The celebration is nice and all but here's one similar to "What if THX 1138 had been a hit".
If Cutthroat Island had been a hit, we would have seen Paul Verhoeven's Crusade. A film on you guessed it, the Crusades, it would have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall, Jennifer Connelly and John Turturro. Walon Green (of The Wild Bunch fame) co-wrote the script and it was said to be one of the bloodiest screenplays to ever get the greenlight. However the film got stalled due to budget issues and after Carolco went bankrupt, Schwarzenegger personally got the film rights.
Meanwhile, this wasn't the only time that a Schwarzenegger/Connelly pairing was announced only to not get made. The two later got attached to do I Am Legend, which would have been directed by Ridley Scott. Schwarzenegger would have played the hero, Connelly would have played his wife (reportedly, the two main female characters were combined into one). But once again, budget issues (combined with Connelly leaving acting for a few years to raise her son) led to this project not happening.
Did your grandmother also have a 1960's Zenith tube console stereo (in "rich" walnut) in the living room?
I guess I could call the diatribe below "WHAT WAS".
Ours (of course) had the three fake doors on the front (complete with handles that opened nothing no matter how much I continued to pull on them as a child) with the beige and gold thread speaker cover fabric on both sides. It also performed the duties of a good sized table with the lid down. It sat on four legs against the wall that had the stairs to the second floor.
My mother used to throw a tablecloth over it around the holidays and it was home over the years to many mixed nut and candy dishes. I can recall one holiday when my mother was even able to fit a large antipasto platter on it as well. Back then, Italian mothers used to prepare so much food on holidays they could feed an army of Norsemen. So some huge plate of food always had to spill out over into the living room.
I never had any records of my own back in the early 70's but if I did my few would probably be buried in the small side LP pocket between my parents Enoch Light and Pat Cooper comedy albums.
How did I miss this post? In addition to Enoch Light and Pat Cooper, there was The Andy Williams Christmas Album, Trini Lopez, and the famous Herb Albert "Whipped Cream and other Delights".
In order to play music, I used to reach under the tablecloth during the holidays to carefully raise the stereo lid so as not to disturb the treats!!!
Bumped for one last end-of-the-world thumb in the eye., though if those dead Mayan douche bags are wrong, it'll be right back designed to annoy, titillate, and congratulate like it's always done.
Hi Max! I'm relieved you survived the Mayan BS, too. Hope you get a chance to come to Jaxson's again soon.
I seem to remember there being a series of films starring Severn Darden as an ersatz Alan Fivehouse-type inspector in the "What Could Have Been"* thread. What were they called is there a chance the world could be not spared some more of those? I know I speak for no one when I say I loved them! The wife and I saw Darden in an episode of "Kolchak: the Night Stalker" where he displayed fake Fivehouse-like arrogance and humor. The likes of Severn Darden are sorely missed today.
We talked a bit about the "decor" in our homes growing up on the "Hawkins" thread didn't we?
Why did a lot of family photos from that period always have that pinkish hue about them?
Was that one taken with one of those inexpensive 70's Kodak cameras with the throw away cube flashes?
I love the "TV dinner tray" look of the end tables.
No ships wheel lamp though.
Well, you "asked" for it Mr Phelps..
That's me, ANZALDIMAN, at a wedding (circa 1974 but it may have been a few years later) kneeling on one knee in the front wearing the beige sport jacket and brown slacks. My youngest sister in the dark dress is pictured over my right shoulder. My bearded cousin Dan ( sitting in front with black suit) had the Basil Poledouris look going on. (Check out those shoes)
1974? You look like you want to get out of there so you can get to the TV in time to watch the latest episode of "Kolchak."
You look surprisingly timeless other than the telltale early '70s hair. Tastefully dressed, too.
Thanks for posting that, Anz. I'll be sure to add another pic of yours truly soon. I'm on vacation now, so a lot of the olde threads are going to be cropping up, much to everyone's delight, I'm sure.
This picture, with me holding my Six Million Dollar Man "action figure" is just a few feet to the left of the previous photo where I was monkeying around with the X-Wing Fighter. This is from a couple of years earlier. I want to say 1976-77.
Funny, I don't recall Steve Austin having a fuchsia jumpsuit. I remember it being red. Crazy '70s photographs...
Just to my old self's left is another huge television set as well as a glass peacock, which I have here at my house today. There was also a glass angel fish as well but someone else got. Anyway, they were both from the '60s I think. There is a scene in the Mission: Impossible episode "The Mind of Stefan Miklos" where Ad Asner's character runs a shop that specializes in glass miniatures ("Blue Jays and Swans") and I wonder if my grandparents bought theirs around the same time, circa 1968-69. That's more information than anyone should be burdened with, but I want to be burdensome today.
I remember that Steve Austin figure. It had the little clear plastic pieces that came out of his arm. And his jumpsuit was definately red. I was about 13 or 14 by the mid 70's so when all that newer neat stuff came out it was getting near the end for actually playing with action figures. My friends and I had the full sized GI Joe's and accessories.
We all got different GI Joe stuff for birthdays and such and we shared. The Helicopter with the spinning rotor, Gemini Capsule, the Headquarters, Secret of The Mummy's Tomb, German GI Joe's, African American GI Joe's, lifelike hair and beards, painted on hair with no beards, the armoured car, shoes, boots, the various military clothing and equipment, you name it.
Somebody on our block had it. And it was a rite of passage to wait for the older kids in the neighborhood when they got too old to keep their stuff to give it to us. First come first served. And so it went. Back then there was actually a cut off date to play with toy figures. If you were 14 and asked for a cool Steve Austin doll for Christmas you raised some serious eyebrows amongst the adults. Ask for a watch, or a Cross pen set for school and all was right with the world. At least in our day we actually played with the action figures. We used our imaginations and had fun during our summer vacations with friends outside in the open air.
Anyway..
The picture I posted above (as I found out later) is very popular with some of the surviving relatives on my father's side of the family because it's really the only group picture of everyone all together at one time. My father had died in 1972 several years before this picture was taken, and all of his brothers have since passed on. A few of my aunts are still alive. That staircase in the photo always reminded me of the Brady Bunch meets a banquet hall in New Jersey. There's a lot to take in in that photo, as I'm sure you are already fully aware.
I showed this picture to Max (Ed K) one day at his house for some reason and forgot it there and somehow that little photo wound up stuck on his refrigerator amongst his wide array of fridge magnets. It stayed there for a while. We laughed about that. His wife probably wondered who the hell all those people from 35 years ago were and why it was there. But there it stayed. Funny.
Keep the photos coming if you got em'. This is fun.
Yes, thirteen was the cut off year for me as well. I had the large G.I. Joe also, the one with the facial hair. There was also a karate set like Rock 'em Sock 'em robots except it was G.I. Joe. I still have my G.I. Joe book & record sets, including the mummy's tomb. I guess I was a kid when some of the stuff you played with was still around. I go on and on about it in the toys thread that zooba started.
I'm sorry your dad died when you were so young. Was he a Mets fan, too? It's a shame he missed the '73 team. I think of my own late father when sports things are on because he was such a fan of pretty much every sport. I was thinking that many of the older people in that wedding picture must have since died as well and sometimes the realization of that can be intense with all the memories coming back. Happens to me every time just from looking at one photo and then so much returns.
Speaking of Hawkins, which is where this conversation kind of began, you do know that the series is available as a made to order DVD now? Can't keep a cagey lawyer down for too many decades!
Thanks for the kind word on the photo. I'll try and find a couple others that "showcase" the decor!
If I don't hear from you before Christmas, I wish you, Donna (is she in that photo?), and Ed the best. I'm still holding out hope we will all meet at Jaxson's when they come down here again. There is a lot of Fivehouse to be discussed!
More memories and "tributes" from all the other posters here to come, seeing how "popular" the WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN thread has been over the years.
Yes, thirteen was the cut off year for me as well. I had the large G.I. Joe also, the one with the facial hair. There was also a karate set like Rock 'em Sock 'em robots except it was G.I. Joe. I still have my G.I. Joe book & record sets, including the mummy's tomb. I guess I was a kid when some of the stuff you played with was still around. I go on and on about it in the toys thread that zooba started.
I'm sorry your dad died when you were so young. Was he a Mets fan, too? It's a shame he missed the '73 team. I think of my own late father when sports things are on because he was such a fan of pretty much every sport. I was thinking that many of the older people in that wedding picture must have since died as well and sometimes the realization of that can be intense with all the memories coming back. Happens to me every time just from looking at one photo and then so much returns.
Speaking of Hawkins, which is where this conversation kind of began, you do know that the series is available as a made to order DVD now? Can't keep a cagey lawyer down for too many decades!
Thanks for the kind word on the photo. I'll try and find a couple others that "showcase" the decor!
If I don't hear from you before Christmas, I wish you, Donna (is she in that photo?), and Ed the best. I'm still holding out hope we will all meet at Jaxson's when they come down here again. There is a lot of Fivehouse to be discussed!
More memories and "tributes" from all the other posters here to come, seeing how "popular" the WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN thread has been over the years.
Oops!
My other two sisters are on the stairs. Donna is in the light blue dress on the right and my sister Joyce is almost directly across on the left next to the bannister in the dark dress.
I'm not sure if either of them would approve of me posting this old picture, but it was a long time ago in a banquet hall far far away (I'm not sure if it even exists anymore) so I really don't think they'd mind. You were brave enough to post yours. A lot of people are squeamish about posting their image on messageboards, but I figured what the heck it was just us viewing this thread anyway.
My Dad was a Yankees fan I believe, the Mantle and Maris years but he would have been old enough to remember those great Yankee teams of the 40's and 50's. He did watch Mets games on WOR TV Channel 9 on occasion and I remember him liking Ed Kranepool. Kranepool was not a star, but he was solid and played many years for the Mets and became a beloved fan favorite because he always gave 100 percent. He was also a hell of a great pinch hitter toward the end of his career. Played in 2 World Series as a Met.
I was aware that the Hawkins series was released on DVD. Eric posted about that on the vintage movie thread. Perhaps at some point the Hawkins thread on the other side can be revived and we can all discuss it again.
I hope you guys and gals do get together sometime on one of those trips to Florida. Both Ed and his wife Mary and Donna and her husband Ed are always taking trips down there in the early spring and I don't think you'd be too far away for you folks to meet and have lunch or dinner one day. I'm sure it will happen.
In the meantime, have a Merry Christmas and a great New Year. You have brought a lot of joy and laughs to my days at the board over the years. We both have a similar sense of humor and along with my back and forths with Eric and Gary on the baseball thread that has made coming here very enjoyable for over a decade now.
Merry Christmas!
This one is for you Mr. Phelps.
(Shhhhh..Don't tell anyone that he's really a nice guy.)
Funny, I thought Donna and Ed (MaxB) were married and I thought you and Ed (MaxB) were friends from back in the '70s!
Thanks for that Deacon Jones video! I couldn't stop grinning while watching it! No mention of "Be Funny or Else." Maybe they couldn't clear the rights with ABC?
Hawkins is going for a bargain of $27 so when I get it and digest the movies--which I've not seen--I will indeed bump that thread. Maybe Jim Cleveland will come back and discuss it, too.
Next year is my tenth(!) anniversary on the board. You, Anzaldiman, were the first person here to ever acknowledge or otherwise engage in discussion with me when I was a newbie. We talked about Buddy Ebsen, who had just died. This place was quite different in some ways back then.
Where was I during all of this? LOL!! No problem about the photo; that wedding was held in late 1978, and the couple is still together!
Jim, Anz and Ed(Max) ARE friends from the 70's. My Ed and I met in High School. We are planning a stay in Florida again in March. I just told my husband this morning that I need to check out Spring Training tix for the METS.
Conversations about FIVEHOUSE are best saved for Ed(Max)! MY Ed gets dazed and confused with all my WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN chatter. LOL!
Hope you get a chance to come to Jaxson's again soon.
