Recent content by rjb1

"That's just a generation whose popular culture I can't stand." It's a free country. No one asked you to like it...

The folks who are taking shots at George Lucas for "American Graffiti" just weren't there at the right place and time to experience for themselves what he was portraying as an autobiographical account of what he experienced growing up in Modesto, CA in 1962. I was in exactly that sort of...

I guess I'm a child of the Cold War, but when I saw all those references to lurking and creeping and watching I kept thinking "KGB".

Actually, your steel/marshmallow analogy has some validity. Modern cars have a lot of "soft" things (crumple zones and air bags) to absorb the energy in a crash. Older cars don't have those - but that doesn't stop me from wishing that I still had my old '65 Chevy Impala fastback. (Speed...

To add a data point to the original question as to whether the WWII-vets cared about James Bond and James Bond movies, in my case the answer is definitely not. I know for sure that my Dad never went to see a JB movie, and I would bet all the money in my pocket that his same-age friends never...

I haven't looked at a new mattress in detail recently, but didn't they change the exact wording of the tag so that it was clear that the warning only applied to the mattress sellers, not the final buyer? If my recollection on that is correct, I believe there was discussion at the time of the...

Does this remind anyone else of those old mattress tags?: "DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG UNDER PENALTY OF LAW" ("National Lampoon" had a cover-cartoon of cops busting in on a guy who was in the process of removing the mattress tag.)

Among other things here, one of our local State (TN) Parks was built by the WPA. (I guess the park itself was made by Nature, but the infrastructure was done by the WPA.) Each year they have "WPA Days" at the park to commemorate those origins. People come in 1930's outfits and display and...

Good shots from Pigeon Forge, TN (just outside the Smoky Mountains Park). Some of the strangest tourist traps I have ever seen... It's been quite a few years ago, but I remember seeing a sign saying, "See the Smoky Mountain Porpoises". What!!??

Just what the world needs - more 4 year old "truth seekers". You can "seek the truth" when you grow up. Let the kid be a kid and believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Great Pumpkin until they grow out of it on their own. However, if you're going to turn the poor unfortunate kid...

I was going to say something original along the lines of what 2jakes and Lee rider just said, but they said it for me. Read each of those again for me.

Very nice cameras. I don't know if I could have resisted temptation to get more. What others did they have? Check here for a great Kodak sales pitch for those.: http://kodak.digitalfx.tv/

I'm pretty sure the singers are "The Sons of the Pioneers". They were in a LOT of Western movies. (I agree that Buddy Holly, and Rock and Roll in general, was good music. I liked it then and I like it now.)

The Old West - even when it wasn't old - had a dramatic quality to it that captured the world's imagination. It's hard to believe, but Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack Omohundro had a stage show that they presented back East in 1872(!) about the "Wild West". Wild Bill Hickok joined them in the show...

I'm surprised that I had never heard of the Guntown Mountain location near Cave City. I have driven right by there a number of times. The other Kentucky location is about 75 miles from that one, near Hopkinsville...