tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65554906244860116142024-02-19T09:13:18.180-08:00Charles presents...The USA Retro TimesA place to explore all things "retro" as presented by our American newspapers.Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-12127034427579571622011-02-28T06:20:00.000-08:002011-02-28T07:12:30.005-08:00Once Upon A Time In Boston's Theatre District: The Story of the Plymouth Theatre...aka...The GaryHello, My Fellow Retro History Lovers!<br /><br />Today we are in Boston, Massachusetts…my beloved hometown…for a special update.<br /><br /><br />Boston like many American cities had numerous Theatres built over the years and many of those were converted to movie houses as the moving picture business “muscled in” on live theatre venues.<br />Looking back to the early 1900’s, Boston had a thriving and extremely lively nightlife. Theatres offering vaudeville, plays, musicals, concerts and readings/lectures filled the newspapers with advertisements displaying their weekly listings. <br /><br />The early moving pictures only added to the fun and for a sweet time…live stage and filmed entertainments seemed to live in harmony. <br />During this heyday of theatre madness…Clarence Blackall designed many of Boston’s best performances houses. From the 1890’s to the 1920’s, Blackall was the man who left a huge mark on Boston theatre architecture. His theatres, each unique and tailored to the individual owner’s desires, were the cream of the crop and audiences were in awe of the spectacle each new one added.<br /><br />They were not all showplaces…The Metropolitan Theatre (The Wang Center) was probably the most lavish of the Boston group…most were handsome, pleasing to the eye and acoustically well engineered. All seats had a fine view of the stage and Blackall specialized in the “intimate feel” in many of his theatres. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXSJFV-MYly1TeE1S0YvNd_7hyphenhyphenB5DdRmYSE6nkBvycbfeRB4880x9rdDJcfggm9E0vPWhUqrQtocRc3ZndNH5mL_6kGS4HcpoSVZ1PxKZxeCoq4gVmsi7qGHAsJfHl5qAsikZsVtjfef5B/s1600/Plymouth+Mid+50%2527s.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXSJFV-MYly1TeE1S0YvNd_7hyphenhyphenB5DdRmYSE6nkBvycbfeRB4880x9rdDJcfggm9E0vPWhUqrQtocRc3ZndNH5mL_6kGS4HcpoSVZ1PxKZxeCoq4gVmsi7qGHAsJfHl5qAsikZsVtjfef5B/s320/Plymouth+Mid+50%2527s.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578756318230957234" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jX6_ALKjU3AfZtZ_fMB3T8eQdiE3pJbkJX0-s9-rjJSxynmY4NsmeoDM7cfsb7Oz2Pmgr3GHPMMW5eoPc3HTV7pltQFdCpou38lxzkdjzI-2lErIcb3kBhrNmD5DPRVf87L7Ylr-PUk_/s1600/Gary-Boston-July1966.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jX6_ALKjU3AfZtZ_fMB3T8eQdiE3pJbkJX0-s9-rjJSxynmY4NsmeoDM7cfsb7Oz2Pmgr3GHPMMW5eoPc3HTV7pltQFdCpou38lxzkdjzI-2lErIcb3kBhrNmD5DPRVf87L7Ylr-PUk_/s320/Gary-Boston-July1966.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578756319708216978" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhboWPsDstel4p-SECE0Fnq5t0MM77jpHZ0u6ette78Gk8ASf__AatvUWKKOacQwZqzcTVWSFVMM-SSje593vf-eeGt-rfJKkcPwTyBiyGdWsoK70r1lQUwr2MLiVJkCkCL1a1b4hrbOu/s1600/Gary+1966.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhboWPsDstel4p-SECE0Fnq5t0MM77jpHZ0u6ette78Gk8ASf__AatvUWKKOacQwZqzcTVWSFVMM-SSje593vf-eeGt-rfJKkcPwTyBiyGdWsoK70r1lQUwr2MLiVJkCkCL1a1b4hrbOu/s320/Gary+1966.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578756313767760946" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuGyCzdtojjhIc43QEoX2A9ilYL3VG3UiaWulQrgkL_PDLeeWB6ZKmsTn4Sjsrq-v85AguaOnCT5_998GH9M6TuQYuRL6m4OrjAJI6irrB-JtOmzMWzz6kYLU-cx4H9F5YjYjoXsDyWKK/s1600/967-0226.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuGyCzdtojjhIc43QEoX2A9ilYL3VG3UiaWulQrgkL_PDLeeWB6ZKmsTn4Sjsrq-v85AguaOnCT5_998GH9M6TuQYuRL6m4OrjAJI6irrB-JtOmzMWzz6kYLU-cx4H9F5YjYjoXsDyWKK/s320/967-0226.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578756316024943714" /></a><br /><br /><br />One of his many Boston gems would have turned 100 this year if it had not been torn down in 1979-80 during the redevelopment of Boston’s theatre district. <br /><br />The Plymouth Theatre built in 1911 and opened on September 23 of that year. Located on Eliot Street which later became part of Stuart Street, it boasted seating for 1500audience members and a dignified, horse-shoe curved arched, autumnal shaded auditorium with that “intimate feel”.<br /><br />The opening performance of Irish plays with a company from Dublin was greeted with praise for the building and its many amenities for patrons. Gentle and effective lighting with methods other than central chandelier, less stairs to travel up to reach the two balconies and plenty of lavatories were some of the noted features. <br />The Plymouth Theatre remained a busy feature in Boston’s theatrical calendar for all the years of its live performance use. <br /><br /><br />A favorite among actors and producers because of the intimate playhouse design, it hosted nearly all of the well-known theatre legends of the early 20th century at some time or another. The players and plays from 1911 until 1957 reads like a who’s who of American theatre greats. The Plymouth, although equipped with an orchestra pit, was mainly used for drama and comedy productions. In researching for this update, I was in awe of all the fabulous productions that were staged within those walls and the Theatre Guild and American Theatre Society provided most of them for many, many years.<br /><br /><br /><br />Shows on national tour, pre-Broadway try-outs, visiting shows from abroad and special theatrical events all were housed at the Plymouth over the years. Year after year, the Plymouth Theatre remained one of the busiest houses in Boston’s theater district. Leibler and Company were the original owners and sold to the Shubert’s in the 1920’s. The Shubert’s held on to this Boston theatre magnet until 1957.<br />By 1957, Boston was feeling the “too many live theaters” crunch and even though the Plymouth had been very active, it was turned over to Ben Sack to become a movie house. <br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEM39K_7cLcI4t6shlqEK3DTO-u2cyng8E5dsbUnUnnbR9-r5iAu9Xvd-LYgFWW3hj4_ou9Hz2GAfNdfVyNZMUqCHxeXE-49SLc0S0538JymtJECsc3hyyq-EsFLmbNxzbSCHst_b-PMM/s1600/1939-40season.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 112px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEM39K_7cLcI4t6shlqEK3DTO-u2cyng8E5dsbUnUnnbR9-r5iAu9Xvd-LYgFWW3hj4_ou9Hz2GAfNdfVyNZMUqCHxeXE-49SLc0S0538JymtJECsc3hyyq-EsFLmbNxzbSCHst_b-PMM/s320/1939-40season.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578755801348557906" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTEuw9WAOq-t9bh89caMGdi7kKD6pCgBJV3kZBpg_hBzb4ImfZv7yvOIW9qJlLIBWAcWhyDtTqlt64Q08X0gNnZiWUe1bs4u78_8Pyg5Y7dyz4VfUxzHoJJkRFLbIGCBftIjyqV58WBVc/s1600/sept.24-+1911.jpg"><img style="float:right; 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Gone were the graceful boxes that were on either side of the proscenium arch and gone were the first two rows of the mezzanine. All lopped off to make room for movies and the need for wider viewing space for audience members seated in the rear of the orchestra section. The proscenium arch was trimmed back to make room for the new “Todd- AO” screen. The seating reduced by 200, the wall colors now lively shades in keeping with the times, and a water fountain trickling into a pool with plants was inserted into the rear area that used to be for standees in the old days…the “new” Gary Theater was set to open. <br /><br />In August of 1957, “The Pride and the Passion” dazzled audiences and Boston had a new, exciting movie venue. Not a palace, like the Metropolitan or the Keith Memorial, a movie house with great acoustics and completely modern screen technology. The Gary, named after Ben’s son, became the place for many big Hollywood releases for the next decade. By 1959, ads proclaimed it the first cinema in Boston with full stereophonic sound. “The Sound of Music” ran at the Gary for well over a year. Selling tickets by advance mail order, like live theater venues, became a normal procedure for many of the bigger hits that ran exclusively in the Boston area for many weeks at this convenient location just a skip and a hop from the Green Line. <br /><br />The Gary maintained this status into the early 1970’s and then began a slide downward. Sack’s theater chain grew larger and the role of the Gary seemed to diminish. <br /><br />Horror films and action movies began to dominate the marquee and the neighborhood in general was not the place families tended to go much anymore for a night out. <br />I saw the Gary Theater for the first time in October of 1978 when I was walking back up Tremont Street after seeing the first Boston stop of the national tour of “Annie” that was playing at the Shubert. <br /><br />The marquee sadly read a few words of goodbye and thanks. I was aware that Boston had plans to tear down the little old theatre and its nearby friends and replace the group with a large, new building. <br />The last film to be shown was a double feature of karate films and that October the Gary Theater closed for good.<br /><br />A public outcry against the demolition was launched and I saw notices up all around town proclaiming…. “Save the Plymouth Theater!”<br />The protest failed, an auction was held to sell-off all sorts of bits and pieces and the building vanished between mid- 1979 and early 1980. I recall the “new” empty lot next to the Saxon Theater looked ominous and very desolate. The theatre district was shrinking and looking like it was gasping for survival now as the 1980’s began.<br /> <br /><br />This scenario was becoming all too familiar in Boston. The Gaiety Theatre on Washington Street went this way as well two and bit decades later. Another victim of the times and the power of redevelopment. <br /><br />Please enjoy this fond look back on the Gary, pardon me…Plymouth Theatre that once sat in Boston’s theatre crossroads. <br /><br /><br />Enjoy!! Charles:-)<br /><br /><br />charles65ofboston@yahoo.com<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001763830923<br /><br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/24334155@N03/<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7MumtxxqlvhNUG0ewpqO7V7JdlWsOlbJo6W58Cj5-RrZF9MvkzY63nzmlXqnfH7xnEIjIM83r-1Ebe2n_NDqb4Bo2XU-_vMvPKjSZrlWl7XXH-hIXCQecJnUp4vccXCpEr0WTUfhfNZGv/s1600/May+1957.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7MumtxxqlvhNUG0ewpqO7V7JdlWsOlbJo6W58Cj5-RrZF9MvkzY63nzmlXqnfH7xnEIjIM83r-1Ebe2n_NDqb4Bo2XU-_vMvPKjSZrlWl7XXH-hIXCQecJnUp4vccXCpEr0WTUfhfNZGv/s320/May+1957.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578751925306924514" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuD2d4uEPkMkYnS-lNoWyKoO5_ccHLPS9WYDykHOZWAfAYaQAME5UUEm6raNkVzypo81a-X8GwcO9NP33tc2UunHqoW9sd5Fd4L4ql9SVoebEq2NWAJ6gnpvlDv22sOxXah-AUlismISm5/s1600/Gary+Aug+1957.jpg"><img style="float:right; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKbaSW34JdpjVpzjZFw2E8RIq2xaWaDWVRgASTIWxm0Kst7mca0-6Ku2znSXO0LWzQ5XPzYd0O1oP5zn50BH5onB_Jm02phRxsxmuZEiOIMkDXeB0AHaFYNOLfcRc8am39b9gwAXnVp1U/s320/Arts.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549834711540362130" /></a><br />Hello, Retro Lovers!<br /><br />This update follows along with the Xmas 1969 update on my Boston blog:<br />(http://shoppingdaysinretroboston.blogspot.com/)<br /><br />The focus is 1969 in Boston and what we watched on TV and the various choices we had for other entertainment during the week of December 21-27th.<br />Looking over the TV selection that week brought back many memories for me.<br />I can recall the line-up on Ch. 56 and watching <span style="font-style:italic;">I Love Lucy </span> each weeknight before bed. I was amazed at all the daytime soap operas being broadcast on the networks that year...the afternoon was a daytime drama fest back to front.<br /><br />Those "cute" holiday specials were on each day and I recall many of them as part of the fun of being young and so aware of holiday magic in all its forms:-)<br />Note the "Gala" opening of the Pi Alley Cinema that week as well as some wonderful choices in the "live" theater department. <br /><br /><br />Enjoy....Charles:-)<br />charles65ofboston@yahoo.comCharles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-43876159673342119162010-02-19T05:49:00.000-08:002010-02-20T01:39:05.321-08:00Gentlemen Prefer Blondes....60th Anniversary<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmtTz-iNw2skJ1GKm57ihuay-8rULOq1OO5NYhSmqntKOP9aWbfEHkDBSHoaQHga4I1IEgR6NCKX35ksEuAD8lJ6mQaBjSj2Xc7v6uRaElS9-6lZBFYgEMBtw9VxUkXHch699JAhej81v/s1600-h/cartoon.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmrGZn7QWnV1Ao2oQZzUpnUjP5dh9qz3FwpN9toFUf3tAtjPkhylLhrZH5X_2rftLW9JjFk_X6miVajzJ9uqmARpE1W2OdzCq962qwKZP4RykZ4dkYGaI2WBb3U5W5mD6kYjof-9W7a5Xk/s320/Playbill.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439979363124037874" /></a><br />Hello, Retro Lovers!<br />I know that not too long ago I did my look back at <span style="font-style:italic;">Hello, Dolly!</span> update and Carol Channing was the main feature. Here I go again with more Carol. This past December 8th, the musical stage comedy, <span style="font-style:italic;">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</span> turned 60. <br />This musical gave Carol Channing the big BOOST she needed to become the star she is today and will always be. Lorelei Lee would be the toast of Broadway and Carol would play her for nearly two years with only just a few short breaks. Carol was a hit and these photos, newspaper clippings and other items are what I share with you as we recall this piece of Broadway history. The movie role of Lorelei Lee went to Marilyn in 1953 as we all know but... Carol was the real diamond!<br />Enjoy this look back to 1949- 1951!!!<br />Charles:-)Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-2352609080778879332009-09-10T05:22:00.000-07:002009-09-10T06:56:33.431-07:00Snapshot of a Great TV Legend.....Bea Arthur<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1phc59WwYaAUsLg3zn002hb_xujvU9STZAmYAttQaemSc8zp428GzeA1BlH5PQ0H_4j9M78AQtUuuHzavn2WYVDw9DfrTOcd3ZoLaXirWgfuI8VdtUgpBeMu5_L9aX5rGu8ejmY_7kdE/s1600-h/TVguideMaude.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1phc59WwYaAUsLg3zn002hb_xujvU9STZAmYAttQaemSc8zp428GzeA1BlH5PQ0H_4j9M78AQtUuuHzavn2WYVDw9DfrTOcd3ZoLaXirWgfuI8VdtUgpBeMu5_L9aX5rGu8ejmY_7kdE/s320/TVguideMaude.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379837266596178226" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOdI7lWTcuotFA0IBJ1d-5kB58gohvxDAxJqKU3GFnL7gOLg_K9iJGJNEdYwtMkKDvmqJcTtyqS6y2fydaMqJqUY9w3SiIT_N_0VZCAqkM-2EuZdFq8fYAU127s3rFzoFuiiWs0HfWX2qk/s1600-h/MaudeTVguide.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 205px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPAFZ9A84sQzP0VVHhRDYi41dqVlhcDG-8_M976bQ336BtqxL_2yI2kBpU2hDCTXx4hdy5MAP6WMla9VwpibL5vhZ_Fhk5BgtQY6IpC-ch61kXtD-HHjh3D_OQgqUHy1cITrnFhy6q_GIN/s320/Image17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379834963503747442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hPWG_YmxvSUBvXj7XHgxjglCq_07TQbXbHYbwK6Sjpjso-57a-lYcpwZd2nBQNqBKW091bsnF6oePGaQBUwpuxnnZxVLlJL4ItSSJIETLBkrjsw7qTXHqFEHspyMcvqke9FyZwrV40b6/s1600-h/Image19.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hPWG_YmxvSUBvXj7XHgxjglCq_07TQbXbHYbwK6Sjpjso-57a-lYcpwZd2nBQNqBKW091bsnF6oePGaQBUwpuxnnZxVLlJL4ItSSJIETLBkrjsw7qTXHqFEHspyMcvqke9FyZwrV40b6/s320/Image19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379834954051072658" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirbiMOqZvnKmX1OngwtgUJe_04OjnTQobOxIZM9RtrKPvmDhJ5gviGzfUpdt-9Cf3lZB-fFRdEYXbAhLcIUl6H6UsoFaaKRtOCHsqEdoKpkwwee2aqnfRupn9fvxZyL5L-XSTl8_mrXXrJ/s1600-h/Image18.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirbiMOqZvnKmX1OngwtgUJe_04OjnTQobOxIZM9RtrKPvmDhJ5gviGzfUpdt-9Cf3lZB-fFRdEYXbAhLcIUl6H6UsoFaaKRtOCHsqEdoKpkwwee2aqnfRupn9fvxZyL5L-XSTl8_mrXXrJ/s320/Image18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379834946532357186" /></a><br />Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009)<br /><br />Hello, Retro Lovers!<br />Bea Arthur....a retro TV and stage legend...an icon of the 1970's. Her face was part of the fabric of an amazing decade...a decade of big changes in how women were seen on the TV screens of our nation. Her voice boomed out and wow, did we take notice! <br />I present today a snapshot of this wonderful woman's career from the years 1964 to 1974. These years were some of the ones Bea recalled as being so vital and so exciting to her life and work. I find it interesting that she was never a film star. Her two movie roles during this time represented " a great time" and "one I never should have done" as Bea later would say. These years saw her go from a stage actor to broadway co-star to TV giant. Bea rose to the top and took us along for a thrilling ride. The 80's would bring Bea even more TV fame, but we shall save that for another time.<br />And now....here's Bea!<br /><br />Enjoy....Charles:-)Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-59222076301652779302009-06-05T04:07:00.000-07:002009-06-05T06:55:13.330-07:001962...Davis and Crawford Head to Head<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHTNPRGC_Lu3SnPlK6qxmLAwI5VOygPK7b9e6KI7BoamsAVoFnYCoOtUliY2XtYtQCyzk2LmxErLhAW2MFkJDxz4AFX4IOgmFNbfYNTSCIr7J6eLqMYe7YLfomXasmKkNcai2dxwFX0Cp/s1600-h/Babyjane7.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 193px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHTNPRGC_Lu3SnPlK6qxmLAwI5VOygPK7b9e6KI7BoamsAVoFnYCoOtUliY2XtYtQCyzk2LmxErLhAW2MFkJDxz4AFX4IOgmFNbfYNTSCIr7J6eLqMYe7YLfomXasmKkNcai2dxwFX0Cp/s320/Babyjane7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343841675572032498" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXo30ikCh96iVg4ANq8c3mKWd6Nrs6-DZ_zUEjLhhtiFlb20vx0q0FgeZ1tWEfY9sn99G6zkDUS_Me9jz5oH-akMVay17SwLRa8K826Xb-1p83ayNznBN_kviihxYu8RAbGzkF8bcV0QgD/s1600-h/Babyjane6.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi05U7jFFX8DedA0BzEtMxBucghTMOGA-IWgMhAMNE7qyk2bpCkwoT7-zFU9iNPgyP8-7M-pT1ECEFdSu_04AoZHtoVA32IBemBWc8S3PmBnDICKzZJN6ap9iLnDXAXTpR1Z4t7WipyGAsN/s320/Babyjane1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343799922273528146" /></a><br />Hello, Retro Friends!!<br />There are some movies that you see when you are growing up that leave an impression on you forever. My parents both loved good movies and grew up during those golden movie palace years in Boston. My dad even worked in either the RKO Boston or Keith’s as an usher in the late 1940’s. <br />Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were real stars…I knew of them since birth I guess.<br />And seeing, <span style="font-style:italic;">What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?</span> on TV when I was 5 or 6 was amazing. So gritty and so powerful. I was a very deep 6 year old:-)<br />The film was not my mother’s favorite at all(Bette’s make-up job really bothered her) and my dad…well…he liked horror films and we enjoyed this masterpiece together. I had seen so many old movies with both these screen legends on TV…I had favorites that starred each…like <span style="font-style:italic;">Dark Victory</span> with Davis and of course…<span style="font-style:italic;">Mildred Pierce</span> with Crawford. <br />I really loved these two legends and <span style="font-style:italic;">Baby Jane</span> was the perfect cocktail to serve them up in. Crawford seemed so perfect for that fading star trapped in the wheelchair. Davis as the ever tough survivor with an axe to grind. <br />Great stuff!! <br />We all have our favorite lines from this classic:<br /><br />Jane: Blanche, you know we got rats in the cellah?<br /><br />And of course,<br /><br />Jane: Don't you think I know everything that goes on in this house?<br /><br />And this classic exchange,<br /><br />Blanche: You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this chair! <br /><br />Jane: Butcha are, Blanche! Ya are in that chair!<br /><br />My favorite scene has to be the one with an exhausted Crawford on the phone, seated on the floor(after pulling her way down the long staircase from her wheelchair at the top) in the downstairs hall trying to get the doctor to commit her dear sick sister to a nice “rest home” and Davis standing grimly listening in the rear by the swinging kitchen door…. Next Davis comes stalking towards the babbly, terrified Crawford who now realizes she has just been overheard by the sister from hell…well, my dear readers…that is a perfect cinema moment in my book! <br /><br />Back in 1962…The press gossiped and drooled for the teaming of these two old style Hollywood queens…and the public waited and hoped for a screen explosion that these two long rivals would possibly create.<br />The film opened on Halloween of that year and made history. The chemistry paid off and the public lapped it up. <br />I wonder if Bette and Joan realized that this comeback film would become their trademark in so many ways. It was such a hit that another film was planned….but alas…the chemistry experiment backfired and Crawford pulled out near the start.<br />The strain was just too much!<br />So we are left with this one film, a blockbuster if ever. We are also left with the various press clippings, photo stills, famous rumors and the words of the stars themselves.<br /><br />Here are a few nuggets to ponder…<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Time Magazine<br />Sinisister Act<br />Friday, Nov. 23, 1962<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?</span><br /> <br /><br /><br />The door opens slowly. Joan Crawford, her eyes bulging as only Joan can bulge them, huddles in her wheelchair helplessly and stares in horror at—good grief, what is it? Its body looks like an outsize Christmas stocking stuffed with oranges, flashlights and toy trucks. Its hair suggests bleached Brillo. Its eyes might be bloodshot golfballs. Its mouth, enlarged by lipstick, looks like a greasy old bow tie that somehow rode up over its chin.<br /><br />Holy smoke, it's Bette Davis. "I've brawchoo yaw dinnah," she drawls as only Bette can drawl, then smiles like an unsanitary crocodile as she sets a tray on the table. Joan smiles weakly back at her, wheels across to the table, takes the lid off the main dish and—"EEEEEEEEEK!"<br /><br />In the center of the dish lies a big fat juicy roast rat.<br /><br />Turns, anyone? At this point, indeed, many customers will be tempted to take a powder. But those who can stomach Bette's cooking—on another occasion she serves a salad of unplucked parakeet—will be amply rewarded by the horror of her company. In what may well be the year's scariest, funniest and most sophisticated chiller, she gives a performance that cannot be called great acting but is certainly grand guignol. And Joan effectively plays the bitch to Bette's witch.<br /><br />Adapted from a novel by Britain's Henry Farrell, Baby Jane tells the story of two little monsters and how they grew. The more precocious monster, Baby Jane, is a vaudeville kiddie who at the age of six is almost as famous as Mary Pickford. Spoiled rotten, she treats her parents like dirt and her little sister like a worm. But fame fades and the worm turns. When Jane (Bette) grows up, she becomes a drunk. When sister (Joan) grows up, she becomes a Hollywood star. One night in a fury Joan tries to run Bette down, but the car strikes a stone gate instead, and Joan loses the use of her legs for life. Too drunk to remember what happened, Bette thinks that she herself had been driving the car, and Joan lets her think so. Crushed by guilt, Bette feels bound in conscience to spend the rest of her life tending a cranky and exacting cripple.<br /><br />After 25 years of servitude, Bette twigs her sister's game. The shock, the realization that she has wasted her life, knocks a screw loose. With the cunning of unreason she connives a hideous revenge. Day by day she tantalizes her sister with sumptuous meals, but after the rat and the parakeet the cripple is afraid to eat. Day by day the victim grows weaker. When she calls for help, Bette rips out the phone. When she crawls downstairs, Bette ties her up and tapes her mouth shut. When she warns the maid, Bette cracks the woman's skull.<br /><br />Gorgeous gothic stuff, in short, and Director Robert Aldrich knows just when to shock for shock's sake, just when to play his gargoyles for giggles. Under his skillful management, two aging screen queens—both of them are going on 55—give a vigorous and talented answer to a question often asked: What Ever Happened to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis?<br /><br />…………………………………………………………<br /><br />More Afterthoughts…<br /><br />In an interview after "<span style="font-style:italic;">What Ever Happened to Baby Jane</span>" was released, Bette referred to Joan and herself as "we two old broads." Joan sent Bette a note on her traditional blue stationery: <span style="font-style:italic;">"Dear Miss Davis. Please do not continue to refer to me as an old broad. Sincerely, Joan Crawford.</span>"<br /><br />"<span style="font-style:italic;">Joan and I have never been warm friends. We are not simpatico. I admire her, and yet I feel uncomfortable with her. To me, she is the personification of the Movie Star. I have always felt her greatest performance is Crawford being Crawford.</span>" - Bette Davis<br /><br />"<span style="font-style:italic;">So I had no great beginnings in legitimate theater, but what the hell had she become if not a movie star? With all her little gestures with the cigarette, the clipped speech, the big eyes, the deadpan? I was just as much an actress as she was, even though I wasn't trained for the stage.</span>" - Joan Crawford<br /><br />"<span style="font-style:italic;">I am aware of how Miss Davis felt about my makeup in Baby Jane, but my reasons for appearing somewhat glamorous were just as valid as hers, with all those layers of Rice powder she wore and that ghastly lipstick. But Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures. She called it 'Art.' Others might call it camouflage- a cover-up for the absence of any real beauty. </span>"- Joan Crawford<br /><br />About the death of Joan Crawford:<br /><br />"T<span style="font-style:italic;">here is no need to hole up in an apartment and die alone. No. None. Poor Joan. I wish I could have liked her more.</span>" - Bette Davis<br /><br /><br />Enjoy this look back…Charles:-)Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-75019494019997634172009-04-17T05:01:00.000-07:002009-04-17T05:11:36.729-07:00Kresge's Does Halloween....from the 1940's and 50's<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLCPTRe1TFHbJ-kY3OC1L_hzaKUDjZjentM_g87cE353LIPg4gw5W-8e_vS0gDim8md4kLhWYssRMeC5nelwNNjWFZPZD5ILW8FBPb8aB1Mb0c1L_4h4hvgIGoyBO8ODOgLDbunhApqgnf/s1600-h/Image17.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 176px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLCPTRe1TFHbJ-kY3OC1L_hzaKUDjZjentM_g87cE353LIPg4gw5W-8e_vS0gDim8md4kLhWYssRMeC5nelwNNjWFZPZD5ILW8FBPb8aB1Mb0c1L_4h4hvgIGoyBO8ODOgLDbunhApqgnf/s320/Image17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325631639725989426" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6AdQeeUa79Vw00dJFyoEY0otMcr0LdBBt0ZqG8TruHYQyWsKzpjhIJPRan3BPTIufMV9tw1NvO0Hce_N6TJQ0rzoe6hfDDlqDqVKEQW1S4mbrrg4fuwLbPz1oig6NIqsq4Jio9ZdzzU3/s1600-h/Image16.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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S. Kresge's</span> and how Halloween looked in their adverts from the 1940's and 1950's.<br />Enjoy and feel free to share your own photos for posting here....always a treat!<br />Charles:-)Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-76342012030911256802009-04-10T07:47:00.000-07:002009-04-10T08:07:59.531-07:00The Easter Parade from 1940-1950<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_TJKJjcX0obscX5GmnATpjauAymZZG7Y6tCcZ76qOY1MLo0HUmtlvJrvFub1CI4gSEXYOxaby7b1L3yl0WQuQGXCGSx6i1Vve0C9QCQcQMtlzD7_1uDuIqbWVlNiAsC-1LFI1dTeGx8HH/s1600-h/Image32.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_TJKJjcX0obscX5GmnATpjauAymZZG7Y6tCcZ76qOY1MLo0HUmtlvJrvFub1CI4gSEXYOxaby7b1L3yl0WQuQGXCGSx6i1Vve0C9QCQcQMtlzD7_1uDuIqbWVlNiAsC-1LFI1dTeGx8HH/s320/Image32.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323079605841824834" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkqc9OPxgGTi35oHuP9OLSdcQ96nCX_jx4h4oqHMAM2c94-UO8e0k1Oxdj3jIHNCnt9gtd6MCQKI_KOeeLFOotQW5RtRW13ScUp8w1HdXh1gRxia6wICM6FIdj0Inb_9qRGv5Do6fWLSj/s1600-h/Image31.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 96px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqL-qEku5pFyhYftsIavZjkPDamrOh62zlXruCyYiR0HTgzRa8P1UnAG48bo6uSRm3k1_Ql3_wKJ7A7CBDZVUphsv2sr3eqcPjehijdYJq4GesaCy0-0mZr_AAOjw7-F3pFjbuY-_5rLJD/s320/Image6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323077898623249730" /></a><br />Hello, Retro Lovers!<br />Today we visit Oakland, CA. and travel back to the years 1940 and 1950.<br />It's Easter and the stores and churches are out in great numbers in the local newspapers. New clothes are big and selecting just the right church to visit in them is even bigger! Enjoy these ads and church notes from these special retro years and remember that these ads were run all through "Holy Week" and the church notes took up at least FIVE pages in the Saturday paper the day before Easter Sunday.<br />Oakland had some neat smaller shops and some wonderful department stores such as Kahn's and Capwell's, both now gone.<br />Enjoy and Happy Easter!<br /><br />Charles:-)Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-7659921040517813862009-03-25T07:04:00.000-07:002009-03-26T03:14:47.949-07:00Hello, Dolly! 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNhU1qrqyxdkzKo_nmLtb0U4z6slTqjEAb_J_wfOAV90NgiSlfsSll2Ijpv8tV44_tFsIESNzl_LXJpZX_zgggBRi-AmnVBtN0AEKgqxkWzUEcP6HEq99tEHZ8uM-Z9qgy1LDyIFsul4eb/s320/bldolly.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317127871867053106" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOXLY6kiVoFtlFGtYmpJ1gsfFlHNXZVSOP5YmSj8rOwRd6Sze-sgLAAhhx0TJZyuP08lTiT-ezyBebxbzDwEee6FRc4lHMesD_Xj6TSTFnGTRAGmCekbPrXMfYIXhC_jyU9cT7bAZA67V/s1600-h/Hello+Dolly!.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOXLY6kiVoFtlFGtYmpJ1gsfFlHNXZVSOP5YmSj8rOwRd6Sze-sgLAAhhx0TJZyuP08lTiT-ezyBebxbzDwEee6FRc4lHMesD_Xj6TSTFnGTRAGmCekbPrXMfYIXhC_jyU9cT7bAZA67V/s320/Hello+Dolly!.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317127867085914370" /></a><br />Hello My Retro Lovers!<br />Today I present a tribute to a Broadway legend. <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Hello Dolly!</span> turned 45 this past January and I wanted to walk down that infamous red carpeted stairway of memories with you and salute this grand old show.<br />Growing up while the show was still running in New York and in various companies on tour, I could not help but be aware of it. I mean Mary was <span style="font-style:italic;">South Pacific</span>, Barbara was <span style="font-style:italic;">Funny Girl</span>, Ethel was <span style="font-style:italic;">Gypsy</span> and Carol was <span style="font-style:italic;">Dolly</span>. Carol Channing will always be a favorite of mine and her portrayal of Dolly Levi is etched in our American culture forever. Many other fine women played Dolly Levi over the years in the original run from 1964-1970 but Carol ruled Broadway for almost two years in the role and then toured America for another two and sealed her place in our hearts for all time. David Merrick produced <span style="font-style:italic;">Hello Dolly!</span> in 1964 and knew how market shows so they became a hit. He had so many hits on Broadway during the 60’s that it seemed like he was the Only Producer! <span style="font-style:italic;">Hello Dolly!</span> was not only a hit but a…Mega Hit!<br />Awards came flowing down like bread from heaven and in time, it would break the record held by <span style="font-style:italic;">My Fair Lady</span> as the longest running musical on Broadway.<br />Sure, newer shows have come along and broke that record by now…BUT…in the 1960’s, <span style="font-style:italic;">Dolly</span> was <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Show To See</span> and it had the magic formula that America seemed to crave. <span style="font-style:italic;">Dolly</span> opened in January 1964. It came just shortly after America was hit by the Kennedy assassination in November 1963. America was still grieving and <span style="font-style:italic;">Dolly</span> was light, uplifting and just plain loaded with “feel goodness” through and through. I know many theatre goers today may think it was far too quaint when compared with the likes of <span style="font-style:italic;">Rent</span> or <span style="font-style:italic;">Spamalot</span> but <span style="font-style:italic;">Dolly</span> filled a comforting need in the 1960’s and spoke to millions of theatre goers across the nation and…the world. <br />Each actress who came to the role of Dolly in the original run brought her own kind of touch to it. Carol was the hallmark and each of the new Dollys had to find a way to make Dolly her own. Ginger Rogers brought that touch of Hollywood glamour, Martha Raye used comedy with pathos, Betty Grable came with a sense of 1940’s nostalgia, Pearl Bailey redefined the role(Over 700 performances!!) with her famous warmth and energizing voice, Phyllis Diller…yes, I do mean Phyllis Diller… brought her comedic wit along to bounce down those red carpeted steps in her own special way. And Ethel Merman, the one whom the part was originally intended for, came along and blew the house down with two more additional songs added just for her. Ethel Merman stayed far longer than she planned and closed the record breaking show in December 1970. <br />Now I must add that Barbra won the movie role for the lavish 1969 film version and was the youngest of all the Dollys. Barbra was a dynamo and her portrayal was unique, lively and very much…Barbra! The rule was, if you love Barbra….then you will love the movie. Poor Carol, no movie…but she did get the Tony award in 1964…not Barbra.<br />Oh, well!<br />Put On Your Sunday Clothes...and enjoy these articles, ads and various photos for a special look back at <span style="font-style:italic;">Hello Dolly!</span><br /><br />Charles...........Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-70775843046421088092009-02-21T07:27:00.000-08:002009-02-22T01:42:04.371-08:00Boston's Real Dark Shadows....1962-1964Hello Retro Bloggers!<br />This update may seem rather unusual and not in keeping with my normally light and breezy retro topics but I felt a need to add some serious news items to my reflective blog mix.<br />Growing up in the Boston area has provided many unique and wonderful memories for me and many of them are represented on the various blogs I run. <br />But some memories were not…and I mean…Not Warm or Fuzzy!<br />From a very young age I was keenly aware of “bad people” who hurt others and the phrase…<span style="font-style:italic;">The Boston Strangler</span> was known to me as a demon figure that haunted the Boston area in the years just before my birth and committed unspeakably horrific crimes. My mother had mentioned the fear that all women regardless of age, race or creed felt during those years from 1962 until 1964. <br />The well travelled cobbled streets of Boston became a nightmare of shadows and fear at night…answering the doorbell became a life or death decision for some very unlucky women. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYBbPqm2f9_XsUitp1O1C5nVFHo8sMo52vNK8cF9OVORjZL61O2kIUAVQzAeE80OJltCACpxu4eruW-EwmdgMrhlCnFjZZ1F5zI-JnywmIU4AW4-lpm_wn8u1xK4wL-g0n-UPnzBQ56VQ/s1600-h/Boston_Gas_Lamp.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYBbPqm2f9_XsUitp1O1C5nVFHo8sMo52vNK8cF9OVORjZL61O2kIUAVQzAeE80OJltCACpxu4eruW-EwmdgMrhlCnFjZZ1F5zI-JnywmIU4AW4-lpm_wn8u1xK4wL-g0n-UPnzBQ56VQ/s320/Boston_Gas_Lamp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305273306696579858" /></a><br />I knew very little about the facts of the crimes until I stumbled upon an old copy of Gerald Frank’s 1966 book, <span style="font-style:italic;">The Boston Strangler</span> in a house I was cleaning as a part-time job when I was 16. <br />The now infamous book that many experts in modern criminology feel contains false and misleading information about the murders loomed large on the shelf and caught my eye.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_AfxTOUBohiHWHWQxHfc6wZk0gYZApLEzLcvSHE6ELuyEQKcMeifxFiRXDPulunEQ_uh8ccoOfSHylkYTLSoEBd6OVWy8HnVesgP6zx6wqFCv7rDEv4OukamR0ib23vFOX13wYSVw-xi/s1600-h/1966+BostonStranglerNovel.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_AfxTOUBohiHWHWQxHfc6wZk0gYZApLEzLcvSHE6ELuyEQKcMeifxFiRXDPulunEQ_uh8ccoOfSHylkYTLSoEBd6OVWy8HnVesgP6zx6wqFCv7rDEv4OukamR0ib23vFOX13wYSVw-xi/s320/1966+BostonStranglerNovel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305273628864814194" /></a><br />I asked the homeowner if I could borrow the book. She looked at me with horror and asked if I really wanted to read it. I said I grew up knowing bits and pieces of this lurid Boston tale and I wanted to know the facts…the “facts” as were recorded in 1966 and soon sold on to Hollywood for the movie rights.<br />I took the book home and read it. Feeling shocked and numb I had to sit and discuss my reading with my mother who had noticed the book in my room.<br />Together we discussed what the book said and what she recalled about those strange and terrifying times back in the early 60’s.<br />She explained how the first killing went nearly unreported but then once the third and fourth victims were found, the papers and TV went overboard. “Phantom” was what many reports called this killer because of the lack of signs of forced entry and often the doors were locked again when the “Phantom” left. The older and younger victims made all women feel like they could be next. My mom said she began to dread coming home alone from work to our apartment before my dad was there. She would look under beds and in the closets. It became a ritual with thousands of women in the metro-Boston area for the years the killings were taking place. <br />As my mother spoke, I could feel cold chills on my spine…like I was hearing a ghost story at a sleepover. Hearing these events from my mother’s point of view made it seem even more real than a dusty book…I began to wish I had left the book back on the shelf!<br />I found myself…like many others over the years…not sold on all that was written and felt there must be more to this story. It seemed all too simple. Albert DeSalvo almost seemed to want to be convicted of these crimes and so eager to “tell all” about each killing.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ja_9sFvC4Dd8iQPcLXlCN0UNMRFvUYotNQgJUuSV6d_RJZEmJsiaIhUX-uBdvM4p-Wlpaw4eLpVgb9WdneOAGATRWT7WsmnMbg7c9z1RsJkr57abLDsqCBytVEQ-s1t8ThhzOhxksIc5/s1600-h/Albert2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ja_9sFvC4Dd8iQPcLXlCN0UNMRFvUYotNQgJUuSV6d_RJZEmJsiaIhUX-uBdvM4p-Wlpaw4eLpVgb9WdneOAGATRWT7WsmnMbg7c9z1RsJkr57abLDsqCBytVEQ-s1t8ThhzOhxksIc5/s320/Albert2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305274082705855794" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinknj9iWXej_t8YzyOoleGcQpeXEuUNilFXG4J4adl7tIRb8bAlv3D9gVmeys-i4L8-u9o1l2Dj4-kvRpTnYN923QETyqOemsKnX3SO2ZH9JIHJKy0qkLOnuWd3dGZBdpcNSkNV5aOv0Da/s1600-h/Albert.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinknj9iWXej_t8YzyOoleGcQpeXEuUNilFXG4J4adl7tIRb8bAlv3D9gVmeys-i4L8-u9o1l2Dj4-kvRpTnYN923QETyqOemsKnX3SO2ZH9JIHJKy0qkLOnuWd3dGZBdpcNSkNV5aOv0Da/s320/Albert.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305274085062460002" /></a><br />The late 60’s movie based on the book left me with too many questions. It was a fine movie but the so called “real” events were not adding up for me.<br />I was lucky enough in my freshman year of college to have been assigned a chance to do some non-fiction research and writing about a topic of my choice. I chose to take my own look at the strangler killings in Boston and write my own views on the subject.<br />It was 1983 and my best source for information as a student was using the newsroom at the BPL and scanning through countless newspapers from the years 1962-1964.<br />It took ages and I soon found myself stepping back in time with each visit to the pages of the past. The headlines and photos were so stark and each victim looked at me with friendly eyes and sweet smiles. The victims became real. The crimes were becoming almost folklore…but each victim held the real truth and that grabbed me like a vice grip.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Fpyt4vF2bqCtD_NUzx0g3eNw1Z8M0vYgcyrwBVLay3-kPhlNhhuuaQnVyRSwIJqBXLQYpyNi0vHbVGKf7sCcsXIxnlIc7tgwRp1oJdZFqz-s0eTD50ySArsOGcbpetfhe-b9j9Z73p4X/s1600-h/Pat.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Fpyt4vF2bqCtD_NUzx0g3eNw1Z8M0vYgcyrwBVLay3-kPhlNhhuuaQnVyRSwIJqBXLQYpyNi0vHbVGKf7sCcsXIxnlIc7tgwRp1oJdZFqz-s0eTD50ySArsOGcbpetfhe-b9j9Z73p4X/s320/Pat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305274609262689154" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4zZNmiRrSNFZg0JBjmAfU0uS-TnwjCMx-hLKbt1KbNaQijYhXGe3nlq7PtJLYz9lZpVCIgLLvMvFQ66nf0oRyoQzTMsSK9ysIBhrrgoL-bdzF2ltoDTB-PVkf3HcGEdoJchcR7mAxuIv/s1600-h/Jane.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4zZNmiRrSNFZg0JBjmAfU0uS-TnwjCMx-hLKbt1KbNaQijYhXGe3nlq7PtJLYz9lZpVCIgLLvMvFQ66nf0oRyoQzTMsSK9ysIBhrrgoL-bdzF2ltoDTB-PVkf3HcGEdoJchcR7mAxuIv/s320/Jane.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305274609100791186" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBgAUhN6C0InEqaIGQo5YeSdb4mIYeFzjCZ6cC5GGWBwBKI8Z4gq-2nDmtm8BqJr_65HZndl7DivIzESPJzn-v8kZynY9xB52DhpiEu_VQWnmr1J7sBBrFDuFdbmPq1SqTrXn5XAdLCnj/s1600-h/Ida.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBgAUhN6C0InEqaIGQo5YeSdb4mIYeFzjCZ6cC5GGWBwBKI8Z4gq-2nDmtm8BqJr_65HZndl7DivIzESPJzn-v8kZynY9xB52DhpiEu_VQWnmr1J7sBBrFDuFdbmPq1SqTrXn5XAdLCnj/s320/Ida.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305274600948752034" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Kf4euOiHWHkSMXdIJ1MGibZbHR5fDqFS2OPNOPZ_O_Zq_K_ELqti04tUdj7IBiMcsnoP58eE3sl3CBY1E1crW8_x90e2-YvH9ifO6hnzRYG2cKcOf79rsmt2TSCq0If83nrnMdETfJIZ/s1600-h/helen.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Kf4euOiHWHkSMXdIJ1MGibZbHR5fDqFS2OPNOPZ_O_Zq_K_ELqti04tUdj7IBiMcsnoP58eE3sl3CBY1E1crW8_x90e2-YvH9ifO6hnzRYG2cKcOf79rsmt2TSCq0If83nrnMdETfJIZ/s320/helen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305274599673319266" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiEegxwdQ7i499Ijef0QL_-fiqS1QTEj4diVXt7ScbFJ_EOCF2m_C2k3MyeCQhwzlcH_dpdQgMx18pPkaIMHkH2A4s-EDrpZRyAiImMxKGFtgxXrSTatKG0QdVdGR8eH_eDRKYKoBmC1T/s1600-h/Beverly.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiEegxwdQ7i499Ijef0QL_-fiqS1QTEj4diVXt7ScbFJ_EOCF2m_C2k3MyeCQhwzlcH_dpdQgMx18pPkaIMHkH2A4s-EDrpZRyAiImMxKGFtgxXrSTatKG0QdVdGR8eH_eDRKYKoBmC1T/s320/Beverly.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305274595925655618" /></a><br />Susan Kelly's groundbreaking research and book of the mid-90’s <span style="font-style:italic;">The Boston Stranglers; The Wrongful Conviction of Albert Desalvo and the True Story of Eleven Shocking Murders</span> would have been a burst of needed fresh air to this stale case back in 1983. Kelly took a look at these same newspapers and soon could trace many of the same “details” that Albert DeSalvo used in his so-called confessions to the crimes. The papers gave little doubt as to much of the details involving each crime and even published the addresses of the victims! For a petty thief who knew how to enter an apartment, Albert was able to visit and see first hand each layout. Albert was fascinated by the case and needed to feel fame…even this demonic type. According to Kelly, DeSalvo craved notoriety at any cost. He had committed many crimes involving breaking and entering and sexual assaults…but these sexual assaults involved measuring and “touching and fondling” attractive younger ladies as he posed as a sort of talent scout. His history and family life left him wide open for sexual fantasies, sexual exploitation and these “petty” style crimes. Kelly points out that DeSalvo just did not have the “killer” instinct to do what the various crimes indicated had been done. Even before Kelly’s outstanding work, I was struck by the persona of Albert and his mild mannered ways. His closest family and friends did not believe him even remotely capable of these crimes at the time. The way he drank in the fame and his notoriously perfect memory of each crime scene seemed like a gimmick or some sort of set up even back in 1983. <br />Just looking at the case of victim number two, sixty-eight-year-old Nina Nichols, gave me serious doubts about Albert and his guilt. Nina was one of the older victims, not a “would you like to be a model” type by any means. She was chatting on the phone with a relative whom she was about to visit later that day in the evening for supper. While on the phone the doorbell rang. Her relative recalled that Nina said she would see her in a few hours and hung up to answer the door. She said she was not expecting anyone that day to call on her. Nina did not show up for dinner later as planned and in time the grim reason became known. Albert called on attractive young women to play his “fondling” games with. He would ring bells to gain entry into their apartments. As a petty thief, he broke into empty apartments. This new style of the killer, ringing bells and pretending to be a workman sent by the owner to check paint or pipes was not his style to my knowledge. The apartment was ransacked but nothing was taken. A thief would take something. In Nina’s case and in many of the others, the various pieces of this “Albert the strangler” puzzle just did not fit! Also sharing a cell with a man that some crime experts believe may very well have strangled some of the victims did not help the case for DeSalvo being the "strangler" as we look back now. Together they may have hatched a scheme to make money for their families based on the fame that came with that infamous title.<br />The amount of leaks from the crime investigation team and the possible “feeding” of vital information to Albert all look highly suspicious to crime writers today. <br />AND…several witnesses who said they saw the “strangler” at the time of some of the various strangling deaths were sure DeSalvo was NOT the man they saw…Mmmm?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWXLaab3c2SAE4vMsFVtDCOQAZA5DRhdX8y0JiKSZvKmLpPg_xmG7dqcflbFgC6oJp2e579m7FRO0UcMPhComCHoLOMMxsrHZ5eVZxPn_GScy5Z_pm-RHn2Fgr8q6uvUC-cPOw05qXhvyp/s1600-h/Mary1964.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 118px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWXLaab3c2SAE4vMsFVtDCOQAZA5DRhdX8y0JiKSZvKmLpPg_xmG7dqcflbFgC6oJp2e579m7FRO0UcMPhComCHoLOMMxsrHZ5eVZxPn_GScy5Z_pm-RHn2Fgr8q6uvUC-cPOw05qXhvyp/s320/Mary1964.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305275240072345282" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAmq7lZRalXhp4-bQhbGXuwcBm4SYe4XDUKe-UIZD-o0Vz-Ub09X905pnSjrYVZySoQABIH1tpfAiaF3gW5WG9Yo2ZkC8q0P5YM_8jI3TB4VPuMVsCq7TvjFyVJDHRm-ICVIhV2T4Y8rc/s1600-h/Early+Article.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAmq7lZRalXhp4-bQhbGXuwcBm4SYe4XDUKe-UIZD-o0Vz-Ub09X905pnSjrYVZySoQABIH1tpfAiaF3gW5WG9Yo2ZkC8q0P5YM_8jI3TB4VPuMVsCq7TvjFyVJDHRm-ICVIhV2T4Y8rc/s320/Early+Article.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305275238596166946" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWG_zHlvsP81w-FIHUHO-hvo5ebYgLaEK1sImg4ZL4q9jkTzoAAq-bH8KEzKtW2W8XZRGGpLsAlk0uqE3_LgMDnFdtBeyB56yObOLCy8-xhBra0pAEihtknd1aYdeFzNXQua_WaM7k5A6/s1600-h/Beverlynumber9.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWG_zHlvsP81w-FIHUHO-hvo5ebYgLaEK1sImg4ZL4q9jkTzoAAq-bH8KEzKtW2W8XZRGGpLsAlk0uqE3_LgMDnFdtBeyB56yObOLCy8-xhBra0pAEihtknd1aYdeFzNXQua_WaM7k5A6/s320/Beverlynumber9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305275232488048994" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHktGITq1zFGEtKZC9p2pUeau_M3w3Teu_7aimOeqoc1n18hUw50pz1R5QVGKltP6BBKgcJ3npXQSnpfxnGe9fyK_ZOTJLec-i9qMr7BR0liNKv34P3NSPO7xwtidq-1S5h5UwzET5tjz_/s1600-h/Another+Early+Article1962.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 166px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHktGITq1zFGEtKZC9p2pUeau_M3w3Teu_7aimOeqoc1n18hUw50pz1R5QVGKltP6BBKgcJ3npXQSnpfxnGe9fyK_ZOTJLec-i9qMr7BR0liNKv34P3NSPO7xwtidq-1S5h5UwzET5tjz_/s320/Another+Early+Article1962.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305275231466460338" /></a><br />Now using Kelly’s book and my memories of my research back in 1983, I can clearly see how the theory of multiple killers makes sense. I noted in my paper the strange and inconsistent choice of victims…the old…the young. Two very different groups. I relied on Frank’s book containing a theory of 1966 that Albert’s moods and various angry states were depicted by the two groups. Mothers and wives more or less. Today Albert is mad at his wife, thus a younger victim dies. Repressed mother issues of another day would result in an older victim. Mmmm?<br />I wrote it in my paper but found myself thinking it was all too perfect. Kelly was bold enough to say it was hogwash and stated that there were too many things that did not add up about each killing and the possibility of “many” copycat killers was very real!<br />Albert himself was about to reveal some “shocking” news about the killings back in 1973 but he was murdered in prison the day before his set meeting. Albert never shared all he had to say but rumors suggest he was about to un-confess to the crimes of 1962-1964 and shed light on the real killer behind at least some of the crimes.<br />Albert was a perfect man to lay these killings on back in the 1960’s. Boston wanted answers. Women wanted to feel safe. The “phantom” needed a name and face.<br />It was a solution and the public seemed at ease with it.<br />But families and friends of the various victims were not so sure. Too many unanswered questions. Albert’s family were never satisfied with these all too simple explanations of events. They never believed Albert was the killer and felt he had been a willing scapegoat. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_L3L9IyNhbA6pdaVqBb03kmCGE60ArhhM4-G1x9FonLj2QKhOUaHyn9wZPeg-vwAfUgpjzi7E7Wfo5KRPESysOaViMRvI6SJH25vcGjU0j6DdskPQ8RoRKBSXZMGBcsnyfpEeP57ThLZ/s1600-h/Mary.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_L3L9IyNhbA6pdaVqBb03kmCGE60ArhhM4-G1x9FonLj2QKhOUaHyn9wZPeg-vwAfUgpjzi7E7Wfo5KRPESysOaViMRvI6SJH25vcGjU0j6DdskPQ8RoRKBSXZMGBcsnyfpEeP57ThLZ/s320/Mary.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305276042649405490" /></a><br />In recent years one brave family was certain Albert was not the killer and felt the killer may well be still alive and free. After much tireless work and campaigning, Mary Sullivan’s (The last and youngest victim in the series of crimes) family had her body exhumed and the DNA remains found on her body did NOT match DeSalvo's DNA. So it would seem that he was not responsible for her death…leaving the haunting question....who really was?<br />This case will not rest. Too many questions remain. Time may reveal more facts and less fiction about these terrible events that gripped Boston in those early years of the 1960’s!Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-3379841530234462412009-01-29T05:59:00.000-08:002009-01-29T07:09:38.130-08:00Tune in for...The Brighter Day!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_hv6qhv76H2Pxbj-Mw98e-E29CMH4Xy6ob1mF24zi2lohNXiDbgHBOdgYritZ_ByDSY8Q7TdbaV8he-HfNjEGjAT4TKbuijhTRMR2A7JOGmpzYffwXHn3K7T0ns6ngZPGQQRsgcm6Mrv/s1600-h/opencredits1955.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_hv6qhv76H2Pxbj-Mw98e-E29CMH4Xy6ob1mF24zi2lohNXiDbgHBOdgYritZ_ByDSY8Q7TdbaV8he-HfNjEGjAT4TKbuijhTRMR2A7JOGmpzYffwXHn3K7T0ns6ngZPGQQRsgcm6Mrv/s320/opencredits1955.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296715439133475842" border="0" /></a>
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Irna Phillips, the queen of soaps from their invention in the 1930’s on radio until her death in the early 1970’s, was really the mother of all soaps. Her talented hand went into countless soaps and today <span style="font-style:italic;">Guiding Light</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">As The World Turns</span> remain as part of her creative legacy. Many of the other soaps left on the air today owe homage to her in that their creators were mentored by Irna early in their fledgling soap writing and creating careers. All hail Irna!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">One of her many creations during her heyday was the 1948 radio soap, <span style="font-style:italic;">The Brighter Day</span>. All soaps on radio were broadcast live and lasted only 15 minutes Monday thru Friday. Like many Irna creations it had a solid set of family values and a good dose of religion…the main character was a minister. The original first radio episode was all about starting a new ministry at a small church. It is so hard for us to imagine a 15 minute radio soap with this type of content today in our sex drenched world of television. Irna took great pride in giving the audience soul inspiration as well as the usual soapy situations that we all know so well. As a matter of fact, Irna’s soap opera situations are still being used today. Her realistic courtroom trials and heated love triangles were legendary!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Brighter Day</span> had many features that make it seem so quaint to us today.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Besides the Revered Dennis as a main character played for most of the run by a fatherly Blair Davies, we had Aunt Emily. Mona Bruns played this spinster character who ran the Dennis household for most of the TV run and she became a television icon of her day. Her lace collars and homespun advice are what most people recall about this show, if they recall it all.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Y2MlaqILqGgRAV4GWVvrD_RYtmqv6D802cD_FrA_2YbAsA_TVCRjDRD-g6hTeYk6UUp12ONLurU2DdqbLgDj2XHjHZ6z20BEl4aHVTUgTrj-eCmcD75TGwZ0gOkqQ3X2400c9JWLK0zq/s1600-h/MonaAuntEmily1955.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Y2MlaqILqGgRAV4GWVvrD_RYtmqv6D802cD_FrA_2YbAsA_TVCRjDRD-g6hTeYk6UUp12ONLurU2DdqbLgDj2XHjHZ6z20BEl4aHVTUgTrj-eCmcD75TGwZ0gOkqQ3X2400c9JWLK0zq/s320/MonaAuntEmily1955.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296716988240443330" border="0" /></a></p> <p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>
<br />I am sad to say that I have no actual memories of this show since it departed our airways in 1962 and I did not enter the world until 1965. So, why be so keen on this show? It’s simple…For TV and soap nostalgia buffs like me, it is a legend and gives warm fuzzy feelings. I also located and read Mona Bruns’ 1973 autobiography called, <span style="font-style:italic;">By Emily Possessed</span>, and found her and the wonderful memories of her time with the show completely charming.
<br />I was also thrilled to have been given a copy of a kinescope(film of a monitor showing a live on-air broadcast-poorish quality and normally used for west coast broadcast at a later time-slot) of a 1960 episode, one which Irna Phillips wrote and it was….a brilliant 15 minute courtroom scene.
<br />So, what happened to <span style="font-style:italic;">The Brighter Day</span>? Why did it end its run?
<br />Where do I start?
<br />Well…the show had a healthy radio run but was late in the world of radio soaps. Radio soaps were well on their way by 1948 and <span style="font-style:italic;">Brighter Day</span> had to fight to gain a place. But as we all know, TV was looming large and that was where networks needed to establish this format of sudsy daytime drama. It was not easy.
<br />Radio soaps in general did NOT make the shift to TV successfully.
<br />Most early TV soaps were not catching on and left the air quickly. Radio soaps were hanging-on for dear life by the early 50’s, some had vanished already.
<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Search For Tomorrow</span> came to CBS in the fall of 1951 and marked the first big hit for the new TV soaps. Soaps were live and only 15 short minutes!
<br />Ahhh! BUT…Search was not Irna’s! Irna wanted to break into TV soapland, she had been so popular in radio…what could she do? Her biggest hit on radio was <span style="font-style:italic;">The Guiding Light</span> and she encouraged Proctor and Gamble to take the plunge with it and begin simultaneous TV and radio broadcasts in 1952. It was risky and failures of this type were popping up all over, but it paid off…Big Time!
<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The Guiding Light</span> took off like a rocket and the door was open!
<br />The field was ripe now and many soaps were tried in the early 1950’s, most still flopped within a year of starting but in 1954 Irna took her sweet little show, <span style="font-style:italic;">Brighter Day</span> and did the simultaneous route that she adopted with <span style="font-style:italic;">Guiding Light</span>…fingers crossed it would take. So a 15minute TV version began in 1954 and was shot live Monday thru Friday in NYC and sponsored by Proctor and Gamble.
<br />(Note: The radio and TV overlap lasted until 1956, by then radio was dying and the soaps that lived there were on life support or being executed quickly and with little regard for the audience feelings. By 1960 they were all gone!)
<br />Irna crafted the show as head writer for most of the early days and then let others take on the project. The Irna scripts were by far the best according to most and when Irna moved her talents on to creating and writing her mega soap, <span style="font-style:italic;">As The World Turns</span> in 1956 which would be produced in a new 30 minute format...the little humble show began to suffer.
<br /> So, <span style="font-style:italic;">Brighter Day</span> ambled along in the new TV medium and was not as cultivated as it could or should have been. Irna was called in around 1960 to try to revive the show but by then Proctor and Gamble was pulling out and dropping the show as its sponsor and owner. Now dear old CBS took over in 1960 and took the ownership from P&G. It is well known among TV soap buffs that once P&G or another big sponsor drops a show and the network takes it over…bad news!
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<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The Brighter Day</span> suffered this fate. And it was in search of a way to be popular in this fast growing world of TV soaps. The 15 minute formula was getting stale,<span style="font-style:italic;"> As The World Turns</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Edge of Night</span> proved that 30 minutes was viable and profitable!
<br />Networks became very keen on this 30 minute format and needed to expand or cancel the older soaps to make way for new. By the 1960’s soaps were debuting constantly and NBC and ABC were now attempting to find the success that CBS seemed to own in the daytime world.
<br />Mona Bruns said her in book that the show had many writers, some good, some not and the show also had some major changes. The show changed its setting mid-way in the TV run…not a good idea and then suffered the kiss of death!
<br />Once CBS took over the show and did not know how to handle it, they had the brilliant idea of moving its entire production from NYC to sunny Television City in California 1961. No successful daytime drama originated from California as of yet and it had the makings of disaster from the beginning.
<br />When CBS made this decision, the New York based show had several lead actors pull out…no way did they want to make the trek to the West Coast. Also the show would be taped from Television City and no longer live, most daytime soaps were still live even in the new 30 minute format. Taped soaps were not successful as of yet, ahhh another cowbell of disaster!
<br />So the show moved and began its final year in TV City. Mona and Blair were the only characters the now very small loyal audience even knew. So many familiar faces gone to be replaced with new and even the new sets added to the muddled sensation regular viewers began to feel.
<br />Mona got fan letters from loyal viewers bemoaning the changes and being very grateful she remained intact…but…more changes were coming!
<br />In 1962 CBS needed space! <span style="font-style:italic;">Secret Storm</span> was doing well in the ratings and was still only 15 minutes. CBS was getting fed up with 15 minute soaps and wanted to expand all they had. <span style="font-style:italic;">Secret Storm</span> was broadcast at 4:15 EST and <span style="font-style:italic;">Brighter Day</span> at 4:00.
<br />CBS needed to expand its more successful <span style="font-style:italic;">Secret Storm</span> and it did well in the late afternoon slot….hmmm…what to do?
<br />CBS announced that <span style="font-style:italic;">Secret Storm</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Brighter Day</span>, two very popular shows…(WHAT? Now who is telling a fib?) would be expanded to 30 minutes each.
<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Secret Storm</span> would be broadcast 4 to 4:30 EST and <span style="font-style:italic;">Brighter Day</span>…would be moved to…11:30 to 11:55 EST! No soap prior to 12 noon EST had ever lived to tell of it!
<br />Now…the bright sparks out there may recall <span style="font-style:italic;">Love Of Life</span> having this slot in the later 1960’s thru to 1979…but it was never that highly rated in this position and was much more popular at 12:00 EST where it was from its premier in 1951 until the late 1960’s.
<br />So now the writers, who were already lost, had to fill another 15 minutes of air time!
<br />It came as no great shock when CBS, only shortly after the new expanded format began, decided to call it quits and end the show.
<br />The morning time slot proved fatal and many local stations were not even showing it, the morning movie craze at local stations was big and so viewers could not watch it!
<br />Plus, if you have been known as a late afternoon show…what the hell are you doing on air before lunch?
<br />The loyal, small audience mourned its passing and felt like a friend had left their midst. But many, like Mona Bruns, knew the “friend” was left back in NYC. The new format, video taping and fancy sets could not make up for the lost cast members and poor scripting of the last few years.
<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The Brighter Da</span>y faded into TV legend in September of 1962. Many critics watch the few “found” episodes and say…BORING…What a lot of preaching. Too much table chit-chat….too much coffee pouring and cooking.
<br />Well…I say…Wait!…This show paved the way for what we have today in the world of soaps and gave many actors like Hal Holbrook and Patty Duke a leg up on the ladder of an acting career.
<br />Irna Phillips did not wow us with fast paced tales of sex and adventure, no…her stories took time and yes…they had sex and lust and murder, too…but a message was woven in as well!
<br />If only Irna had kept writing <span style="font-style:italic;">Brighter Day</span> faithfully, well….who knows…it might have lived a long healthy life on TV.
<br />Mona Bruns would never live down being Aunt Emily and she never regretted being known only for this part. Mona did much in the way of theatre and TV but nothing would change the public…You are Aunt Emily…and that was cool with her!
<br />By the way, she lived to be very old…100…what else would we expect from Aunt Emily!
<br />Enjoy these bits of trivia of <span style="font-style:italic;">Brighter Day</span>. Some of the time zones presented are not EST, so be aware! Also you too can watch a classic 1955 episode of this show at:
<br /> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYAEBYQf3nw
<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d-W6rIvBA8
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<br />For your information I present this as well:
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<br />Radio NBC: 1948-1956
<br />TV CBS: January 4, 1954-September 28, 1962
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<br />Cast
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<br />Mike Barton ... Chris Hamiliton (1960-1961)
<br />Mary Linn Beller ... Babby Dennis (1954-1959) (original television cast)
<br />Walter Brooke ... Donald Harrick (1956-1958)
<br />Mona Bruns ... Aunt Emily Potter (1954-1962) (original television cast)
<br />Brook Byron ... Althea Dennis (1954-1955) (original television cast)
<br />Forrest Compton ... Grayling Dennis #3 (1961-1962)
<br />Blair Davies ... Rev. Richard Dennis #2 (1954-1962)
<br />June Dayton ... Patsy Dennis #2 (1961-1962)
<br />Peter Donat ... Steven Markley (1958)
<br />Patty Duke ... Ellen Williams Dennis #1 (1958-1959)
<br />Bennye Gatteys ... Judith Potter (1962)
<br />Diane Gentner ... Sandra Talbot Dennis #1 (1956)
<br />Ernest Graves ... Eliot Clark #2 (1960)
<br />Dean Harens ... Dr. Charles Fuller (1960-1961)
<br /> Jayne Heller ... Althea Dennis (1956)
<br /> Hal Holbrook ... Grayling Dennis #1 (1954-1959)
<br /> Gloria Hoye ... Sandra Talbot Dennis #2 (1957-1959)
<br /> Rex Ingram ... Unknown (1962)
<br /> Paul Langton ... Walter Dennis (1962)
<br /> Geoffrey Lumb ... Mitchell Dru (1962)
<br /> Nancy Malone ... Babby Dennis (1959-1960)
<br /> Lori March ... Lenore Bradley (1956-1958)
<br /> Anne Meacham ... Althea Dennis (1960-1961)
<br /> Lois Nettleton ... Patsy Dennis (1954-1957)(original television cast)
<br /> James Noble ... Grayling Dennis #2 (1959-1960)
<br /> Maggie O'Neill ... Althea Dennis (1960)
<br /> Don Penny ... Toby Ballard (1962)
<br /> Nicholas Pryor ... (1958)
<br /> Nancy Rennick ... Sandra Talbot Dennis #4 (1961-1962)
<br /> Benny Rubin ... Mort Barrows (1962)
<br /> Lanna Saunders ... Ellen Dennis Williams #2 (1960-1961)
<br /> Joseph Sirola ... Peter Nino (1959-1960)
<br /> Lilia Skala ... Mrs. Dunbar (1955)
<br /> Charles Taylor ... Bud Clark (1959)
<br /> Larry Ward ... Dr. Randy Hamiliton (1954-1957)
<br /> Larry Weber ... Eliot Clark #1 (1959)
<br /> Mary K. Wells ... Sandra Talbot Dennis #3 (1960-1961)
<br /> Murial Williams ... Lydia Canfield (1956-58)
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<br />More soon....Charles!!!!
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<br />Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-55107861965249613262008-10-10T09:51:00.000-07:002008-10-10T10:05:55.270-07:00Happy Halloween.....1960's Style<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZgltIVbgcIUGTLBCZ18LHFjNpliSBJyiO4t2cb5FDtJqZovi0MNaRLtWTLfu2ZQxXDW6VQg4-RH5xeVyeHaQDEbDmOQNMGxQOGx9oo5HxqQOvu3XRVYu48c_PxvrXlKGMHYdIwaTLzatQ/s1600-h/mars1960's.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZgltIVbgcIUGTLBCZ18LHFjNpliSBJyiO4t2cb5FDtJqZovi0MNaRLtWTLfu2ZQxXDW6VQg4-RH5xeVyeHaQDEbDmOQNMGxQOGx9oo5HxqQOvu3XRVYu48c_PxvrXlKGMHYdIwaTLzatQ/s320/mars1960's.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255572370831623746" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiD3nqagOasq-jFhFpPMuG2Bw-VBcUCyRj3LlxkUHnTSmRaaB1BixYmkxDE76sMqO7tJd1p57nV17xRgKwezMWcGu7tTUDnaFOaiG4cypRdrf7gsCwsjSpf548JZUT6nzNCFcYnXGRMhl9/s1600-h/hween1960-9.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXpYgYn_XTRCNz8dUDgvV7F14w97iJqESc3G4BPJ8OBrQqgeASIPb4B6EQCmkp7bH_h1NsZHIgPhmZCH40nI6NutZx9rKCdar3XSWxUFfBe7_w7q8rYZTjOSf-cgG40GMbT4DD7jbHCwYB/s320/hween1960-4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255571616321409186" /></a><br /><p>Hello Retro Fans!</p><p>More spooky fun as we move into the 1960's. </p><p>The stores still enjoy selling bags of trick or treat delights, costumes of the usual sort and a few popular TV characters as well but now the newspapers begin to feature "How to be Safe at Halloween" type articles. This "not so nice side of Halloween " is a new trend and more will come as the decade draws to a close. </p><p>I really love the costume contest at the Jerry Lewis double feature......nifty keen!!!!!</p><p></p><p>Enjoy!!</p><p></p><p>Charles:-)</p>Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-3998769952776380922008-10-05T09:35:00.000-07:002008-10-05T09:50:08.846-07:00Happy Halloween....1950's Style<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcHGW9MrZhjHdv8kCDmQ6py8MVHnRizNYKg2-OlBpizxWmE958YKITveGzhcNc4TV93B1qaQtmeZ50VvPj9DRh77gve2uwlpROtzS-MF2bjcjRRWTnT-nPhDpxopby00KhUvJnxdjganX/s1600-h/hween50-14.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcHGW9MrZhjHdv8kCDmQ6py8MVHnRizNYKg2-OlBpizxWmE958YKITveGzhcNc4TV93B1qaQtmeZ50VvPj9DRh77gve2uwlpROtzS-MF2bjcjRRWTnT-nPhDpxopby00KhUvJnxdjganX/s320/hween50-14.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253712852968342274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsErne4tYoZbnsXW-GpXUuCsawDWbVOt2_5qGtjj9kP3PDf_lc4mU0epk-XaNJB6aTWfDEuV8weZV2tKmgz8kLXGOp2a2tFy8b41Fw-9-LZyw72RDfhz-o2oPGoxJalP1M_TluXS1liTWF/s1600-h/hween50-15.jpg"><img style="float:right; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZUHYnKa4LLDLrifNyMgbb8FUh1-6QGH1yFF8aCHtvFbnL19mNUI1aX3ftXLr3RehE5b-q8ed6PZz4O5KQ2F5qyjBamSv5eg6bPGv2g9sR-o5O_m6rbh2mK18Ls6c8bqxIEdBhyphenhyphen0qvYoM/s320/hween50-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253712038110917250" /></a><br /><p>Hello My Fellow Retro Lovers!</p><p>Now for the next few updates I will be visiting Halloween in Retroland!</p><p>I have such fond memories of this special night. I know not all share my views but in my home town of Brookline and on my street, Halloween was fun and safe! </p><p>The 1950's newspapers did not warn us to be alert, check our candy or any of what we are so used to today in regards to this special day each year. </p><p>Let's take a look at how Halloween was presented in print in the 1950's....very simple, not too scary and lots of fun!</p><p></p><p>More to come.....Promise!</p><p></p><p>Boooooooooo!!!!! Charles....................................</p>Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-34627590195777077802008-09-13T06:49:00.000-07:002008-09-13T08:15:43.269-07:00It's....The Lucy Show<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh786P_j2owkTcWRS5DhbuxSBNhIuG9uVI-dYbHS9hg-eVjGXsYmx8SG4FDpu3OBNp8jKhUxezlX22AIRdToDcqkz1Mn2IOUnyUECEGsKjb4obaP6tIlyJPMb4eroibhxkihjv1st-3auPb/s1600-h/lucy1962-8.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh786P_j2owkTcWRS5DhbuxSBNhIuG9uVI-dYbHS9hg-eVjGXsYmx8SG4FDpu3OBNp8jKhUxezlX22AIRdToDcqkz1Mn2IOUnyUECEGsKjb4obaP6tIlyJPMb4eroibhxkihjv1st-3auPb/s320/lucy1962-8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245524810927082866" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvG_1KqaE_xlA0GUSuonmsRpm7a5Tn9ZrfYJsdQAssR-PIhyUeNzM9bc0YJrKhrcCSw38lt00aUAgwvS_JAno1rxi03IblvjYfDoGfPyM9OXFhrgyNZllj36_B1yLl46dHuCLrXWk9D8hl/s1600-h/Lucy1962-9.jpg"><img style="float:right; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAV8EFJ1VTpD6s6tAAbJhEXF5hxnbI9BJdVB6pIkdVX7Dg308ZrWXK0uxY-L-nit7PYl89ur8rPFlYs_MS9-ayhyphenhyphen_Omogt4wGRdKjwU3uF_coJ00oM9XQjvPUZDwe6ezxl9hyiPeSq18e9/s320/Lucy1962-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245524340888988434" /></a><br /><p>Hello my Retro Buddies!</p><p>Now today I present to you a few items from 1962. Lucy had taken a few years off doing a regular TV series and was about to jump back into sitcomville with a new show. </p><p>"I Love Lucy" and the following non-weekly "Lucy and Desi Comedy Hour" specials were still very much on America's mind and often rerun on TV lots by 1962. Lucy had to compete with the old shows and try to make sure her new one was not confused with the old. She was no longer married to "Ricky" but had a whole new character to play. The last of her "Lucy and Desi" shows had been shot in 1959 and aired in April 1960. Could America accept her new role without Desi?</p><p>Vivian Vance was back as her comedy sidekick. Would the magic still be there?</p><p></p><p>Many newspapers ran articles leading up to the October debut of the new show and it did cause a bit of stir. Americans wanted the famous redhead back and were keen for any details of the new show that would mark her return.</p><p>Enjoy these articles and photos and one great advert that ran the day of the debut back in 1962!</p><p></p><p> </p>Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-35258228155616709412008-09-01T03:17:00.000-07:002008-09-01T03:26:29.675-07:00Back To School 1973<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4hx5aORaGAC-g2pOuT3yDQK4AaSuYEV0HaJYXf8EQvfiPjd-bn1yfz-iaUYIIWpeWvHOFO4VO2NALSGEqq5O3Oa5jkwvgzKmewJLd69bMlBkyn2CjuRHWVNLIbAp3BUMteXu3Xcpzp2D/s1600-h/bts1973-6.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4hx5aORaGAC-g2pOuT3yDQK4AaSuYEV0HaJYXf8EQvfiPjd-bn1yfz-iaUYIIWpeWvHOFO4VO2NALSGEqq5O3Oa5jkwvgzKmewJLd69bMlBkyn2CjuRHWVNLIbAp3BUMteXu3Xcpzp2D/s320/bts1973-6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240997205743859202" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc9DgURUmI3g_tDNmF0VfH55NWhKoilIp8TdXVI9GpqBukV8sZB5cCkiIOfTGPaGPiy2xzKr4zAtqIVtbMOptbYci3MRUe7_CTUiUVnbyjMA3GJRsmMl1s6KlibvMeEbxjei-vEl8T6G87/s1600-h/bts1973-7.jpg"><img style="float:right; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnoL2AzTszt-g659qxd0yrU8f2xotSzxSrU8mfvqniTjod5R_aGhv6BZjGCWXq5ooLymdBAYw8HTXYq3r5BtxvWfwFX4YFni8bN04ojvn9X2zlz_U_Ts6tn_bArM4PSu3pzyT4KV1-DwY/s320/bts1973-5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240997044195740770" /></a><br /><p>This is our last stop in our "back to school" shopping trip for this year!</p><p>Hello 1973! Bridgeport, CT. is changing so fast. The big department stores are not as popular as they used to be and chain discount stores are now more common. Shopping plazas and malls are taking business away from downtown as well. Wonderful old Leavitt's closed its doors in 1970. </p><p>In time, all the original downtown department stores will be history.</p><p>Enjoy this visit to 1973!</p><p></p><p>Charles.............</p><p>charles65ofboston@yahoo.com</p><p></p>Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-64631806267174076272008-08-28T04:42:00.000-07:002008-08-28T04:53:37.123-07:00Back To School 1964<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpyw88YHOz0Z-vtszcOygRJLU2HrguIfovx0GAG-t23OR4BwlLmbCTOKA5uGTrgu8Kypr7G-dBu-w9G1Y48tr1YSH9Yn62kCaHm8YhV-MJBpxsegTxNn6X4o6WVa64Ii-vphRI0vP_7RE/s1600-h/bts10.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpyw88YHOz0Z-vtszcOygRJLU2HrguIfovx0GAG-t23OR4BwlLmbCTOKA5uGTrgu8Kypr7G-dBu-w9G1Y48tr1YSH9Yn62kCaHm8YhV-MJBpxsegTxNn6X4o6WVa64Ii-vphRI0vP_7RE/s320/bts10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239535233783740338" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwol1vIV70Z7bGpPWZJvIKq2IHpE3UQCnr_OGbHSDulIOUIe-JLDOGCR_MQ2iItwZ6K-0-CuTtl_WUJfdordb3FCrKpUWBepnr-QmDAfnCPgyR_v_-1k8WfV3GpkNJNdAEzOr9TZAgcuGL/s1600-h/bts11.jpg"><img style="float:right; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinptsAF_K-0qzMx-Kw1iGGPHYZjX7WD_wHaR4s6l5AK1oXdgKzFgYM3jhoufaWYkTGMVqaUqyR7kfgQp53fIoCXpWjQO3T4UHYlx5gVJ1ELZ0SdgVR9_ZRIbQyke6a_24widRsA0CdtLAp/s320/bts5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239534667078766354" /></a><br /><p>Hello Folks! Still walking down the streets of Bridgeport, CT. and the year is now 1964.</p><p>Kids are getting ready to go back to school and the month of August is nearly over.</p><p>The local big stores and the national chain stores are mostly the same as in 1957 with a few new ones tossed in for fun. </p><p>I love the Skydel's hooded parka ad the best....they're "in" and "groovy"....now that's retro!</p><p></p><p>Enjoy!!! Charles:-)</p><p></p><p>charles65ofboston@yahoo.com</p>Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555490624486011614.post-38093621715193148162008-08-27T06:49:00.000-07:002008-08-27T07:35:05.451-07:00Back To School 1957<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOaldJ7ylJdiw1DBTxPbEMcl0ZHgLeBhPtxvJSYptH5FFxlcvu0fruJpS18ht8JkGXqY8HXjQPm9-HumFQYR3qnSxCLyHl85BqglfaoBzcNyAyJcVEjL11lHt5MJVPDUmdYdUdjbOYX9o/s1600-h/back2sch6.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOaldJ7ylJdiw1DBTxPbEMcl0ZHgLeBhPtxvJSYptH5FFxlcvu0fruJpS18ht8JkGXqY8HXjQPm9-HumFQYR3qnSxCLyHl85BqglfaoBzcNyAyJcVEjL11lHt5MJVPDUmdYdUdjbOYX9o/s320/back2sch6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239205973062361618" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVPwUexpOUEO8LRUgycW68Htwe3FtP7fazzvZUphO6HO_9aXLxXUy-alHf8YoL6kn97SQlhkAYX52TGHdbmMdqIniWEJs2e4erGWCHhGwxzq4OGUtgZiTdDOwdyIrGgWs8agmrG8KSpT6g/s1600-h/back2sch7.jpg"><img style="float:right; 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My first "mini" theme to kick off with is...Back to School.</p><p>I shall post store ads and various bits of information from newspapers with the "back to school" theme and give you a hint of those great styles that the kids wore during my various visits to certain years way back in our wonderful retro past. </p><p>The year is 1957. The place is Bridgeport, Connecticut. I had no idea what a great spot downtown Bridgeport was back in retro times with lots of great and unique department stores of its very own.</p><p>I have many ads from Bridgeport over the years and it is a great place to visit to get a good feel for what we bought, wished we could buy and what we were told we just HAD to have by these great stores now long gone. </p><p>Now I will let Leavitts, Kay's, Read's, Skydel's, Howland's and more do the talking:-)</p><p>Enjoy! More to follow!</p><p>Charles......</p><p>charles65ofboston@yahoo.com</p>Charles Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278135552869321628noreply@blogger.com0