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Conrad Bain was on Hello Larry with McLain Stevenson who was on M*A*S*H with Mike Farrell who’s married to Shelly Fabares who was on Coach with Craig T. Nelson who was in Turner and Hooch with Tom Hanks who was in Splash directed by Ron Howard who was on the Andy Griffith Show with George Lindsey who was on Hee Haw with Roy Clark who was on The Beverly Hillbillies with Buddy Epsen who was on Matt Houston with Pamela Hensley who was on Buck Rogers with Erin Grey who was on Silver Spoons with Alphonso Ribiero who was on The Fresh Prince with Will Smith who was in Men in Black with Tommy Lee Jones who was in The Fugitive with Harrison Ford who was in Apocalypse Now with Martin Sheen who’s the father of Charlie Sheen (who was also an extra in Apocalypse) who was in Major League II with Corbin Bernsen who was on LA Law with Susan Dey who was on The Partridge Family with Shirley Jones who was on Beyond the Poseidon Adventure with Telly Savalas who was in Kelly’s Heroes with Carol O’Connor who was in All on the Family with Rob Reiner who was on The Rockford Files with Stuart Margolin who was on M*A*S*H with McLain Stevenson who was on Hello Larry with Conrad Bain.
Amazing all the people connected to Diff’rent Strokes.
... and... Carl Weathers was on Good Times, and was also on In the Heat of the Night with Carol O’Connor, who was on All in the Family which spun off The Jeffersons which once guest stared Gary Coleman, of Diff’rent Strokes. So all three of the big Seventies Sitcoms with black folks in them are connected!
Here's a little history for you. It has to do with where I plan to go fishing tomorrow......
The McCloskey Ships of The Second World War Just as steel had become scarce during the First World War, the Second World War was again consuming the country's steel resources. In 1942, the United States Maritime Commission contracted McCloskey and Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to build a new fleet of 24 concrete ships. Three decades of improvements in concrete technology made this new fleet lighter and stronger than its WWI predecessors.
SS Arthur Talbot
The ships were constructed in Tampa, Florida starting in July of 1943. The ships were built at an incredible rate, with one being launched a month. The ships were named after pioneers in the science and development of concrete. Two of the ships were sunk as blockships in the Allied invasion of Normandy. Nine more were sunk as breakwaters for a ferry landing at Kiptopeke, Virginia. Two are wharves in Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon and seven are still afloat in a giant breakwater on the Powell River in Canada.
Here's where I'm going, Kiptopeake, VA on the Eastern Shore near the north end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The old ferry landing is now a state park with a great boat ramp. A picture of the breakwater......
You can find out more here.....http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww2/