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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've seen pictures of a gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (!) that had the gas hoses hanging from an overhead gantry. It looks like they would reach any part of the car easily. I don't know why the design never caught on.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Actually, Way-Out Willie and Rockin' Millie were two characters from the 1958 Johnny Otis classic, "Willie and the Hand Jive." They never existed but for a generation they embodied rebellious, totally hip youth.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I remember Hugh O'Brien in "Seminole,"(1953). This was a Budd Boetticher film that was one of the first to turn the western on its head. O'Brien was the hotheaded young brave and Anthony Quinn was the beleaguered chief Osceola. O'Brien said don't trust the whites and wanted war with them. And...
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I just realized that Way-Out Willie and Rockin' Millie are probably in their 80s now.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A few years ago there was a movement afoot to cut holes in the deck of the U.S.S. Constitution and install ramps to allow access to the lower decks for disabled people in wheelchairs. There was a furor over this as it would ruin the integrity of a historical artifact. Those ships were never easy...
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Classics that flopped on first release

    This is about the great films that were not appreciated when they first hit the theaters, but became classics later, when they went to television/video. The earliest I can think of is Disney's "Fantasia." It had a huge Disney buildup but Middle America just didn't get the point. Way ahead of...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The best hot dogs I ever had I bought at a hot dog stand on the second level of the Eiffel Tower in 1966. It had one of those rotisserie wiener roasters like you used to see in american movie theaters and the wieners were the sort with tied-off ends like you only saw in cartoons when I was a...
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Is nothing sacred? Remaking Casablanca.

    They are not invisible. They supply the usual suspects.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I lived in Scotland in the early '70s you could get your fish&chips with "brown sauce" similar to A-1 sauce, surprisingly good.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Think of all the crazy stories that circulated right after 9/11. Nothing new about it.
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Is nothing sacred? Remaking Casablanca.

    This should spin off another thread: which classic movies should be remade? My first choice would be "From Here to Eternity." The 1953 version is a certified classic: a well-written film with a fabulous cast, serious drama meant for grownups in a way few movies are today. But it was...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Things that make you smile

    In the '50s we had the "Honest John" missile. I could never figure out why we'd name a missile for a used-car salesman.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    For many decades that red neon pegasus was an icon atop Dallas's Magnolia building. Until the 60s it was the tallest building in town. A long-lost symbol of my youth.
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Things that make you smile

    We no longer have a War Department. What we have instead is the kinder, gentler Department of Defense. So remember that when you're obliterated by a drone strike, we're doing it defensively, and with sincere regret.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    The End of the Era ...

    And people think the Teabagger/Birther/ 9/11 Truther movements are something unprecedented.
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    A movie I think richly deserves digital remastering and redistribution is "The Warlord"(1965). This film was a labor of love for its star, Charlton Heston. Based on the play "The Lovers," by Laslie Nielson, it tells the story of an 11th century Norman knight who is given a small fief to defend...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    New WWII Flick: Anthropoid

    It has occurred to me that the greatest hazard to life for prominent people in the 20th century was the open-topped touring car. Consider: 1914 Franz Ferdinand 1923 Pancho Villa 1942 Reinhard Heydrich 1963 John F. Kennedy 1981 Pope John Paul (survived) All of them shot in open...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Moonshine making during WW2?

    In the '80s I knew an elderly history professor who, during WWII, had been a member of the local draft board in a southern Appalachian county. At that time, the draft wasn't about coercing reluctant men into service. It was mainly a way of straightening out the manpower problem. In essence...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    You only know that when you're a Nobel Prize-winning author.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Amazingly, Wally Cox and Marlon Brando were roommates when they were young actors trying to break in. Jack Klugman and Charles Bronson were roommates, too. But I guess Tommy Lee Jones tops them. He was roommates at Yale with Al Gore.
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