Woo hoo!! Our 1st quarter 2008 FReepathon is now underway!! Thread IV

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[Fiddlstix]

1866? huh? I guess the 3 domes threw me a little. I though a bit later than the 1860's.
The picture you posted. Man. I remember that picture. It was famous when I was a kid. I bet there was a picture of that locomotive hanging in every railroad station in the U.S. back then.

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Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	New York	$6,530.20	50	$130.60		$	$457.50	19
2	California	5,143.67	166	30.99			1,238.56	81
3	Texas	3,131.00	97	32.28			882.00	60
4	Florida	2,161.00	64	33.77			679.00	39
5	New Jersey	1,478.00	31	47.68			240.00	12
6	Maryland	1,400.00	29	48.28			215.00	14
7	Virginia	1,282.95	43	29.84			624.00	31
8	Connecticut	1,234.00	13	94.92			20.00	2
9	Pennsylvania	1,220.00	29	42.07			283.00	15
10	Ohio	1,135.00	32	35.47			510.00	12
11	Georgia	946.00	30	31.53			195.00	14
12	Washington	807.00	28	28.82			260.00	15
13	Missouri	745.00	31	24.03			180.00	15
14	Oklahoma	705.00	13	54.23			90.00	5
15	Illinois	682.00	24	28.42			237.00	14
16	Tennessee	668.00	15	44.53			83.00	7
17	Minnesota	645.00	22	29.32			60.00	8
18	Oregon	631.25	23	27.45			90.00	6
19	Montana	623.33	6	103.89			378.33	4
20	Massachusetts	613.00	21	29.19			285.00	15
21	Mississippi	610.00	9	67.78			95.00	5
22	Wisconsin	590.00	17	34.71			125.00	9
23	Armed Forces - Europe	555.00	5	111.00			25.00	2
24	Indiana	552.50	16	34.53			60.00	3
25	Colorado	551.00	14	39.36			165.00	12
26	Arizona	500.00	22	22.73			135.00	13
27	Switzerland	500.00	1	500.00
28	Michigan	445.00	16	27.81			60.00	6
29	Nevada	385.00	13	29.62			105.00	5
30	Alabama	358.00	14	25.57			258.00	14
31	Canada	350.00	4	87.50
32	North Carolina	335.00	16	20.94			90.00	9
33	Maine	295.00	5	59.00			70.00	3
34	Kansas	290.00	9	32.22			70.00	6
35	Louisiana	275.00	10	27.50			90.00	7
36	Idaho	236.00	8	29.50			105.00	6
37	Alaska	229.68	5	45.94			80.00	3
38	Wyoming	205.00	4	51.25			30.00	1
39	Utah	200.00	7	28.57			72.00	4
40	Kuwait	200.00	1	200.00
41	Hawaii	185.00	6	30.83			50.00	4
42	New Hampshire	180.00	4	45.00			10.00	1
43	South Dakota	170.00	3	56.67			50.00	2
44	North Dakota	160.00	4	40.00			10.00	1
45	Arkansas	155.00	4	38.75			25.00	2
46	South Carolina	155.00	6	25.83			85.00	7
47	Kentucky	124.00	7	17.71			10.00	2
48	New Mexico	120.00	6	20.00			15.00	1
49	Sweden	100.00	1	100.00
50	Rhode Island	95.00	3	31.67			45.00	2
51	Delaware	85.00	3	28.33
52	Iowa	80.00	4	20.00			20.00	1
53	Nebraska	67.50	4	16.88			42.50	2
54	West Virginia	55.00	4	13.75			25.00	2
55	Vermont	50.00	2	25.00			31.00	2
56	District of Columbia	40.00	2	20.00
57	Armed Forces - Pacific	35.00	2	17.50			10.00	1
58	France	30.00	1	30.00
59	Puerto Rico	25.00	1	25.00
60	United Kingdom	20.00	1	20.00
61	Germany	20.00	1	20.00
62	Japan	20.00	1	20.00			20.00	1
63	Congo	20.00	1	20.00
64	Slovakia	20.00	1	20.00
65	South Korea	10.00	1	10.00
66	European Union	10.00	1	10.00
67	Norway	10.00	1	10.00			10.00	1
Never Never Land		1,330.00	59	22.54			208.00	16
68 locations total		$42,815.08	1,097	$39.03		$0.00	$9,308.89	544

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[big'ol_freeper]

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[Fiddlstix]

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[Fiddlstix]

And with the way things are going in the GOP now, we need this forum more than ever!!

Ditto That!

[jedward]

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[Jim Robinson]

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[Fiddlstix]

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[jedward]

LOL..almost looks credible :)

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[Fiddlstix]

Okay. I've thought it over and here's my entry.
Since it's Saturday evening I guess I'd better get it done.

Film: The Little Colonel (1935) Shirley Temple
Scene: Shirley and Bill "Bo Jangles" Robinson dance up and down the staircase.

Next

Film: Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) Mickey Rooney
Scene: The Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) and his "date" Coffy Smith (Dorothy Ford) dance scene.
This scene although short is funny because Mickey at 5ft 3in tall dances with Dorothy Ford who was 6ft 3in tall.
Well, it's one of those scenes you have to see. I don't know if it should be called dancing or acrobatics. Maybe a little of both. But I found it funny.

Well, that's it.
It was a difficult choice because I like the inovative dancing of Charlotte Greenwood and James (Jimmy) Cagney not to mention Buddy Ebsen. Buddy did a great job with Shirley Temple in the film Captain January and Cagney was outstanding in the film Yankee Doodle Dandy. Charlotte Greenwood is just great in any film she was cast in.

Anyway, there you have it.

[Lady Jag]

[MinuteGal]

Hi, Fiddl.....(you need a vowel, man).....you sure got your entry in under the wire, like the U.S. Cavalry led by Errol Flynn saves the settlers from the injuns at the last minute!

I LUV your double-dancing entry, both favorite scenes of mine. I think I remember clearly every Shirley dance from all her movies. I grew up as a little kid with a Shirley Temple doll, and I wish I still had it.

The way you described the Mickey Rooney scene is the perfect visual....I laughed again reading it. In fact, your postscript notes on other dancers brought back another flood of memories. Charlotte Greenwood.....now there's a real blast from the past!

Your entry is duly noted in my "Louella Parson's Little Black Book of Five Stars and Under". Tomorrow night after my dinner with Frederick March and Charles Laughton at the Mocambo, I'll be posting the winners of our contest's trip down memory lane.

Till then, to all of you out there in the darkness of the theater, Tinseltown kisses from your contest hostest,

Louella Parsons

[bmwcyle]

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[gpapa]

1866 was what the caption said. The pic is from the C&NW Historical Society. The location of the photo of where the photo was taken was not indicated.

One of the more famous locomotives associated with Chicago is the Baldwin Pioneer 4-2-0 which pulled the first train westward from Chi-town in 1848.

Pioneer CNW 4-2-0