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"I was thinkin' of growing a moustache, but they don't let you wear 'em at Annapolis." - Eddie Haskell, "Leave It to Beaver"

Archive for August, 2007

Squiggy

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

I was never a huge fan of Laverne & Shirley, but growing up in the fabulous 1970’s, I’m sure there were numerous occasions where it was on the television in front of me and I was watching. And who at that time hadn’t heard of greasers and weirdos Lenny and Squiggy? So it was neat […]

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The Culver Hotel ‘07

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Originally, to me, the Culver Hotel was merely a Laurel and Hardy film location. Seen in several of the Laurel and Hardy silents, such as Putting Pants on Philip, We Faw Down, Leave ‘Em Laughing, and Forty-Five Minutes from Hollywood, among other Hal Roach silents starring Our Gang and Charley Chase, the hotel has always […]

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Ponyboy

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

The Outsiders certainly ranks somewhere high in my echelon of movies. A cult-classic from 1983, I well-remember the Outsiders craze that swept the teenage girls of the day when they saw this band of attractive guys (and mostly future stars) in the single-page pinups in teenybopper magazines like 16. At the head of the heartthrobs […]

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Washington D.C., Colonial Beach, Pope’s Creek, Stratford, Port Royal, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Richmond, Charles City, Williamsburg, Jamestown, Roxbury, Brookneal, Appomattox, Lynchburg, Lexington, Staunton, Charlottesville, Stanardsville, Barboursville, Montpelier, Orange, Culpeper, Arlington, and back to D.C. If it exhausted you to read all of these Virginia cities, imagine how I felt after visiting all of them over […]

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Joe Cobb 1980

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

I can’t say that I actually remember meeting Our Gang member Joe Cobb during Hollywood ‘80, but I always knew that I did because he signed my little blue autograph book. Now I am doubly certain as my friend Jimmy just sent me a nice shot of Joe Cobb at the Hollywood ‘80 convention, with […]

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