Posted on 09/22/2013 10:08:53 AM PDT by Bender2
Lost in the 1950s- The Cherry Bowl Drive In
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The Cherry Bowl Drive In... 
is located about an hour south of Traverse City on US-31, just outside of the small town of Honor [Michigan]. It is proudly ‘family owned and operated since 1953′. A trip to The Cherry Bowl is like stepping back into the 1950s.
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"Queer" meant what "gay" means today. Language is living, alive, and dynamic. I don't like that language is that way, but it doesn't care what I like or hate. Language is dynamic.
was released in 1959, 'gay' was defined... 
as A: carefree and merry - B: brightly colored; brilliant - C: given to pleasure, esp in social entertainment
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Never can have too many Rod McKuen records, I always say. Well 3. 3 of them are probably enought (Beatsville, Time of Desire (I think this one is like Beatsville but haven't heard it), and the Beat Generation single).
I own 11 of those records. Props (and worries about NSA cameras) if you can identify which they are.
Pat Boone probably...
Well, not in 1957...
>>Festus is the one that surprised me.
I’ve got the single of Jack Webb singing Try A Little Tenderness but not the album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sixNZWWh7aM
A little lower energy in the delivery than Otis Redding gave it.
Thanks!
Film is not obsolete. The corporations are pulling the plug on it. REELS of film are becoming obsolete because even “revival house” theaters are scrap piling their film projectors and going “digital projection only”.
Projected film puts your brain into a different psychotropic state than projected video does (one is strobed still images seen in rapid succession, the other is alternating scan lines beamed at you).
Just as fluorescent lighting is not making filament light bulbs obsolete (corporate legislation is prohibiting their continued production).
Vinyl was declared “obsolete” by a music industry (that happened to also be conglomerate owned by electronics firms hellbent on selling new technology). They got about 10-15 years of inflated profits reselling the public albums they already owned at market colluding higher pricing (it cost more to make a cassette tape than a CD but CDs were price fixed to almost double the street price of a cassette release).
CDs are now going away but vinyl is still in demand (new and used).
I’m tired of the “better mouse traps” that are not better and have not replaced the previous technologies by consumer demand for the change.
it made me stop because I KNOW I've seen it before. Funny thing, and I never thought about it until reading this thread, but I don't remember my parents playing records, ever. That was something my siblings and I did. I remember my grandmother had a huge console-type record player but again, I don't ever recall listening to, or seeing, records that she owned.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Curtis: "Curtis was a singer before moving into acting and combined both careers once he entered films, performing with the popular Sons of the Pioneers from 1949 to 1953 as well as singing with the Tommy Dorsey band. Curtis replaced Frank Sinatra as vocalist for the Dorsey band. He was with the Dorsey band in 1941, prior to Sinatra's departure, and may have served simply as insurance against Sinatra's likely defection. Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra, in 1942. Curtis then joined Shep Fields and His New Music, an all-reeds band that dispensed with a brass section.
"Columbia Pictures signed Curtis to a contract in 1945. He starred in a series of musical westerns[4] with The Hoosier Hot Shots, playing singing-cowboy romantic leads. For much of 1948, Curtis was a featured singer and host of the long-running country music radio program WWVA Jamboree."
Curtis also sang in many of the films he made with John Wayne such as Rio Grande, The Quiet Man and The Searchers.
And to hear Festus sing, click HERE!
Just goes to show you cannot judge a book by its cover... 
or a cowboy by his looks!
William Shatner appears on a new album of prog rock with Nik Turner coming out soon.
https://soundcloud.com/cleopatra-recs/the-prog-collective-in-our
His last album had guest musicians like Bootsy Collins, Dave Davies, and Peter Frampton
He just keeps trekking on.
From Rio Grande
OMG, I used to have this record!
I wish I’d had the Roy Orbison EP(?) Who owned London Records then? (Allen Klein had it later.)
” or even knew that Robert Conrad sang “
I have the complete Hawaiian Eye Series on DVD and he did sing “ Pretty Baby “ in one episode . Not bad .
It actually has Lt. Tragg reciting Beat! Among other greats, it starred Bobby Troup as "Buzzy," a stoner jazz pianist (absolutly hilarious) into the Beat scene. He'd say stuff like, "The squares, man. Too many squares." And be taken seriously!!! {^) It's a great episode. Ker-aaaaayzeeee.
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