This little series hits close to home. I like to believe that when I was a young man the only reason I didn’t relax in air-conditioned comfort, strolling outside only to watch the world go by from my own balcony, was that I couldn’t afford it then, but I know that really wasn’t the case. True, I couldn’t afford it, but I wouldn’t have chosen it anyway. Sedate comfort was for old folks!
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Jackie, is this close?
https://www.convertibletopguys.com/images/conv/yygalaxie59.jpg
Close. I will find right one.
Mark I sent you photo of exact one. Can’t post here. I tried. It was a Ford Galaxie 500 XL with automatic transmission dual carburetors and the largest V 8 that Ford produced called a Police Interceptor
I believe this ultimately became the Crown Victoria that police used because they had a sedan called Galaxie Victoria.
Debbe 😉 Because there’s never too much of this trio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1wZVVMKojw
Ghost, or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416o9b_pjQk
Oh Ghost you must come to Oklahoma. My new helper is the most amazing deep red haired Irish Colleen with beautiful heart shaped face, complexion to die for and looks like either a Shakespearan sprite or the sirens in Oh Brother Where Art Thousand in the river scene your song goes to.
Of course her dad and uncle are my stone masons and lift rocks for fitness but she is beautiful beyond words.
Mark that is so politically incorrect I could have watched the sirens seduction scene and thought it more correct.
Ernie Kovacs was never PC as I recall.
Politically incorrect? 3 gorillas playing instruments in a style simulating those mechanical toys you used to see?
I was too young to remember much of his show when he died, but I have always remembered this. And from clips I have seen since, he was very funny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nairobi_Trio
Those were bar toys for men and as I recall began as satires of black face minstrels but perhaps I am getting old and confused. We did all watch him in hip college student days, considered him outrageous at things he did. I mean, this was Eisenhower and early Kennedy days.
So they weren’t satire of African natives in gorilla suits.
Any racism was not deliberate or by design. Gorilla suits have been used forever in American comedy without that bugaboo. Consider Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers in M*A*S*H:
http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mash-season-2-20-as-you-were-hawkeye-trapper-gorilla-suits.jpg
Good morning Villagers…..
Back when I lived in Corpus Christi, we would hit Padre Island beach three or four times a week, especially on Sundays. Back then you could drive and park on the island. I’m sure it has been overdeveloped since then….but those were the good old days.
Indy Mindy…you still breathing?
TR 🙂 I remember that scene…love watching the reruns of MASH.
Ian and I swapped jobs yesterday. I spent most of my time in the hen house. Believe it or not, it was cooler out there than in the packing room…just a few degrees…walked, walked, broke up egg blocks…which were always on the bottom.
Happy Caturday everyone!!!
GR 😉 did you ever play “make believe”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpyai-X3BgA
this is me 🙂 and I’m still laughing…..
http://cheezburger.com/8804529664
Debbe, I have a friend, male, who does so much stuff besides building boats, boating, brewing beer, gardening, baking, canning, cooking, smoking meats, grilling.
All in the same day.
Today I told him that whatever he was smoking, I needed some.
About Emmy Lou Harris and Making Believe. You could have gone all day and not played that one. I was already having trouble sleeping.
Sometimes the past is best not visited.
Well, Jerry beat me to the info on how tall Clark Gable was, so I’ll tell this story instead:
When my Uncle Jim was in the Air Force in WWll he said that one day he was in a tailor shop to get an alteration made on his uniform, and as he was being waited on in walks Clark Gable. Of course the clerk rushed over to wait on the movie star, who immediately waved him off with a “no, that gentleman was here first, take care of him”. Uncle Jim said they had a small chat, and Gable was very nice.
God bless us every one.
Tried to post link to Carthage, MO and the Route 66 info, Boots Motel here without success. Put it on my Facebook page with photo of Lora too. She is beautiful woman.
All this talk of convertibles makes me want to buy one and drive Route 66 once again. I hate being responsible but I just put Honda van in shop for expensive service and to do body work and paint rather than trade her in.
My daughter has two Mustang convertibles, one each for her and son in law. She has had a convertible since she got a license. It is genetic.
Well, one saying says that “life is change.” I’m sure getting the change part. It had been over 5 years since I had see the Dr.s at the local VA hospital. I had just kind of been avoiding doctors in general. Finally went back in the early part of June thanks to the encouragement of Jackie.
In that 3 week period I have: gotten new glasses ordered and also a prescription for a single power pair to use when working on the computer. Been advised to take a cardiac stress test. Had my hearing checked and found I needed hearing aids (pleural) which they will suply and fit. Found my weight was around 275 and offered a place in a weight control program, which I accepted. Gotten back on my blood pressure, anticholestrol and other medicines I need. And just yesterday was told I was diabetic and provided the testing kit and told how to use it. No meds for that yet, but they will probably be coming.
No long waits, no rude or discourteous people, facilities look newly renovated. All in all, very nice people, friendly and helpful. And you get your days exerecise walking from one building to another.
Mark
on 25 Jun 2016 at 12:26 am #
Ghost, or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416o9b_pjQk
Saw this on live TV. Ernie was an incredible innovator.
Posted above before reading rest of comments
Glad you are getting what you need.
Glad you had a good experience at the VA hospital. Obviously, some are different! My daughter, a vet, goes to the one in Huntington, WV. NOT the same story! She has a 6-mo. wait for one doctor. Unless it is a standing appointment, the wait time is usually at least 3 months. If one goes to the ER, if you are not bleeding it can be 8 hrs.
Thanks, Old Bear.