Growing Up in 1970's Florida

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on January 28, 2008

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Some TV and other Tidbits

I was watching a VH1 special on the 1970's tonight (great timing, though I only saw about 20 minutes of it) and came away with these: TV Shows: Barney Miller. A great collection of characters in Jack Soo (sp?), Wojo (I won't attempt the whole name), Fish, and, of course, Barney. WKRP in Cincinnati. Venus Flytrap, Johnny Fever, Les Nessman, the blonde (what was her name?). Charo. Enough said (cuchi!) Christy McNichol. Farah Fawcett. Her image on that poster I had in my room is indelibly seared on my brain. Here is something I would like very much to know what happened to it: in thinking about Star Trek (the real one with Spock and Kirk), I suddenly remembered I had a set of blue prints of the star ship Enterprise! What the heck happened to those!! Did Mom throw those out when she moved?! When I left for college (1982), I left a room full of my life to date in College Park, not thinking even once that Mom would sell the house. That was 15 years of my life! I can't believe I ...

A Look Back With a New Lens: Back Yard Citrus

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NCC-1701 Blueprints, Hamsters, and the Age of Mobility

Enterprise NCC-1701 Blueprints Originally uploaded by g_suttenfield Okay, my first real ebay experience has ended, and just as I had heard, everything happens in the last minutes and seconds of the auction! I was out-bid in the last seconds of both I had bid on. HOWEVER, there were a couple others that had a Buy Now option, and one of them was cheaper than my previuos high bids, including shipping! So, I am the proud owner of not one, but two sets of blueprints, one of which will be a birthday gift for a friend of mine. So why am I talking about blueprints for the Starship Enterprise, much less buying them? Because I remember owning these as a kid, of course. These were published around 1975, and figuring I didn't get them when hot off the press, I suppose I had them around 1976. I would have been twelve years old, in 6th grade at Lake Silver Elementary. Interestingly, that is the only elementary school grade for which I can't remember my teacher's name. Not only that, I h...

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