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Old Jewish Joke on Film: The Tailor
Not much original material on this here blog lately, but I couldn’t pass up this old Jewish joke short film presented at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
*Warning: The movie contains one NSFW word, depending on where you W. This blog is not responsible for you not getting the joke, just enjoy the music.
Behind The Iron Curtain: Cosmonautics Day (Multimedia Edition)
April 12th is the Cosmonautics Day celebrating the first manned space flight accomplished on that day in 1961 by the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. I mentioned it last year so today I will just post some pictures and a video clip.
This is the Monument To The Conquerors of Space in Moscow.
Space theme in the Soviet Greeting Cards. Notice that the Soviet postcards didn’t include any text so a person had to actually write something, not just sign their name under some sappy Hallmark verse.
Lastly, this song “Do you know what a guy he was” about Gagarin became the Song of The Year in 1971. Gagarin would have been 75 this year.
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Continue reading →Old Photos: Baseball
I am not a fan of baseball, it’s a seemingly never-ending boring game, interrupted only by an occasional bloody action in the stands or a non-lethal hot-dog drive-by. Baseball promoters tried to combat the dreadfulness of the game by creating sources of distraction, like bringing a herd of sheep for the 1963 Kansas City Athletics – Yankees home opener which was played on April 8th and lost 8-3 by the Kansas City team.
The following book excerpt talks about the 1963 season (scroll up and down inside the window):
Mayor Roe Bartle (R) w. Eric Enloe (center) introducing Ex-president Harry Truman (L) to baseball fans at opening game of season. ©Time,Francis Miller Yogi Berra before game, doing first base coaching.©Time,Francis Miller Athletics Manager Ed Lopat (2L) & Yankees Manager Ralph Houk (C) conferring with umpires before start of game.©Time,Francis Miller Charles O. Finley, "Athletics owner" w. 10-gallon hats, colored green and gold, to be distributed to fans at opening baseball game of season.©Time,Francis Miller ©Time,Francis Miller Easter Seal boy Eric Enloe (center fore) throwing out first ball at opening game of season, with Harry S. Truman (rear) & Mayor Roe Bartle.©Time,Francis Miller ©Time,Francis Miller Bucket'O'Chips ©Time,Francis Miller ©Time,Francis Miller Fan-A-Gram ©Time,Francis Miller ©Time,Francis Miller ©Time,Francis Miller Previously: Old Photos:Enos “Country” Slaughter
Continue reading →Memphis
The shortest route from Kansas City to Memphis is via Springfield, MO and rural Arkansas where highway is controlled by the roaming gangs of deer who stand around the road contemplating if they will let you live. I wouldn’t recommend driving there in the dark.
I didn’t want to go to Memphis. Even though I learned English trying to sing along with Elvis (and that’s why people often ask me if I am from Tupelo), I didn’t feel the need to visit his house and other Memphis attractions didn’t really seem worthy of a fairly boring 8-hour drive. Usually we try to see things along the way, but there wasn’t much to see and the only memorable item was a town called Cabool, mostly because of how out-of-place the name seemed somewhere in rural Missouri.
Memphis turned out to be a fun place for a weekend trip, with enough things to keep you busy for a few days.
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