy, to shame.

31 posted on 02/13/2013 8:33:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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Here you go Julius Sumner Miller - Atmospheric Pressure

As a matter of fact, I was just watching that a few minutes ago! Same method of delivery, and everything. I was actually quite pleased to (re)discover that Miller didn't talk down to kids or dumb down his vocabulary.

He puts Bill Nye, the "alleged" Science Guy, to shame.

I always preferred Beakman's World, myself. (In fairness to Bill Nye, he was a professional engineer, and he did study for a time under Carl Sagan.)

Do you remember Magnus Pyke, the British science presenter? Now there was a mad scientist if I ever saw one.

32 posted on 02/13/2013 9:03:44 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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