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I am especially intrigued at the idea that some of the equipment used by re-enactors could be still bought at hardware stores in the 1960s. That is of course when hardware stores were worthy of the name, and stocked everything, likewise, they held on to old stock until it sold.
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I hear ya Miss Markie. The last privately owned hardware store in this town is now a restaurant that specializes in German food. It was owned by a German immigrant who came to this area, which is a predominantly German settlement, and started it up in the late 1800's. I was in it many times. It had big glass front windows that said "Voelker's Hardware" on it, and wooden floors that creaked when you walked on them. The store carried stuff that I had no idea what it would be used for, but evidently there were people who did know. Mr. Voelker wouldn't stock anything that didn't sell.
Now, if I need a bolt or nut, if I can't get it at Walgreen's I know I'll have to make the trek to Home Depot. If I have to go there, I'll pack a canteen and a sandwich in a backpack, because after the half-mile hike from the parking lot, it's another quarter mile into the maze of aisles and merchandise before I even spot the nut, bolt, and screw sign. I usually take 5 at the lighting and fixtures aisle, re-hydrate myself and tear open a Power Bar. After I eat that I'm good to go. I get my compass out, (because I can't usually find anybody to ask directions from) and if I'm lucky I'll be at the correct aisle before another half hour passes by. After I get what I need I'll head south by the compass and pretty soon I'll spot a checkout lane that's not staffed. But with binoculars, I can locate a lane with a little light on, that is staffed so I head that way. After checkout, sometimes I'll call a cab to get a lift to my car if I'm like way tired out. If I feel ok, then I'll just change socks and head south-southwest towards my car. 'Course once I find the car it's a breeze.
But I'd rather go to Voelker's if I had a choice. I think a reenactor would be hard pressed to find anything he could use at a Home Depot, except maybe rope? I'm not a reenactor so I don't know. I could be wrong.
Terry
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
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Hanny, yes it is, if you're talking about the Clyde Bruckman episode. Peter Boyle won an emmy that year in the Best Performance by a Guest Role category for his performance.
Terry
I like Boyle, particulry atm, in Everyone loves Ramond which we have showing in the UK over breakfast, and one of his film roles that sticks in my mind is the Friends of Edie Coyle, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070077/
This was the last time i watched re enacters, quite a fun day, 80 Romans runnnig around in the sun and falling over!, in kit running past £3,500 to buy, and looking at the dent and saying great, now it looks real!.
The roast ox for lunch was particury good, burp, pardon me.
Yeah, Hanny, that was a great film. One scene from that movie was being filmed in Boston, in a bar right down the street, actually Massachusetts Avenue, from where my college dorm was. I went down there to try to get a glimpse of Robert Mitchum, but the cop who was guarding the door wouldn't let me look inside. The cop was looking inside and turned around and saw me standing right behind him, and he goes "Take a walk!", so I took a walk. Didn't get to see Peter Boyle either. Boyle was good in "Taxi Driver" with Deniro, and also he played Carl Lazlo, the crazy attorney friend of Hunter Thompson's (Bill Murray) in "Where the Buffalo Roam"
Terry
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
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Red Dwarf is my favorite Sci-Fi show, but I don't think they did an American Civil War episode.
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Didn't the guy on Quantum Leap jump into the Civil War one time??
Zou
There was an episode where Sam leaps into his great grandfather. At the time of the leap his great grandfather was injured in battle and hiding in a barn where he mets a southern lady who turns out to be his great grandmother.
2.Lost in Space..but strictly the first glorious season in black and white.
VS, you and I are of the same era. DANGER WILL ROBINSON!
The boys in my class were hot for Angela Cartwright... but Billy Mumy held no charms for me.
And on TV about that time I remember seeing that Ray Harryhausen classic movie, "Jason and the Argonauts." I was extremely impressed with the skeleton warriors!
Was there ever an episode in which that man in the robot suit didn't say "Danger, Will Robinson!"? Thought it was silly then. Now, of course, it borders on hilarious predictability.
Ole
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