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Old-time radio horror: "The Thing on the Fourble Board"
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| NewJerseyJoe
Posted on 10/31/2017 4:48:47 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
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posted on
10/31/2017 4:50:48 AM PDT
by
mykroar
(Congratulations President Trump)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Bookmark. Old time radio is great stuff!
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posted on
10/31/2017 4:51:19 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Definition of fourble board
:a platform at a height of 80 feet or more above the floor of an oil derrick
To: NewJerseyJoe
The Things That Would Not Fall Down!!!"
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posted on
10/31/2017 4:58:00 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
To: mykroar
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posted on
10/31/2017 5:04:08 AM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
(Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
To: vladimir998
“Old time radio is great stuff!”
Ditto!! When I was in W. Germany in the US Army, Armed Forces Radio used to run old-time radio shows of every kind around 1:30pm every afternoon. Nothing like a little Jack Benny to lighten up an afternoon.
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posted on
10/31/2017 5:09:04 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
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posted on
10/31/2017 5:26:02 AM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
To: NewJerseyJoe
When I was in high school, we listened to Orson Wells reading the War of the Worlds. Awesome.
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posted on
10/31/2017 5:28:54 AM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Of course, it goes well with what may be called the most FAMOUS Halloween broadcast, of any media, Orson Welles and "The Mercury Theatre on the Air"
CBS Radio version of H.G.Wells' "War of the Worlds" on Sunday, October 30, 1938. While the scale of the actual public panic has probably been overly magnified, being broadcast at a time when radio was THE MEDIA for news, having insufficient (in hindsight) identification as a non-news event and at a time when Europe and Asia were in full war mode jitters, made for a 'perfect storm' and did Orson Welles to top billing.
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posted on
10/31/2017 5:36:28 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: Texas resident
When I was in high school, we listened to Orson Wells reading the War of the Worlds. Awesome. You beat me to the mention but I have got the link to the broadcast IF this is what you mean by 'reading'. I say that because it really was a ensemble radio-play by a very good group of voice and sound actors. Glad we both remembered it.
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posted on
10/31/2017 5:40:14 AM PDT
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SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: mykroar
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posted on
10/31/2017 5:40:47 AM PDT
by
Bshaw
(A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
To: sockmonkey
I acutally won a trivia contest by knowing what a fourble board was. And it was because I had listened to that old radio show. It was pretty scary at that time for a 12 year-old.
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posted on
10/31/2017 5:40:54 AM PDT
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: super7man
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posted on
10/31/2017 6:02:04 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
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posted on
10/31/2017 6:02:36 AM PDT
by
BBB333
(The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
To: NewJerseyJoe
thnaks Joe- will give a listen tonight- Radio was a tough medium- so were silent movies- but at least they could express emotions liek grief, fear, anger etc with their wonky makeup lol- they eyes have it lol- loved lon chaney=- old stone face buster keaton- harold loyd- Mary Pickford etc- but never really listened to radio shows-
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posted on
10/31/2017 6:03:38 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: NewJerseyJoe
Thanks. Never knew that was what the part of the derrick was called.
To: Texas resident
When I was in high school, we listened to Orson Wells reading the War of the Worlds. When I was in high school, I had a class where we would recreate classic radio show episodes...War of The Worlds too...and then we would write and produce our own show.
The school had an FCC licensed radio station on the premises so we had full use of the facilities and equipment. I caught the bug and almost went into radio engineering. But then the computer age came along and that interested me far more.
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posted on
10/31/2017 6:37:35 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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