Someone mentioned this early series recently. I suppose it was inspired by my own first car, an old ’56 Chevrolet Bel Air. I chose a ’57 model for the comic strip, though, because it was the pinnacle of the iconic ’55-’57 line of Chevys. This was perhaps the first series of Arlo & Janis strips on a theme. I will show the others over the next couple of posts.
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Thanks Jimmy. My maternal grandparents had a ’57 BelAir coupe. I remember family road trips in that car for the early part of my life. My right little finger has a permanent crook from being shut in the door by my grandfather. Lots of good memories,although the broken finger isn’t one of them!
@Jackie,
I Like all the strips, Janis is a plus, but it is Symply the way Arlo looks at life that captivates me….for all the things he and I have in common, I just can’t go with the flow as easily as Arlo….always fighting the Fargone current. As far as U2 and Moodys, I’d do both if $ did not matter and you can handle the volume of U2, I still can.
Tonight a former roadie from Symply Fargone Productions invited me to
a performance by Flogging Molly at the Worcester Palladium, I will be rubbing elbows with the millennials tonight, an Irish punk band I believe in the style of Dropkick Murphys for those from the Boston area.
For a quick idea just found this on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98prxewpcow
@JJ,
This is really quick the changing of the posts, love the volume dizzy with following the topics….not bad just different.
A happy Sunday to the village, off to change all the filters in the house so I can watch some games before the music…did you guys see the Celts are in 1st(I know only matters to me!)
I like baseball, but none of the others. One of the first things that Jimmy posted of money in the old blog was for the Woodward Dream Cruise that ran through my neighborhood. Because of the great inconvenience, I often went out of town. However I did have a great love and respect for the old timers that pur their blood sweat & tears into restoring their” first love” and the pride that they had for it. However I didn’t care for the guys that used their cars for status.
Thanks for the Facebook posts. It helps notify us that a new thread is on the blog.
And we’ve replaced one earworm with another 🙂
@Symply – A band that recapitulates the Dropkick Murphys sounds like Gen-X nostalgia for the Millennials, is that a thing? The Palladium wasn’t really operating in the Gen-X years, nor was the MBTA Worcester line. We had to take a bus into Boston.
But then I got a roommate with a ’57 Biscayne.
Symply, an Alabama Celtic band, quite good. Playing in this video in a local arts/music festival in Northport, AL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnCVoxsbha8
This looks like my grandparent’s car: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b7/db/c6/b7dbc6714084017b93e626f1246971d7.jpg
Enjoying the dizzying pace of posts from Jimmy. Keep it up, your posts bring out the lurkers and new Villagers.
We had a 56 Chevrolet as I recall and a 59 Chevrolet too but not 57. In the 50s we were overseas with Gulf oil and came back to United States every two years for a couple months. The company had some kind of deal where employees used cars, then gave to next family to use.
My family in Louisiana drove Ford’s and Mercury.
Symply, we will go see both. Moody Blues is on sale, U2 isn’t yet. I will put Ghost into buying Moody Blues today. I hate doing seating chart purchase on computer or ohones.
The entire floor for U2 is standing. Forget that! I want reserved seats!
Where is best seating on the huge arenas like BOK in Tulsa? I have no idea.
I should consult you for who to see Symply. Ghost and I both like Moody Blues and U2.
Dear General Motors:
If you reintroduce the 1957 Chevrolet, with modern technology and made from modern materials, you will make a freakin’ fortune. You’re welcome.
/s/ Ghost
p.s. Don’t wait until those of us who remember and appreciate the ’57 Chevy get too old to drive. Also, consider the 1972 Chevelle Malibu convertible. (I had one of those.)
https://www.schmitt.com/vendio/cc2101.jpg
Jackie: http://www.bokcenter.com/fa-content/uploads/2017/09/MoodyBlues.pdf
From the Bok website.
You might like this too: http://www.bokcenter.com/events/#!/lindsey-stirling/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RkSy6ElNIY
A sample of Ms. Stirling
Lindsey has also been Dancing with the Stars these past few weeks… and proves she can dance without a violin. 😉
We got good seats for Moody Blues. Ghost says should be the arena equivalent of 30 yard line.
U2 is not on sale yet. I checked Lindsey Sterling and can’t figure out seating charts and tickets. Will work on that later.
That video looked like the white out version of Elvira doing the Sugar Plum Fairy. Ghost will like that.
58 Chevy Bel Air for us—Jim’s car when we got married. Good car. Pontiacs growing up for me.
In the first panel that shows the car, I knew it was a 57 Chevy.
I would also have known if it had been a 58 Ford, 59 De Soto or 66 Buick.
The years between 1956 and 1960 was the perfect storm of kids and cars. My age was 11 thru 15. During this time period, the cars changed with each model year. I know most of my contemporaries here remember that as early teenagers we knew every, fin, molding, grill, taillight and accessory of every car made during the period.
Beyond 1960 the shape of cars meant less and the shape of girls, more.
Today, all the cars look alike. Fortunately that is not true of girls.
TD
Shopping for Thanksgiving dinner in case I don’t feel as well when it arrives. Rib Crib is smoking our turkey, stuffing and gravy will be modified instant mixes, cranberries canned.
Ghost is making his mama’s traditional asparagus casserole. I will make and freeze my sweet potato shuffle with pecan brown sugar crust and a pan of my corn pudding, both to be stuck in freezer to cook later.
Ghost is making his pumpkin bisque and I will make a reduced sugar pecan pie.
Symply,
In the same family as Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, is the German band Mister Irish Bastard.
As I am sure I’ve written before, my first car was a ’57 Chevrolet, purchased from my father in fall ’61 as I entered grad school. Sometimes, I went to the Douglas County courthouse when the new plates became available to try for a low-numbered plate. Lowest I ever got was twenty-something. Maybe Nancy or Jim did the same.
Grew up with Fords in the ’40s, a 1940 and, in ’49, a 1947 (the memory may not be perfect). After that, a blue Studebaker came in the early 1950s. That one was a new car, not used. No doubt, it lasted until the 1957 new Chevrolet became possible. We chose the Chevrolet over the Ford and Plymouth because it had ample headroom for me; the other two didn’t and I was getting to be rather a sprout.
Not a bad video linked above, but I’ve been spoiled ever since a performer allowed me to hold his Strad! I felt highly honored.
Steller’s sea lions males sound all very territorial. In strait N. of Vancouver I.
https://explore.org/livecams/orcas/orcalab-steller-sea-lion-haulout
Peace,
Large group of sea lions off Port Townsend which is South of Vancouver on Puget Sound. They are out on island in bay but they make so much noise it sounds like they are just below my hotel window offshore.
My first was a 58 Belaire. Baby blue with a 283. I got a 67 Tempest from my dad and put some 60s on the rear with chrome wheels. I was always being invited to race since the Tempest was basically a 4 door version of the GTO with a 2 barrel engine and powerslide tranny. Got 21mpg though. My mother had a 63 Chevy with a 409. Complained until she died that she never had another car that was near as powerful. Those were the days when you could tell 1 car from another. Now they all look the same with different name badges.
Mark: Henri’s Notions are pretty good. Local Celtic group Caeli, also good, just three women, incl. widow of one of BSU/Biology’s prize students, too young, of a brain tumor. Brilliant, avid fisherman, agnostic U/U pacifist, originally intended to be an ALC or LCA [now combined as ELCA] pastor. Not worried about Dann’s salvation.
All cars look alike? One Buick line still has those stylized fake supercharger holes in front of the doors that first showed up in ’42 models, I think [maybe ’46]. Two widow neighbors, both Gloria, have current supercharger-hole Buicks. Headroom: Prius has good headroom. My pastor son doesn’t have to tilt the seat back when he drives my car. Mentioned ages ago that our first car, ’54 [second year in Ann Arbor, MI] was a used ’50 Pontiac Silver Streak. I learned to drive in that, mostly rode subways until then. Real cities have subways, here and overseas.
Peace,
47 mpg.