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[Seahawk]

[Steve Carlton]

That and the grape crushing scene are the two best scenes I remember, and I watched a ton of those. She and Desi used 3 cameras and a live audience, maybe for the first time on that show. And she was largely responsible for keeping Star Trek going.

[GH85Carrera]

[Superman]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

That and the grape crushing scene are the two best scenes I remember, and I watched a ton of those. She and Desi used 3 cameras and a live audience, maybe for the first time on that show. And she was largely responsible for keeping Star Trek going.

It was she who bankrolled Star Trek in the first place and worked hard to get it filmed and placed on TV.

There was also that unforgettable Vegavitamin Lucy episode. She was hugely talented.

One for Dixie:

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Superman

It was she who bankrolled Star Trek in the first place and worked hard to get it filmed and placed on TV.

There was also that unforgettable Vegavitamin Lucy episode. She was hugely talented.

The more you know...I had no idea.

For me:

[flatbutt]

The candy wrapping scene

[flatbutt]

For those who wonder if his name is deserved. Even if you don't like harp hang in there until 2:30.

[astrochex]

Wow, he is very good!

[Superman]

Yes he was. Harp happens to be one of the most challenging of instruments to play well. He was also quite a lively card. Used to wake his kids up in the wee hours when he got home (he was in show business, you see) to play games. He never spoke in public except in his last public appearance when he announced his retirement.

All the Marx brothers were highly talented. Here is Chico playing piano. It's worth a look:

[GH85Carrera]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

But, the "days" aren't pitch black. The days are like dusk, where the sun is just below the horizon. It looks like there's about 5 hours of dusk type light on the winter solstice, from about 10am until 3pm. Still, I'd love to experience polar night and polar day. I have been between ~2ºS latitude and 43ºN latitude with most of my time spent around 30º. Most of the places that I've lived the sun has seemed fairly well overhead in the summer (even though it's not). But it would be interesting to visit someplace where even in the middle of the summer, the sun is still fairly low in the sky.

A day in the Polar Night

A normal “day” during the Polar Night, begins with the astronomical night which spreads over the midnight time, and is followed by a period of astronomical twilight (very early mornings), then by a period of nautical twilight (that lasts till when people start going to work in the mornings). After that, the civil twilight brings a bit of light, due to the Sun which is closer to the horizon (but still under it), which usually covers the noon period. After that, nautical twilight starts during the afternoons and is followed by the astronomical twilight during the evenings and, finally, the astronomical night takes over and the cycle repeats.

When the sky is clear, there is more light than when the sky is covered by clouds. The Polar Night is a beautiful period, when Northern Lights may dance in the dark sky and when the full moon lights up the entire winter scenery.

Polar day

[GH85Carrera]

Oklahoma City.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Oklahoma City.

Huh, there's a river in Oklahoma City. I didn't know that.



My view of the Manatee River.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Dixie

Huh, there's a river in Oklahoma City. I didn't know that.


My view of the Manatee River.

That is the Bricktown canal. Like a mini version of San Antonio river walk.

There is the Oklahoma river and the boathouse district as well.



Some of the 2028 Olympics will be held in Oklahoma City, some in the boathouse district, and some at the softball arenas like the Softball hall of fame where the Women's softball tournaments are held each year, and where the OU women's team has won the last 4 year in a row.

[GH85Carrera]

Safeway on Marina Boulevard in San Francisco in 1959. Likely all self checkout now.

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Also, Google images show Barrow, AK as a bit less magical:

[GH85Carrera]

Stefan Kudelski was the inventor of the first professional-quality portable tape recorder, which revolutionized Hollywood moviemaking and vastly expanded the reach of documentarians, independent filmmakers and eavesdroppers on both sides in the Cold War.
The Polish-born Mr. Kudelski was an engineering student at a Swiss university in 1951 when he patented his first portable recording device, the Nagra I, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, about the size of a shoe box and weighing 11 pounds, that produced sound as good as that of most studio recorders, which were phone-booth-size. Radio stations in Switzerland were his first customers.
The bigger breakthrough came seven years later, when Mr. Kudelski introduced a high-quality tape recorder that could synchronize sound with the frames on a reel of film. Mr. Kudelski’s 1958 recorder, [the Nagra III](http://www.filmsoundsweden.se/backspegel/kudelski.html), weighed about 14 pounds and freed a new generation of filmmakers from the conventions and high cost of studio production.
Along with the newly developed portable 16-millimeter camera, the Nagra recorder became an essential tool for the on-location, often improvisational techniques of New Wave directors like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, and American documentarians like D. A. Pennebaker, who used the Nagra to record the 1965 Bob Dylan tour featured in his classic film “Don’t Look Back,” released in 1967.

[Racerbvd]

[Bill Douglas]

That was what I did. Except I didn't wear a dress. I used to make up wiring harnesses for cars for a job, umm, 40 something years ago.

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

[GH85Carrera]

Maine, 1942...
Aroostook County, Maine. Everyone works on the Acadian farms...
Farm Security Administration Collection


In what was certainly Nevada’s finest hotel, the Goldfield, Nevada Waldorf-Astoria is seen here in all its opulence ca. 1905. “Come in and Eat” is written by the door.In what was certainly Nevada’s finest hotel, the Goldfield, Nevada Waldorf-Astoria is seen here in all its opulence ca. 1905. “Come in and Eat” is written by the door.