Recent content by BowserB4600

From my childhood, the Bowery Boys movies. As to movies on TV, for us they were all black & white. From a little later and still now, classic science fiction: The Thing, Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Them. Monolith Monsters, This Island Earth, and many more. BTW...

Hotel/motel architecture has come a long way since the Tee Pee and Wigwam motels on Route 66, US 90 (aka Old Spanish Trail), and US 11. A few of those are still in business. One in Wharton Texas, for example. Our family stayed in one in Birmingham Alabama around 1957 as I recall.

Always remember Friday night fights (our city had only one TV station and no cable service then). Gillette. How are you fixed for blades? Awwwk...Better check! And that was about as far as my interest in TV boxing went. Still wanted boxing gloves though, and a first baseman's mitt...

Thanks.

Haven't read the book, but a friend of mine was a Marine sniper in Vietnam. He has some interesting stories. Used a standard M-14--before the development of the M-21 and M-25 variants.

Ancient Chinese myth says cats were sent down by the gods to manage creation but were too fond of sleeping to do a good job of it. A great history of how cats are responsible for civilization by The History Guy: