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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..
Comments: Ginger, your video is most entertaining. San Francisco was a busy place 100 years ago. What finally struck me was that I only noticed about 3 women in that entire video. It is fun to watch the pedestrians dodging the old autos and standing on the cable car track til the last second. Lots of horse-drawn wagons. I was surprised at how tall the buildings were. Just this week I ordered/received a set of CD's of the first season (39 episodes) of the old western tv show "Paladin". If you recall, he was based in San Francisco in the era around 1875. It must have been easier to find people back then. Remember his business card read something like: Have Gun Will Travel Wire Paladin San Francisco
Comments: I remember the smell..It didn't go away..easily...G.. 
Comments: Those cattle between Dallas and Waco were in Milford, TX at some fattening pens owned by the Neuhoff Meat Co. I could not get "that" smell out of my car for about 50 miles driving between Oak Cliff and Austin.
Comments: This is the neatest old film.. I hope I type this in right... 104 yr old cable car ride in SF..It was made right before the great California earthquake... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k I had to type it in or so my browser said... I sent it to Southworth..so he might can send the history behind it...I've got an old computer and Mozilla Firefox.. G..
Comments: I had a piano professor at the Univ. of Memphis(Memphis State) in the 70's that smoked pipes that were spiked with brandy..It added to his mystique...He had a 'studio' of women, too..One of the male students pointed that out to us.. I would get anywhere 'near' his studio and you could smell that tobacco smoke.. He's retired now and in and out of Tn...(I don't know if he wore cologne or not because the pipe smoke seemed to be his 'scent'... You know those memories seem to get more 'humorous' and 'entertaining' as we grow older, but I'm sure glad to leave some of those things...behind...
Comments: I remember my court reporting years, being in depositions with lawyers reeking of Obsession after Christmas and Fathers Day. They might pick up my pen or hand me exhibits, then I'd touch my face and I would smell like Obsession all day. That was powerful stinkum.
Comments: I agree with you Ginger about the perfume. Everyone used Estee Lauder especially after Christmas, the whole North Texas campus seemed to have the same fragrance and it was strong. What I remember even more was how impressed we all were when men were smoking pipes filled with Cherry Blend.
Comments: You-all are so cool and so suave... ! I loved Ricardo Montalban... When I was at Baylor...English Leather was so, so cool... You know now, when someone walks by me with too much cologne, man or woman, I nearly 'gag'... Gone are the days.. when I was really impressed with that stuff... We wore that Este Lauder Youth Dew..and that stuff is so-o-o-o.....strong... 
Comments: Suaver than Ricardo? Hai Karate? Hmmmm....well, you're right, Jud. I married for English Leather Lime, and my husband was reeled in by my Shalimar. I might have been skinny, but I smelled good. AND I owned an aqua '64 Chevy II Nova Super Sport with genuine Naugahyde seats.
Comments: Jud, I remember that car! How many payments have you got left?
Comments: I bought a new Cordoba in '75. White, with burgundy interior. That car was a tank! Loved it. And I was even suaver than Ricardo. Had long hair and used Brut cologne! Sometimes, Hai Karate!
Comments: Oh, JS. Ricardo Montalban was soooooo suave. 
Comments: Charlotte, while you were in Cordoba did you tour the historic automobile plant? I'm assuming that's where they made the Chrysler Cordoba back in the late 1970's. You know ... the one with the "rich corinthian leather" ... Ricardo Montalban ... like that you know?
Comments: Today we were in Cordoba......oh my.........such history! I think we walked 7 miles before lunch. Tonight we are in Madrid. I have visited many of the cathedrals around the country, but the one in Cordoba is the most unusual I have ever seen. The Christian Church is built inside a mosque which is the size of a football field........whoa!! Thankfully Spain has fast trains that carry us from place to place. My husband has been working this whole time and is now at a board dinner that probably won't end until mid night........haaaa!! I hope he doesn't wake me when he returns. He will be free to go to Toledo with me on Saturday. Madrid folks say when you die you go to Madrid on your way to Heaven........I told them that we die we go to Texas! 
Comments: OK, how many motorcycle riders do we have that are attending the luncheon on May 1? This would be a great day and location to have everyone ride their scooters to the lake. Maybe we could get a special parking area? Just a thought.
Comments: Ginger, I don't remember the cattle farm between Dallas and Waco, but I do remember coming back from Amarillo and smelling the town of Hereford, Texas several miles before we drove through there. I don't know how the people of that town can stand the smell all the time. Hereford has a large cattle pen extending through (several) miles of the town where they feed cattle twenty-four hours a day. Charlotte, if you haven"t ever checked out the cathedrals in Spain, especially Sevilla, you might find looking at the "new world" gold interesting.
Comments: 4,000 Bulls, huh...That brings to mind the cattle/ steer farm that was in between Dallas and Waco, when I was traveling back and forth from Baylor Univ..It was 27,000..strong...and you could smell it for miles..I think it is gone now. There use to be a turkey farm down there, but it was the cattle ranch/farm..that was really bad.. How about 4,000 Bulls all in one place..Same smell or not..? The Feria de Abril was probably a lot more pleasant... than the bulls...
Comments: Charlotte, what a relief to learn that you're having a blast in Spain. We have friends from the Oasis Restaurant (where the elite meet to eat in Dallas) who went to the bull farm and were also impressed with it. Have fun!
Comments: Yes, we made it to Spain. We flew into Madrid and it was not a mad house...however, there were many Brits there trying to go home from who knows where. Spring has sprung in Spain and it is beautiful. We went to a bull farm outside Seville today........whoa! BEEEEEG Business. 4000 bulls a year are killed in the bull rings of Spain, Portugal, South France, South America etc etc....at least these guys live a nice life until they are 4 years old and head to the ring........unlike the slaughter house cattle who live around 9 months at the most in not so great conditions. We rode in horse drawn carriages to the Feria de Abril today which is an historic spring festival. The traditional dress is the dress of this festival and all the ladies are beautiful in their colorful dresses. We hear that the airports are opening up now so we are confident we will make it home without a hitch now....some people did not make it to this meeting because of the ash...but we forged ahead because we heard that Madrid was still landing planes. Hope all is well back in the good ol US of A!!!
Comments: Happy Birthday, Sandy Wolverton! And good skating!
Comments: Now Lynell - would you deprive a mother of a way to earn a living? Even if it was at our expense of having to endure it? So relieved we do not have to watch the horror of those performances anymore and the snide remarks about how everything else was to blame but her. She really did look worn out or drugged this week. Oh well - onward and upward with the rest of the gang. So who goes next?
Comments: Hi,Everyone! Please vote for Tim Urban on Idol 2nite.Known his family (10 kids-home-schooled) for yrs. & go to same church.Great people! Thanks.Skip
Comments: Goom-bye, Kate plus Eight lady. Go home to your litter. Good riddance from Dancing with the Stars Most People Never Heard of. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
Comments: Kathleen...I've got my digital camera working again...Maybe, just maybe I can take some pictures...
Comments: Jud, I think if...you tried real hard....you could speak 'geezer'.... 
Comments: I don't know... I've spent a lot of time in NY and I don't speak Yankee. Ditto for Florida and I don't speak Geezer.
Comments: I wonder if..she really went to Spain..or attempted it...? I wouldn't . It seems that ash is not going to go away...very fast and if the other volcano erupts...Whew!.... You know if you live somewhere for 6 weeks to 3 months..you can become 'fluent'.. Maybe Charlotte will come back speaking 'fluent' Castilian Spanish....! It could happen. ( Adios, mi amiga...Senora Charlotte.. Hasta Luego en seis semanas..!)
Comments: Ginger, I would love to see your pics of the dogwoods and azaleas in Memphis. I hope you are able to put them on facebook. |
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