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abuelo gringo

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  1. Seven seasons on Britbox. I think about $7 per month.
  2. When I was in school, the Ticket was still WRR. I used to listen to it on Friday and Saturday nights for Blues and R&B with Jim Lowe and his "How Blue Can You Get?" show. Since it's been 50+ years since I left the Grove for Austin, I probably never encountered Blue from the Grove. Definitely a pre-Ticket reference.
  3. One of them was prescient. "Ted Cruz sold us out!"
  4. We shared a tent block with Hillcrest guys at a high school ROTC camp at Camp Wolters TX back in the sixties. Some called it Hebrew High. One guy (goy) said it was great going to school on Jewish high holy days. So few students and teachers were there, everybody roamed the halls and hung out.
  5. Mind you, they'd all be 70+ year old GILFs now, if still alive.
  6. I had a history teacher, Dr. Talmadge White, that once said that most of us would graduate from HS, stay in what he called "Peasant Grove", marry a high school sweetheart, and live the rest of our lives in PG. Maybe that's why you never met any. I, luckily, escaped that, but many I went to HS with didn't. However, the Director of the Briscoe Center of American History at UT Austin and a former Democratic Party Chair of Fayette Co were co graduates of mine.
  7. W.W. Samuell was not a northern DISD school. I graduated from there, also, but five years after Martin was born. I was long gone to Austin before he was a radio personality. I did meet two Bryan Adams graduates in my work career. They were about six years different in age and did not know each other in high school. I did meet John Colley (later John Ford Colley) in high school. He wasn't in Samuell yet, but was in a friend's band.
  8. I think Amazon also has Inspector Lewis, the series about Morse's DSS after he's promoted to DI. It may be the best of the three. Just checked. It's on PBS stream and you have to pay for it on Amazon. I watched it free, but don't remember if it was on another streaming channel.
  9. For those old enough to remember 1965:
  10. I think I had or have 12 of them. Lost hundreds of vinyl and compact discs in a flood. I also had many by same artists, but different albums. Fairly good list. Getz/Gilberto belongs, but not sure at number 3. To paraphrase Todd Snider I have tons and tons and tons of Bix and of Louis.
  11. Ferry Across the Mersey was pretty big here. Just checked - it, How Do You Do It, and Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying were all top ten US singles. Part of the British Invasion for those old enough to remember.
  12. For viewing, probably Roberts Point Park, but a lot of people park in parking lots on the N end of the island or along Port Street. In the past, those areas were ridiculously crowded, a real traffic mess at the end. We were lucky last year to be invited to a private residence on the N end of Sixth St. where we could watch from a 2nd story balcony. We generally watch from our place on S. 11th, where you can only sees the higher, bigger bursts because of the buildings in between.
  13. We've been going to Port A for many years for NYE and will again this year. Always just at the house. We did get an invite last year to watch the fireworks over the channel at the house of a friend of an in-law. We may go outside to watch parts of this year's fireworks at a distance, but mostly stay inside watching TV festivities. Son may come down. In year's past, kids and grandkids would often come, but not expecting much this year.
  14. Just finished his The Zealot and the Emancipator about John Brown and Lincoln. He reads very easy. Will have to read more of his.
  15. My dad preferred it with buttermilk, but it was rarely available in our house, as he was the only one who would drink it. He grew up on a farm outside Savoy, Texas. With whole milk, he called it "cornbread and sweet milk". He especially liked it for breakfast with any cornbread left over from the last night's supper. Probably not a lot different from corn cereals.
  16. Didn't see The Man from Snowy River. Thought Tom Burlinson might be Audie Murphy. Happy to see Gene and Roy. I grew up watching them. I think a lot of these were one time cowboys, like Tom Hanks will soon be.
  17. Right actor, wrong movie. Little Big Man.
  18. I miss this and Darlene Love's Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) with Bruce Kapler's baritone solo on the old Late Night.
  19. Same problem with non recognition. On this home page, link allows you to set up account with new software. Requires email address your account was under. They email you and it lets you set up. Also requires a stronger password than the old site did. After doing so, it connects you with old account, but not all historical data.
  20. Dat you, Ray?
  21. Is that the same building that was Bufatso's?
  22. I think Irie's has been a favorite of several posters on this thread. This is from their facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/iriesislandfood
  23. Thanks for the heads up. I always like to watch films of things I saw in real time (via television and newspapers, I wasn't in Chicago). Interesting comparing the presentations to what I can remember. Sorkin should do a commendable job.
  24. Port A ain't cheaper to live than most of Texas.
  25. Yeah, but Port A doesn't need a foot or more of rain all at once.
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