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At 64, "Spanky" did better than most of his "gang". Here's a round-up of him and the others mentioned above: George "Spanky" McFarland, October 2, 1928 – June 30, 1993, aged 64. Cardiac arrest. Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, August 7, 1927 – January 21, 1959, aged 31. Homicide (during an argument over $50). Darla Jean Hood, November 8, 1931 - June 13, 1979, aged 47. Acute hepatitis/heart failure. Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, July 5, 1932 – August 31, 1948, aged 16. Traffic collision. Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, March 12, 1931 – October 10, 1980, aged 49. Heart attack. Robert Blake, currently 84. |
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My older sister and I were also expected to be "little ladies". Shopping trips DTLA were marred by the hats and gloves requirement and the dreaded, itchy and scratchy petticoats. The polar opposite of my sister, who never seemed to damage or even soil her clothing, I was not "lady" material. My mother would pick through my pathetic collection of left-hand gloves (I'd lost all the right-hand ones) to try to find two that were less stained than the others. I would be instructed to hold these (à la odinthor's mom) to project the required "gracious" image, but I usually had them balled up in my sweaty fist, employing them to wipe my runny nose. |
Another facet of being genteel, along with the matter of gloves, I vividly remember how it felt here in So Cal when the department stores started ignoring the real or imaginary Sunday laws, and started being--gasp!--open on Sundays. We'd skulk out of the house and drive to a farther shopping center to lessen the chance that a neighbor would see us disgracing ourselves by shopping on a Sunday! :diablo:
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I met Spanky McFarland in Universal City at a home video trade show (VSDA) for the area. I'm guessing they were releasing Our Gang on VHS? I got his autograph. At some point I got Tommy "Butch" Bond's autograph, too. Quote:
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Santa Ana winds drive me crazy. So do remakes of great films. |
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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4742/...c6b3f419_c.jpg Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer by Kimberly, on Flickr |
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It operates on many file types It will invert and modify color I have tried its resize function and that seems to turn the image to mush A search for "freeware" should provide many choices Photoshop is $$ and may be overkill for most folks Photo Shop Elements may suit many folks I am upset by Adobe's decision to make it a subscription. Recent update versions appear to be aimed at teenies and their cellphone pix OMG!. The older tools are still in there, apparently somewhere, but relearning the drilldown is too painful to justify the new price structure. Online support was unable to explain the how to |
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The dance scene of the Sharks v Jets street fight were cool- one's imagination did the fill-in. The movie is awful- and what could even Spielberg do to change that? Dancing while singing in real streets is to say at the least um, silly , awkward, embarrassing to view, unconvincing that gangs would actually do such. My children have only seen the movie and gag at the mention of it, unprompted by me. [Although I do offer to put it on the teevee in their presence, simply to verify their gag reflex] I can't blame them cuz it's in color, and they automatically reject any B&W movie with the possible exception of "Young Frankenstein" |
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The best free paint program I've used is paint.net. It handles layers, level adjustments, resizing etc. You can make donations via PayPal if you like it, but you don't have to. The last update was just two weeks ago. |
Since we're talking about Palm trees--er, we were talking about Palm trees, weren't we?--looky here:
https://s26.postimg.org/ryqsboftl/Fan_Palms2_L.jpg both, odinthor collection The left-hand picture, I picked up on eBay quite some time ago. Unless vague memory deceives me, it was represented as being a view of Los Angeles (and I wouldn't have purchased it if it weren't). Likely it was originally out of a book or periodical telling some tale of old L.A. I exercised to exhaustion the several brain cells I have which still work trying to figure out just what L.A. site in reality they were trying to show, when suddenly--quite some time ago--it struck me that the Palms seemed to have been modeled on the Palms in what I call the Aliso Mill view (on the right). "So what?" Well, yes--"so what" indeed; but I thought that perhaps y'all would like to see these two images in tandem, and that perhaps y'all might have some observations on same. |
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As you no doubt know Slim, Venice was sketchy in the 1980s too.
It's the only place where I have seen a murder victim. The young man was shot in the head beneath one of the picnic pavilions (shown below). https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/eY68GB.jpg flickr I'll never forget; there was a stream of blood all the way out to where the cement reaches the blacktop. What's strange is...I don't remember what I did after that. Did I turn around and go back home? (most likely) Did I sunbathe and swim in the ocean? (probably not) |
Venice was the first place I saw junkies nodding from Heroin. Passed out under the arches in front of that building Pacific Avenue, which at that time - 1966 - 70 - was a falling down ratty dump.
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As it says at the top, Carrie Jacobs-Bond was very attached to her home to the point of naming her biography after the house https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/JvVEie.jpg The End of the Road Yes, that's right, she called her house 'The End of the Road' (Pinehurst Road dead-ends at her home) Was the house on Pinehurst the location of her son's suicide? If so, maybe Jacobs-Bond began having bad memories and decided to move out. (but the suicide happened many years earlier in 1931) so there's that :shrug: ___ update: The website Silents are Golden has Elliott Dexter living in the Jacobs-Bond house in the early to mid 1920s. so if the dates are correct, the Dexters lived in the house briefly in the mid 20s. So did Carrie Jacobs-Bond move back in after their departure and lived there until her death in 1946. (I'm going to go with this theory for now) until my next theory (see below) Why did she leave her house in the 1920s? Maybe she didn't....perhaps the Dexters lived with her. sidenote: This same website has Elliott Dexter and his wife, Marie Doro, living in this Georgian in 1917. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/WEs83Q.jpg 1917 fan magazine movies silently __ |
The former ARCO on Olympic has been re-purposed as a Goodwill.
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Elliott Dexter's wife is very interesting looking.
Marie Doro. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/lkQKhk.jpg odinthor, what plants do you see? ;) __ I think I see bluebells... |
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