c1867. Print shows illustrated title page to sheet music for Suspension Bridge Grand March by Henry Mayer, which celebrates the opening of the John A. Roebling Bridge on the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky.
The More You Drive, The Less Intelligent You Are
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Eerie Street
1971-73 horror host show with Alexander. Green Bay, Wisconsin.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4782850/
https://milwaukeehorrorhosts.com/Green_Bay_hosts_inline.html
Monday, March 28, 2022
Organon, Inc., West Orange, New Jersey. Laboratory
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Friday, March 25, 2022
Svengoolie: The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Directed by Robert Florey. Peter Lorre. Curt Siodmak script. The disembodied hand story has been used many times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_with_Five_Fingers
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68266/the-beast-with-five-fingers#articles-reviews?articleId=33768
Thursday, March 24, 2022
River rapids, bridge
c1922. Photograph shows the Chittenden Bridge over the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming.
Price, Albert M., 1873-1957, photographer
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Elderly couple and their automobile "home"
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Monday, March 21, 2022
Louisiana. Ruston. Louisiana Industrial Institute and College biological laboratory
Photograph shows seven young women in laboratory with instructor.
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1920]
Sunday, March 20, 2022
The X-Files - The Rain King
Season six DVD. Episode 8. Aired January 10, 1999. My birthday. A man in Kansas claims he can control the weather.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_King
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Yesterday's Enterprise
Season three, episode 15. Aired Feb. 19, 1990. This is one of the best episodes of the whole series. Two Enterprises, two crews, altered timelines, only Guinan notices something wrong.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Saturday
Look at the size of that open thread. I slept on the new sofa earlier and had coffee and watched Svengoolie. Kolchak on now on Me-TV.
Below is what I did just now as I lost everything I needed for the open thread. Aw!
Longtime readers will remember the Saturday open threads traditionally had Charles Grodin. No.
Popeye (1980)
Directed by Robert Altman. Free with Ads on Youtube. Cast to the 40 inch living room TV. Robin Williams. Spinach. An odd one. I love the set design in this. Good cast. You never know with Altman. It made $60 million on a $20 million budget so not a flop. Paul Dooley on Random Roles interview link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_(film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/popeye-1980
The Gumball Rally Tenspeed & Brown Shoe & Fridays 1980 ABC Friday Night Movie Promo
Spotted another Star Wars reference in this promo for Fridays. Ernie Anderson. 1980.
Friday, March 18, 2022
Thursday, March 17, 2022
The bridge, Venice
Print shows arched bridge with one pedestrian climbing it, reflected in canal waters, Italy.
1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966, photographer
1908.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Ford automobile in creek in Oldham County, Kentucky
c1930. Photograph shows woman in Ford automobile with 1929 Kentucky license plate crossing creek bed.
Helen Duncan
From Wiki - a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims. She was famous for producing ectoplasm which was proven to be made from cheesecloth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Duncan
In 1926 she developed from clairvoyant to physical medium by offering séances in which she claimed to be able to permit the spirits of recently deceased persons to materialise, by emitting ectoplasm from her mouth.
In 1928, the photographer Harvey Metcalfe attended a series of séances at the house of Duncan. During a séance he took various flash photographs of Duncan and her alleged "materialization" spirits including her spirit guide "Peggy" The photographs that were taken reveal the spirits to be fraudulently produced, such as a doll made from a painted papier-mâché mask draped in an old sheet.
https://www.curiousarchive.com/helen-duncan-ectoplasm-medium-britains-last-witch/
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Tales from the Crypt - The Switch
Season two, episode two. Directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. William Hickey, Rick Rossovich, Kelly Preston, Roy Brocksmith. This is on Youtube. I have found this series plays well late night, along with some of the other late night 80s shows like Tales from the Darkside.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716896/
https://tftc.fandom.com/wiki/The_Switch
Monday, March 14, 2022
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Most Toys
Season three, episode 22. Saul Rubinek. Data is kidnapped by an unscrupulous collector. The book Cadillac Jack by Larry McMurtry, he knew a collector that had a room with unique objects, but nobody had ever seen them or knew what they were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Toys
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Friday, March 11, 2022
The Frighteners (1996)
Directed by Peter Jackson. Michael J. Fox, Peter Dobson, John Astin, R. Lee Ermey, Jeffrey Combs, Trini Alvarado, Dee Wallace Stone, Jake Busey, Chi McBride.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frighteners
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-frighteners-1996
The Island (2005)
Directed by Michael Bay. Free with Ads on Youtube. Contrast this with The Island (1980). Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Steve Buscemi, Sean Bean, Ethan Phillips, Michael Clarke Duncan. I also have Parts: The Clonus Horror on VHS, which this is very much like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-island-2005
https://observationdeck2.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-island-1980.html
https://www.avclub.com/the-island-1798200930
