Posted on 01/30/2016 3:57:23 PM PST by COBOL2Java
I vaguely remember Rin Tin Tin. My brother and I watched it a few times, but it never caught on with us.
I believe it was on close to my Friend Flicka.
I think that kind of thing is typical with kids, at some point.
My Dad (WWII Marine vet) used to watch war movies and I remember one particular show that he liked called ‘Combat’.
One day I came down with a horrible fever - probably ‘flu; and I seem to have dreamed/hallucinated that all these enemy soldiers had invaded our house, were surrounding my bed, and getting ready to kill my family.
I got up, vomited all over the bathroom, and went back to bed. Then those nasty guys were gone ;-)
-JT
The racists in Georgetown didn’t want a metro stop, and now the closest one is across the Key Bridge. I’ve walked it (one round trip). If they link the metro to the hipster bars and restaurants, they might get some business. But I can’t see it having an impact on the vehicular traffic.
It seems to me that a ferry would be more practical; I think White’s is the only one still operating across the Potomac (???)
-JT
My big weakness came suddenly one night watching the Whirlybirds.
The plot involved a Gorilla escaping from a railroad car and roaming the countryside.
At the time I lived on a farm, nearest neighbors a mile away. That night I had a dream hundreds of Gorillas were coming across the old dirt road from the woods and invading our farmhouse.
That and the Wizard of Oz made for some very interesting nights.
In those days I slept on the second floor of the farmhouse, with no heat. We went to bed with a brick headed on the old wood stove, wrapped in newspaper.
Say what you will, but that kept us warm.
And let’s not even talk about the trauma to kids, of the original King Kong movie! The early scenes of that movie - the big wall with the gate, the suspense - are the scariest thing I recall seeing on TV as a kid.
(The heated brick is a great idea for the Prepper thread ;=)
-JT
It can’t be any higher than the Key Bridge. Two of the main helicopter routes in town are pinned down to 300 feet and below right there.
They’re beautiful dogs but they have a LOT of energy.
Hope they’re built to float.
Wow, that’s a stupid idea! I bet it would get a few dozen tourists a day. Period.
The graphic is even a terrible photoshop, with no scale... unless they exoct the gondolas to be 100 feet tall.
I don’t think that practicality is the point of the project...
-JT
I had to look that up. It’s kinda...nasty.
G’Nite!
-JT
The longer the ride the longer the quickie.
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