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Comments: Lynell, I'll take some of those funny little plants you have in your little hidden garden.
Comments: Thanks Lynell, I am glad they will come back year after year. My hibiscus didn't make it through the cold winter. So I am very glad to be able to replace them with hardier plants.
Comments: Great! Kathleen, I'm happy to hear they will have a good home. These are the kind that you plant in the ground, and they come back every year. Most of those at the nursery are tropical, and they won't make it through the winter. They make a lot of blooms and are pretty, but they make a mess on concrete!
Comments: Lynell, I would love to have your hibiscus plants, if you haven't already given them away. I will come pick them up. I was just about to buy some. Thanks, Kathleen
Comments: Anybody want five or six perennial hibiscus plants? They are dark pink and bloom prolifically throughout the summer. However, they drop big pink dried-up flowers onto our pool deck and cause stains. Let me know if you're interested. They would be great in a rural area, or on a big lot somewhere.
Comments: Didn't he do some corporate CEO type things, too..?
Comments: Ginger, his name may not stand out but you could hardly escape him during the late 1950's and 1960's. Anytime a villan or weasely character was required in a western movie ... Strother was your man. He was never a "leading man" but was a fantastic character actor. You would have seen him in The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy, Liberty Valance and on and on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o
Comments: What else did this guy/ Strother Martin do...? That's not a name that 'stands out'...
Comments: Gold Stars are in the mail to Jack and Jud from Cool Hand Johnny for their impressive knowledge of Strother Martin trivia.
Comments: Jack's right. I think the line actually reads: "what we've got here is failure to communicate."
Comments: Could it be, "What we have here is a failure to communicate"?? In Cool Hand Luke.
Comments: Today Dru and I watched the first six episodes of my new "Paladin" CD's. He was quite the man-about-town in San Franciso. These episodes aired in 1957 when I was about 12. As a youth I failed to pick up on him making passes at various questionable women who frequented the hotel he called home. So far each episode has featured a "bad-guy" who went on to later fame. Charles Bronson is the nemesis in Episode 2. Mike Connors later went on to play "Mannix". Jack Lord appears as an evil guy who fled to Mexico until Paladin returns him to the States for justice. Strother Martin shows up as a nervous defense attorney for a fellow who may be lynched by the town before his trial. Angie Dickson fires up the lynch mob to avenge the death of her brother. Looks like "Paladin" was a springboard for the careers of many budding actors. Can any of you recite Strother Martin's most famous movie line?
Comments: Lynell - I will go back to the site and review it more. I was in a hurry at the time and just checked out your suggestion. Thought it was so cute. JS - no extra money out of my pockets. Seems my Blackberry has enough choices for free so I just just some of the options on it that will keep me professional sounding when I am with the boss - you know some of us still have to work for a living. My engineer likes the olf fashion ring tone like when we grew up - that typically makes me smile unless we are in a meeting....grrrrr...
Comments: That's funny, Lynell..Really funny.... I remember Sharon Reeves saying at one of our reunions, that MMM had never darkened the door of an Adamson Reunion...So I thought it was amazing that he was finally showing up...! I'll have to ask Sandra Fant, how it went....? Of course, we all know what JS thinks of MMM...so it's fun to just razz him about it..(and throw in a smiley or 2, too....) JS...he really doesn't pay any attention to those of us that have been acquainted with his family for 4 generations.. 
Comments: Drat it, Ginger! Don't be telling JS that Adamson has finally pulled in MMM. John has already renounced his '63 citizenship to hang with the '66 SOC kids. Next thing we know, he will be decked out in blue and white, meowing like a Leopard.
Comments: JS....Did you read the Adamson63 site.. MMM was suppose to show up today at 11:00...I bet you missed it..? I think this is a 1st for him... I always say...Life is never boring...You never know what will happen or 'who' will show up....! 
Comments: I remember Burnett Field..SOC and the American Legion teams must have played there.. Larry Perry, David Crowder and Mike Russell played on both of those teams.. Many others did. too.
Comments: I actually was lucky enough to be a bat boy once for the Dallas Eagles and it was called Burnett Field
Comments: My ringtone is generic. B-o-r-i-n-g! I do like that Paladin theme though. Maybe I'll look through that website and find the theme to That Girl.
Comments: It was Mauna Kea...Mauna Loa..is the volcano... Mahalo...all....! G...
Comments: My Ringtone is Chimes.... Very peaceful and 'metaphysical'...! Well, Go Figure... The only chimes I would like better are...the kind that were ringing at the resort on the Big Island...Hawaii..by the statue of Buddha...Extraordinarily..'peaceful' chimes...It was said to be Bing Crosby's favorite place.. Mauna Kea, maybe..? or was it Mauna Loa...?
Comments: "Ringtone selection" is an interesting topic. I wonder what it really says about a person? For instance on my phone I've set several different ringtones assigned to various callers as follows: General incoming calls - Joe Cocker's "Feeling Alright" Son Matt - Joe Cocker's "Space Captain" Dgtr Jill - Sheryl Crowe's "Santa Monica Blvd" Bro-in-law - Hank Williams Jr.'s "Family Tradition" pal Dale Smiley - "Louie-Louie" former wife - Loggins & Messina's "Angry Eyes" Dru says there is no malice involved, however her ringtone is the instrumental beginning of MMM's "Wildfire". I experience an annoying facial twitch each time she gets a call. How 'bout the rest of you? Any unusual ringtones on your phones?
Comments: Cynthia, I agree that Paladin stirred up old memories. Did you look around on that website? There is some nifty stuff on there. Maybe we should all chip in and make a silver knight for JS to use as his logo. Or maybe make one out of Cheerios. The only thing scarier than a street car ride across the Trinity River was a distracted Ramona bus driver trying to make up time on the Houston Street Bridge into Downtown. Those two routes into the big city were the source of many heartfelt prayers. I preferred to ride the Lancaster bus to town because it took one of the straight bridges. However, my mother wouldn't let me cross Lancaster to catch it. I could keep a shrink busy for a very long time. Celi???
Comments: Love the ringtone Lynell. Seem perfect for Southworth with all his history reruns on the way.
Comments: Sharon,We probably x'd paths at ball games back then.I was a knot-hole clubber-got to run the bases a couple of times-WHOO!My dad's cousin lived about 6 blocks away and we walked there and back-wouldn't let MY kids do that now!
Comments: I remember the street cars very well. I lived in old, east Dallas when young and we rode the trolley downtown and across the Trinity to the baseball field to watch the Dallas Eagles. Wasn't the ballpark named Burnett Field? The Eagles were a farm team and we would always go watch when the big leaguers came to town. The thing I really remember was flipping the seats over for the ride back! I don't remember if it was our junior or senior year, but the band and debs performed for the opening baseball game. They tore the stadium down the next year. I haven't been to Oak Cliff on I-35 in a long time, has anything been built on that land?
Comments: Here's a ringtone for your cellphone: http://www.televisiontunes.com/Paladin.html
Comments: Kathleen, my mother and I would ride the streetcars on Jefferson Blvd. on Sunday Morning..We would get off at Tyler Street Or Tenth St.(whichever one crossed Jefferson), and walk the 2 + Blocks to Grace Temple Baptist Church. We would also stop at the drugstore at the corner and have a hot cinnamon roll.. Those streetcars, were beautiful..They had light, shiny oak seats. I can still remember sitting on those seats when I was about 4.. There was this 'older' lady sitting across from us, one time. and she had her hose rolled down to about midcalfe, and I remember staring at her and thinking.."That's not pretty".. 
Comments: Ginger, I enjoyed viewing the vintage film of the streets of early San Francisco. It seems that they had almost every form of transportation from horse drawn carriages, bicycles, trucks, buses and street cars. Did you know Dallas had an extensive streetcar system until the fifties when it was dismantled? I remember my mother took me to Arlington Downs on the street car to see her favorite country singer Ernest Tubb. Have any of you tried bartering with your doctor? All my doctors would bring out the guards if anyone were seriously offering them a chicken.
Comments: There were only a few women in that video.. What amazed me, was how 'bold' they were, in darting in front of the trolley. It was as if they were daring the trolley to hit them..! The history note seemed to say that the reason the film survived is because they sent it off to New York, 4 days before that earthquake.. JS...I loved Paladin...I would watch it with my grandparents, when my parents used them as 'babysitters', when they went out on a date..I spent several, several nights watching Paladin, Gunsmoke,,etc..with my grandparents.. |
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