Do you like what you see on this
website? If you do, send me a note. Remember, I have a
different memory than anyone else. I might not remember things
the same way you do. I am also younger/older than many of you on
the 'Net!
Did you miss out on getting something with boxtops from a Kellogg's
cereal?
You may be able to buy it outright from this site. Linked to the
Cereal
City Theme Park
in Battle Creek, Michigan. Incidentally,
even though Post cereals list a New York corporate address on their
boxes,
did you know their main manufacturing plants are also in Battle Creek,
Michigan? [Is Post embarrassed about its Battle Creek
roots?
Does Kellogg have the intellectual property rights to the name of the
city?]
(This is the only place, I know of, that you'll read that fact on the
entire
internet! And it's true, write to the corporate headquarters
listed
on the box and ask!)
This is an Official LoyalTubist site which explains about how to begin
collecting Old Time Radio Programs on a Macintosh computer. But
there is a lot for all computer users.
Want to know if someone famous is still around or not? Go here
and
find out! And these guys are FAST, FAST, FAST! (with
regards
to recent deaths; they are even faster than CBS, ABC, or CNN!) It
was from this site that I first found out about the deaths of Anthony
Quinn, Hank Ketcham (who made the Dennis the Menace
comic strip), and Lani O'Grady (from Eight is Enough).
You can find out here if a certain food item is still available.
This Florida-based webstore sells food items from parts of the country
where they can't be found. Some examples include: Moxie
soda
pop; My-T-Fine puddings; Moon Pies; Bosco
chocolate
syrup (which I can buy at Stater
Brothers); and Martha White cornmeal. You can
probably
find many of the things at stores here in the L.A. area, but I haven't
seen Moxie since the last time I was in Connecticut in
1986!
Come to think of it, I haven't seen My-T-Fine puddings in a
long
time, either (Did they ever sell in California? Even though I'm a
native Californian, I've lived in other parts of the country and
sometimes
everything gets mixed up in my brain.) There is a page on this
site
which list things which don't exist anymore. There are no
descriptions
of these but there are hundreds of products listed! You can also
request products. (For everything else, there's a picture.)
I think I want to request Pocari
Sweat. It's an athletic beverage from Japan, something
like
Gatorade.
They sold it on the island of Guam. I don't think they sell it
any
other jurisdiction of the United States. The stuff is terrible
but the name is fun!
This is the most popular English language newspaper in the Republic of
Indonesia. If you live there, it is the only way to stay in
contact
with what one needs to know (even if some of the information is
inaccurate).
Television news in Indonesia tends to be several months late.
Radio
is good but foreign stations are often subject to "jamming."
Listen to radio from the island of Guam. There is a great
nostalgia
show from 6 p.m. to midnight Guam time on Saturday nights called "Juke
Box Saturday Night." Otherwise, is a normal American
talk
station (ugh!) with the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bruce
Williams.
[Guam
time = GMT/UTC + 8 No daylight
savings
time.] Requires RealPlayer to hear programs.
This has recipes you can't find this side of the border! Too bad
you can't order the free cookbook offered on the site (unless you have
a Canadian address!) To get a font that looks just like Alpha-Bits
cereal (this is from Canada, too), log onto this
link.
Jack's "Killer" Page of Old Time Radio is dead and no longer on
the net. So much of that page was not working anyway. Lou
Genco's
site not only covers radio but other aspects of nostalgia. For
those
who are interested, SPERDVAC is the Society for the
Preservation
and Enjoyment of Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy. Members
get
access to their vast library of OTR programs. You can find out
about
SPERDVAC on Lou's page.
Just to prove that I am not original, I saw this website after I began
mine. It focuses on Los Angeles. (I actually got my idea
for
this site from a Ralph Story documentary on KCET
channel 28!)
Make popular fast food and popular grocery items in the privacy of your
own home. Save money and have fun. Make candy bars, fried
chicken,
tiny hamburgers, and so forth. You've seen the book and wanted to
buy it. Most of the recipes from it are online! A few weeks
ago, the site featured the recipe for In 'n' Out Double-Doubles!
This is the official website of the International Tuba-Euphonium
Association,
formerly known as Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (or
T.U.B.A.)
Find out here about what's happening in the Tuba World. My list
of
tuba manufacturers (newly edited and rearranged) is accessed here.
Learn about the antics of Larry, the tuba playing cucumber, and
Bob
the tomato. These cartoons originated the technology later
used
in Disney's Toy Story movies. Veggie Tales is
part
of a Christian ministry based in the Chicago area.
If you're too old to understand all the jokes in Looney Toons
or
Merrie
Melodies, then login here! This is a comprehensive glossary
of
most (if not all) of the jokes found in Warner Brothers cartoons
produced
in the 1930s, -40s, and -50s. Remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon
where
the airplane was crashing head-on into the ground but they
stopped
before hitting the ground in midair because they ran out of gas?
That was only part of the joke. The reason why they ran
out
of gasoline was that they only had an A Card, a sticker
placed
in the window which was used to ration gasoline during World War
Two.
The Cartoon Companion explains how an A Card
worked.
You can even use the Cartoon Companion to help with my Old
Time Radio page!
One of my tuba teachers, who plays in one of the greatest symphony
orchestras
in the world, has gone on record to state that he is a Stoogephile,
that is, one who is a fan of the Three Stooges. Let me go
on record to say I am a Marxist,
that
is, one who is a fan of the Marx Brothers. The sons of
Sam
and Minnie Marks, there were five of them (in birth
order):
Chico;
Harpo;
Groucho;
Gummo; and Zeppo (Mary Livingstone, wife of Jack Benny,
was
a close relative; she was born
Sadie Marks!) I like the Marx
Brothers because I can relate to them (yeah
Bill,
we always knew you were weird!) and they would solve their
problems
without violence. If you have never seen one of their movies,
you're
in for a real treat. The movies made by Paramount
(1929-34)
featured the Four Marx Brothers (Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and
Zeppo).
Beginning with the MGM movies in 1934, Zeppo was no longer a
part
of the performing group. My favorite is Duck Soup. Why
a Duck? is one of many websites lovingly dedicated to the
memory
of the Marx Brothers. It is an excellent page for all ages. The
music you hear as you scroll down this page was taken from the site; it
is "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" from Animal Crackers.
Don't get this confused with the next entry (I tend to do that!)
Yesterdayland is a lot like the boomerbaby website, except that it's
not
intended for any particular age group. Consequently, it has a
wider
scope. My adolescent daughters can probably find things overwhich
to wax nostalgic on this one! If you want to see something
interesting,
look up my file ("loyaltubist") under people born in 1957
and see a picture of me from 1963! NOTE: The original site went offline in
2003. This is a cache copy of most of the site from the last time
it appeared on the Internet. Many of the pictures and multimedia
files won't work!
(I already mentioned this website on the history
page.) Most of my links to Disneyland
refer to this page, one of the
most comprehensive sources for the Disneyland of long ago (back
when there used to be a huge parking lot in front!) If you want
to
see the regular Disneyland website, you can visit that here.
"Hello, I must be going!"
- from "Hooray for
Captain
Spaulding" from the Marx Brothers' movie Animal Crackers
Please note: I have seen other websites
on the 'net which feature "things
which no longer exist" and some of the things listed are Bosco
(now
sold only in the New York City area, parts of Texas, parts of
California,
and a few selected markets in a handful of foreign countries), Jack-in-the-Box
(they left the East Coast about 20 years ago), and the German
restaurant
chain Wienerwald (their branch in Times Square in New York City
closed down the same week in 1983 I broke up with my girlfriend who
lived
in Brooklyn; the chain is still strong in Europe). I am extremely
careful to research everything (except my opinions) on this site.
I strive for integrity in everything I do. If something's wrong,
I want to make it right.
With regards to other pages on this
site: Some people have asked me
to put in pages which they found interesting which was something to do
with their lives. For most of what appears on this site, I have
had
some personal involvement or interest at a very high degree. So
for
those people who e-mailed me about certain movie theaters on E Street
in
Downtown San Bernardino, I think that goes without saying! I will
include more pages on my history page but give me a chance!
Zachary-All, the men's clothing
store that advertized on TV at
least three times an hour when I was in high school and located on the
Miracle Mile in Los Angeles, went out of business about a month
ago.
My parents bought a suit for me there when I was in high school (I
forget
the occasion, but I think the suit was $75 where a poorer quality suit
from Robert Hall ran about $100; this was 30 years ago, so it would
probably
be comparable to a $250 suit today.) Zachary-All's commercial
spokesman
back then was a tall, thin, busy man with a thick Brooklynite accent
and
a cloth measuring tape draped around his neck named Eddie. When
we
went to the store my parents wondered why Eddie didn't meet us at the
door.
I tried to tell him that it was Saturday and it was his day off.
Anyway, the service was great and some famous people were also buying
suits
on that day.
Another place people have asked me to
put on the site is Busch Gardens
in Van Nuys. I really don't think that place is appropriate at
all
to put here. It wasn't like the ones in Florida and Virginia
which
are family theme parks. The place in Van Nuys was a brewery
offering
free beer to all in attendance over 21 and there were a lot of sad
children
I remember seeing when I went there with my parents in 1969. The
brewery is still there and there might even be a park attached to it
but
it doesn't belong here.
I wrote a couple of e-mails to Jack-in-the-Box
(the same place
which my friends on the East Coast didn't know still exists here on the
West Coast) asking about Oscar's. I definitely wrote to
the
wrong department. I shall, one of these years, write an old
fashioned
stamped letter to the company and ask this way. I might get
ignored
again but I might get lucky, too. [As a follow-up to this note from
five years ago, I did write to the history department of Jack-in the
Box and they said that nobody remembers Oscars, so why bother writing
about it? And that, boys and girls, shows you how important the
world thinks history is!]
And here's a message to all the
elementary school students who log onto
this site because your teacher said it might be interesting: Ask your
parents
about what you read about on this site. They probably remember a
lot of stuff mentioned here.
Thanks to everyone who sent me e-mails
with memories. Since what
you sent me was your memories, you might be able to set up your own
website. [Again, please don't lambaste me with your critical
comments about not remembering something that happened before
1962. Yeah, I was there, but I wasn't even in Kindergarten yet!]
I do have a few requests for the
surfers: I need a picture of
Ezra Stone (preferable jpeg or gif, but any image format which
can
be read by a computer would be great) as well as anything about Sage's
Complete Shopping. The only place where I've seen anything
about
Sage's is from the Rialto
Unified
School District.
