Some slightly older friends had one… or one that was very similar.
It was a joke, not something they considered a serious radio.
They also had an old Felix the Cat clock with moving eyes, a rotating thingy that shuffled cards…. and a gold plastic clock that looked like a pocket watch, but ran counterclockwise on a backwards face.
it’s sad that we can’t be 100 percent sure anymore–but I’m reasonably sure this took place…..you can’t fake that youthful , full of exuberance, reaction
We have definitely seen this group together previously. And someone – not me – was able to ID everyone. Since I can only produce one name, I won’t even bother to spoiler-mark him.
Do I recall seeing a colorized version too?
It may have been me… but if it was, it’s not because I can ID them from memory. I recognize the man at left and the one in the foreground.
I probably searched the image then…. And I just did it again.
This is the caption I found…
“The Twilight Zone: From left: Claude Akins as Steve Brand, Mary Gregory as Sally, Jack Weston as Charlie, Burt Metcalf as Don, and Jason Johnson as Old Man/Man One in “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”. Original airdate on March 4, 1960. Image is a screen grab. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)”
I’m guessing the three women at the right don’t count? Maybe they’re extras, and Getty didn’t have their names.
Trivia-ish stuff….
Claude Akins had a very familiar face… especially when he got a bit older, a little heavier… He played a lot of truckers and sheriffs and costarred in a couple of series I never watched, but you’d see him in TV guide and such.
Jack Weston was the neighbor in everything. Much later, a fellow named Jeff Garlin appeared on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, and maybe Seinfeld. I did a double take cos I thought he looked so much like Jack Weston, but Weston was long gone.
Later I realized it’s not that he looks exactly like him, but they kind of play the same roles… Except Garlin plays funnier parts:
I recognize one of the three women on the right (the brunette in front) as Amzie Strickland. She worked a lot back then, and the odd name stuck with me.
I tried to search it on car there was an actual answer from the location, or the designer of it…. but no, everybody was just as confused as the rest of us.
Some people had some crude suggestions that I don’t think would be used in a public place.
One a bit less crude that I first thought of, but I decided would still be inappropriate is that one represents standing, the other sitting.
Actually, though, I’m thinking the man is on the left and the woman on the right because they kind of suggest the shapes of the international symbols… in reverse order to these:
A “Western” bar I in the East Bay that I went to a couple times with x_Tech put them up after a bit of redecorating, and apparently some customers complained. (Hard to believe for a place like that, but they did. )
They swapped them for Stallions and Mares… Or maybe it was Colts and Fillies. Classier, of course.
“Yes, I wanted to go out. But once I got there, I noticed that weird face looking at me from the edge of the snow on the left. It’s eyes were really creepy! Anyway, I made a quick U-turn out of sight of the face, and headed right back in to warn you. That plus it’s colder than a witch’s teat outside.”
I had an elderly neighbor who loved contests and sweepstakes and such.
It would seem to be fine, no harm done, etc… but after she’d put her address and phone number on various entries, the mail started piling up, including requests for money to buy tickets in this that or the other lottery or contest.
This was before the Internet, thank heavens… But she was getting dozens of solicitations a week, sending a stamped envelope here and $3 there.
So day I sat with her and we carefully read some of the very very very fine print that was already, in the 1980s, required to be printed on the tickets and such, including all the odds. … but too tiny for her to read on her own.
There was at least one I remember very much like the one in Claude’s hand…
A huge grand prize that I think actually was a trip to Paris, some lesser but still nice prizes, like a TV, or a sewing machine… and then there was, not a bus ticket, but something else local… I think a movie ticket. The “guaranteed” prize was a coupon for something like a discount at Burger King.
Even though it says your city on the name of the promotion, it’s not just a local thing where somebody in, say, Cleveland, wins the trip.
It’s national… There’s one each of the big prizes. They print a different version for each city they send it to, so it looks local… You win a ticket to your local theater.
But the prize drawing is months away, while they promote it one city at a time … odds of winning the trip were something like one in 500 million… even odds of the movie tickets were like 2 tickets per city…. Not worth the stamps to enter and send a stamped self addressed envelope.
She was disappointed to find out, in a way… but she stopped sending things in.
Does anyone know if Dick Clark had a chewing gum company as a sponsor?
It seems that in every video we’ve seen there is a disproportionate number of the audience chewing gum.
American Bandstand had loads of sponsors, so I don’t know.
But when I was a teenager, it seemed like everybody chewed gum.
I was never a big fan, so I didn’t. .. but I’m not surprised if the kids in the audience did.
Friends carried packs of sticks in their purses… I may have too.
Teachers were always telling kids to throw away their gum, especially if they were answering a question in class…. and there were little signs about gum chewing not allowed in this place or that.
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Could you say “no” to that face?
Never. Unless it’s asking for my steak. Then no.
No
Weirdest looking penguin i ever did see!
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Enjoying their fill of (maybe partly fermented) apples, and reinforcements on the way. Life is good.
It looks like humans piled the apples… probably for the bears; if not, maybe they goofed and left them too long.
I’ve never seen an apple tree drop all its fruit in one tall pile, on one side of the trunk.
Mine seems to have secret arms that throw it in all directions, if I don’t pick them in time, even though it’s so old, I only get a dozen at most.
yes. this was a deliberate dump of apples in the woods as an experiment.
Especially since it’s not an apple tree. Looks like a tulip poplar. To the left is a beech (smooth, gray bark).
Hunters do that before the season opens …usually for deer.
They do it for bear also. Usually with things like sticky buns.
Like Clara’s?
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I m dance this morning.
I don’t get the reference.
NIGHTHAWKS!!!
Yes. I was slow this morning! 😀
So dance like nobody’s watching! :oD
Beart Scumble! Mostly apples…
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That could be a very handy thing to have under certain circumstances.
The paper part is always a handy thing to have…
Okay.
Some slightly older friends had one… or one that was very similar.
It was a joke, not something they considered a serious radio.
They also had an old Felix the Cat clock with moving eyes, a rotating thingy that shuffled cards…. and a gold plastic clock that looked like a pocket watch, but ran counterclockwise on a backwards face.
You get the picture.
Kitch! 😀
Very popular in certain circles.
Except they didn’t know it was kitch.
Older ex-midwesterners who just genuinely thought that stuff was funny, not ironic or retro.
They had no idea people laughed at those Felix clocks. They laughed at me because I said I’d eaten raw fish.
I’m not mocking them whatsoever… they were very incredibly warm-hearted, very dear friends, and I really miss them.
Wish i had one of those Felix cat clocks!
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I want to believe that is real.
it’s sad that we can’t be 100 percent sure anymore–but I’m reasonably sure this took place…..you can’t fake that youthful , full of exuberance, reaction
That’s why i want it to be true.
Guys would have a great childhood memory!
Now run it backwards…
That’s what I was thinking.
Is there a way?
Yes…
Thanks.
It’s not that, then.
,,
August Hutaf, 1917.
makes you want to enthusiastically run in there and sign up for the duration…..
until you get there and you discover the horror
Not much war left after the tanks were introduced.
As bad as they were, they ended trench warfare.
It kind of horrified me… Appealing not to patriotism but to some sort of macho pride in beating people up.
There wasn’t a “duration” in 1917 (in America) Just sign up for the glamor and pretty uniforms…/s
,.,
When they told me that the railroad “ran right thru that town”, they were not exaggerating one bit.
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My xmas T.
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The living nightmare of pretty much every species of rodent on the planet.
So much for penguins looking like cute, harmless, little clowns.
“Thank you!”
Top picture: shouldn’t it say “Gentlemen, if I may?”
And it looks to me like one of the ‘Gentleman’ isn’t.
To a penguin we all look alike.
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I remember several face, but not the names.
And it’s one of my favorite episodes.
We have definitely seen this group together previously. And someone – not me – was able to ID everyone. Since I can only produce one name, I won’t even bother to spoiler-mark him.
Do I recall seeing a colorized version too?
It may have been me… but if it was, it’s not because I can ID them from memory. I recognize the man at left and the one in the foreground.
I probably searched the image then…. And I just did it again.
I’m guessing the three women at the right don’t count? Maybe they’re extras, and Getty didn’t have their names.
Jack Weston was the neighbor in everything. Much later, a fellow named Jeff Garlin appeared on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, and maybe Seinfeld. I did a double take cos I thought he looked so much like Jack Weston, but Weston was long gone.
Later I realized it’s not that he looks exactly like him, but they kind of play the same roles… Except Garlin plays funnier parts:
I recognize one of the three women on the right (the brunette in front) as Amzie Strickland. She worked a lot back then, and the odd name stuck with me.
They were the wives in the story.
(I tried to delete a redundant post, but don’t know how. Sorry.)
I don’t see one, so maybe you were successful?
No biggie anyway, but thanks.
As for deletion… If you don’t see “Click to Edit” at the bottom of your comment, refresh the page… It often doesn’t appear before a refresh.
Click it, and it opens the editing mode… A black bar at the bottom will say “Save Cancel Delete”.
Click Delete. It’ll ask you to confirm. Once you do, it may take a moment, while it looks like it’s still there, but it will delete your comment.
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Five it is! With a wild card!
👍 🤩
Yeah…five and one whose carrot must have fallen off.
Yeah, I guess some people can’t count past the fingers on one hand.
Or maybe one has his nose in his pocket, so he’s not technically noseless.
I prefer to see it as three eyes…
I didn’t even realize.I was counting the one with 3 coals as noseless.
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Yes.
?
If someone has to stop and think about it, it’s not very friendly for someone in a hurry.
I’ve thought about it. I’m leaving and going somewhere else ’cause I still don’t know.
I tried to search it on car there was an actual answer from the location, or the designer of it…. but no, everybody was just as confused as the rest of us.
Some people had some crude suggestions that I don’t think would be used in a public place.
One a bit less crude that I first thought of, but I decided would still be inappropriate is that one represents standing, the other sitting.
Actually, though, I’m thinking the man is on the left and the woman on the right because they kind of suggest the shapes of the international symbols… in reverse order to these:
I remember a country restaurant that was highly decorated in country that had setters and pointers with photos of appropriate pups on the doors. .
Yeah, I’ve seen those signs.
A “Western” bar I in the East Bay that I went to a couple times with x_Tech put them up after a bit of redecorating, and apparently some customers complained. (Hard to believe for a place like that, but they did. )
They swapped them for Stallions and Mares… Or maybe it was Colts and Fillies. Classier, of course.
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Smart kitty!
“Yes, I wanted to go out. But once I got there, I noticed that weird face looking at me from the edge of the snow on the left. It’s eyes were really creepy! Anyway, I made a quick U-turn out of sight of the face, and headed right back in to warn you. That plus it’s colder than a witch’s teat outside.”
Combine a couple of sayings, and you get, “Colder than a witch’s brass monkey”.
Make.the.snow.go.away…!
Yup…Cleveland it is. Grand tour. (Is airfare included? If so, sign me up.)
Wouldn’t mind seeing the Rock & Roll museum.
Wizard Island, Sept. 2025
Wikipedia on Wizard Island.
Yup. That’s the one. Close to my hometown…this was my trip in September, and I was surprised there was still snow.
I had an elderly neighbor who loved contests and sweepstakes and such.
It would seem to be fine, no harm done, etc… but after she’d put her address and phone number on various entries, the mail started piling up, including requests for money to buy tickets in this that or the other lottery or contest.
This was before the Internet, thank heavens… But she was getting dozens of solicitations a week, sending a stamped envelope here and $3 there.
So day I sat with her and we carefully read some of the very very very fine print that was already, in the 1980s, required to be printed on the tickets and such, including all the odds. … but too tiny for her to read on her own.
There was at least one I remember very much like the one in Claude’s hand…
A huge grand prize that I think actually was a trip to Paris, some lesser but still nice prizes, like a TV, or a sewing machine… and then there was, not a bus ticket, but something else local… I think a movie ticket. The “guaranteed” prize was a coupon for something like a discount at Burger King.
Even though it says your city on the name of the promotion, it’s not just a local thing where somebody in, say, Cleveland, wins the trip.
It’s national… There’s one each of the big prizes. They print a different version for each city they send it to, so it looks local… You win a ticket to your local theater.
But the prize drawing is months away, while they promote it one city at a time … odds of winning the trip were something like one in 500 million… even odds of the movie tickets were like 2 tickets per city…. Not worth the stamps to enter and send a stamped self addressed envelope.
She was disappointed to find out, in a way… but she stopped sending things in.
Art Nouveau doorway of the Lavirotte Building, completed in 1901, Paris.
Grotesque. Looks too much like a bug’s face.
Yes, it does.
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
It’s just those tilted oval windows in the transom above the door… I think the artist didn’t realize. Except for maybe those it’s gorgeous.
Oleg Shuplyak (Once more).
From today’s London “Daily Mail” (never saw the show, but it’s something I didn’t know).
Does anyone know if Dick Clark had a chewing gum company as a sponsor?
It seems that in every video we’ve seen there is a disproportionate number of the audience chewing gum.
American Bandstand had loads of sponsors, so I don’t know.
But when I was a teenager, it seemed like everybody chewed gum.
I was never a big fan, so I didn’t. .. but I’m not surprised if the kids in the audience did.
Friends carried packs of sticks in their purses… I may have too.
Teachers were always telling kids to throw away their gum, especially if they were answering a question in class…. and there were little signs about gum chewing not allowed in this place or that.