THROWBACK THURSDAY

[nfd2004]

Johnny, "The Skipper" as he was known from the very popular TV series "Gilligan's Island" actual name is; Alan Hale. After doing a little cheating, much like I did in my younger school days to get through, I found that info. "Gilligan's Island" was another one of those great TV series as has been discussed on this site in "Television from a different time" in the History section.

Interesting, but "The Skipper", actually served at sea, owned a lobster restaurant, and booked boat cruises in real life.

Sorry about the little cheating I had to do Johnny to find his name, "but it was kinda bugging me".

Regarding that Swiss Army knife, I too have one. I keep it in the Willy Ds Buff Mobile all the time.

Of course the old Boy Scout Handbook was the bible for so many of us young guys back in those days. I remember they had a merit badge that was given for "Firemanship". It taught us all about fire extinguishers and how to use them, what to do in case of a fire, and how to prevent a fire from happening. I passed that all on my own, WITHOUT CHEATING.

Once again, THANK YOU Johnny for your "Throwback Thursdays", as some of us more senior members go back to the days of such a different time.

 

[fdce54]

Photo #2 is of the Boy Scout Pinewood Derby cars at the starting line ready to race.

 

[JohnnyGage]

Johnny, "The Skipper" as he was known from the very popular TV series "Gilligan's Island" actual name is; Alan Hale. After doing a little cheating, much like I did in my younger school days to get through, I found that info. "Gilligan's Island" was another one of those great TV series as has been discussed on this site in "Television from a different time" in the History section.

Interesting, but "The Skipper", actually served at sea, owned a lobster restaurant, and booked boat cruises in real life.

Sorry about the little cheating I had to do Johnny to find his name, "but it was kinda bugging me".

Regarding that Swiss Army knife, I too have one. I keep it in the Willy Ds Buff Mobile all the time.

Of course the old Boy Scout Handbook was the bible for so many of us young guys back in those days. I remember they had a merit badge that was given for "Firemanship". It taught us all about fire extinguishers and how to use them, what to do in case of a fire, and how to prevent a fire from happening. I passed that all on my own, WITHOUT CHEATING.

Once again, THANK YOU Johnny for your "Throwback Thursdays", as some of us more senior members go back to the days of such a different time.

Thanks Willy for sharing. Yes, the photo is of Alan Hale, BUT the character portrayed in the photo above was BEFORE Gilligans Island, sorry little buddy. The question is "what is the "characters" name  Hale is portraying in the photo?  Hint; the television series lasted one season just before 1960...that's the twist...

I was in the Boy Scouts for a couple of years, the ONLY merit badge I earned, like you, was the "FIREMANSHIP" merit badge, I didn't give a hoot about the others ( the firemanship merit badge is top right in photo #8; collection of merit badges). Also, while completeing the merit badge at the local volunteer firehouse, I was told about the new "Junior Fireman" program that was being developed. I became charter member of the junior fireman program and turned my canteen in with the Boy Scouts.

 

[nfd2004]

Johnny, "The Skipper" as he was known from the very popular TV series "Gilligan's Island" actual name is; Alan Hale. After doing a little cheating, much like I did in my younger school days to get through, I found that info. "Gilligan's Island" was another one of those great TV series as has been discussed on this site in "Television from a different time" in the History section.

Interesting, but "The Skipper", actually served at sea, owned a lobster restaurant, and booked boat cruises in real life.

Sorry about the little cheating I had to do Johnny to find his name, "but it was kinda bugging me".

Regarding that Swiss Army knife, I too have one. I keep it in the Willy Ds Buff Mobile all the time.

Of course the old Boy Scout Handbook was the bible for so many of us young guys back in those days. I remember they had a merit badge that was given for "Firemanship". It taught us all about fire extinguishers and how to use them, what to do in case of a fire, and how to prevent a fire from happening. I passed that all on my own, WITHOUT CHEATING.

Once again, THANK YOU Johnny for your "Throwback Thursdays", as some of us more senior members go back to the days of such a different time.

Thanks Willy for sharing. Yes, the photo is of Alan Hale, BUT the character portrayed in the photo above was BEFORE Gilligans Island, sorry little buddy. The question is "what is the "characters" name  Hale is portraying in the photo?  Hint; the television series lasted one season just before 1960...that's the twist...

I was in the Boy Scouts for a couple of years, the ONLY merit badge I earned, like you, was the "FIREMANSHIP" merit badge, I didn't give a hoot about the others ( the firemanship merit badge is top right in photo #8; collection of merit badges). Also, while completeing the merit badge at the local volunteer firehouse, I was told about the new "Junior Fireman" program that was being developed. I became charter member of the junior fireman program and turned my canteen in with the Boy Scouts.

Johnny, after going through all that extra effort to cheat, in the long run it really didn't pay off. I guess for me just another lesson learned as I am still tying to grow up to be a "mature adult". I guess for some of us, "it just takes soooo long".

We didn't have any "Junior Fireman" program in my day. I sure wish they did. But I would ride my bike with one of those pull chain sirens and some old rubber boots and a rain coat in a basket, chasing the fire trucks when they went by. Of course in my mind, I really thought I was a junior fireman. Sometimes if there was a fire, the guys would let me help them pick up the hose. WOW, how great that was. Some of them knew my father who was also on the job or they knew me when I used to go to the firehouse with him to pick up his pay check. (for photo of those days see: "COVID-19" - replies #33 and #34 in "Fire Operations"). 

 

[1261Truckie]

Alan Hale Jr = Casey Jones (from a short lived - no pun intended - TV series of the same name)

 

[JohnnyGage]

Alan Hale Jr = Casey Jones (from a short lived - no pun intended - of the same name)

 

[JohnnyGage]

NO. 27; "THE NAKED CITY":


FEARLESS LEADERS:








CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS CONCEPT CAR?



WHEN LIFE WAS A EASY AS PIE:






CRIME VICTIMS, WHO IS WHO?


A.


B.

ON THE TOWN:






WHAT IS IT?


C.


D.

TO MY FRIENDS...


Be well, be safe!  This too, shall pass... JG

 

[8060rock]

Leaders
Useless Lindsay
How'm I doin' Koch
Nelson Rockefeller

Crimes
Kitty Genovese
Lt. William Calley

 

[68jk09]

Easy as pie is the Automat....ready made food & deserts in individual coin operated dispensers refilled from the backside......On The Town is a later model 7 passenger Checker Cab with a Chevy engine....earlier models had single headlights ....the 7 passenger models had 2 fold up jump seats behind the front bench.....yellow car ifo the bars might be a 57 Plymouth Savoy ?.....what is it = an automatic push button transmission selector...the lever allows you to put it in or out of Park.

 

[raybrag]

OK, Johnny Gage.  You can't leave this one alone, unanswered.  What the truck was it? (Looks like something Willy D might have put together in his back yard.)

CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS CONCEPT CAR?

 

[JohnnyGage]

Hi Ray, it is a 1958 Plymouth Toronado concept car that was found and restored!

 

[t123ken]

Is it the Anycar - an amalgam of several different vehicles to promote auto loans by the old Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank?

 

[t123ken]

On further review, it's not the Anycar.

 

[raybrag]

Hi Ray, it is a 1958 Plymouth Toronado concept car that was found and restored!

Thank you, Dan.  It is truly fugly. 

I've gotta admit that it reminds me of the 1937 Horch that a Czech fire department reworked into a piece of fire apparatus . . . at least the front end of it . . .

 

[nfd2004]

OK, Johnny Gage.  You can't leave this one alone, unanswered.  What the truck was it? (Looks like something Willy D might have put together in his back yard.)

CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS CONCEPT CAR?

Ray, nothing like what I am able to put together. But it sure would have made a great "buff mobile" back in the day. 

Kind of what the "Chop Shops" on Jerome Ave in the Bronx would be selling in the 70s and 80s.  8)

 

[JohnnyGage]

NO. 28; "THE NAKED CITY":





CHA-CHING:



















WHERE MIGHT YOU FIND THESE PRODUCTS:










"YOU CAN TRUST YOUR CAR TO THE MAN........."  WHO?


WHAT IS IT?

 

[nfd2004]

Dan, I was really into those "Uncle Sam's 3 coin register banks". The bottom flap could be opened when a total of $10.00 was in there. When it opened I put half into a savings account and the other half would go toward some candy, ice cream or maybe a toy fire truck.

When I started saving all over again, once 25 cents was deposited into that bank, the bottom flap would then lock again.

I think I still have that bank among the debris in my collection at the Ole' Homestead. 

 

[raybrag]

Ahh, the A&P.  I spent 6 years of high school and college working in 5 different A&P stores.  The 1st was an older store in Long Beach, and they closed it after i had worked there for a year or so. They moved me temporarily to the Rockville Centre store while a new one was built in Long Beach, then when it opened, I went to it.  The other two stores were in Island Park and Oceanside, and I was sent to them on a temp basis during my summer stints as a full-time employee. The NCR cash register you show is actually one of the newer models, and the new Long Beach store was the only one which had them. The older ones were black, and when you pressed the department keys, you still had to enter an amount, then press what is shown on the pictured version as the "grocery" key for it to ring the item up. With these "newer" ones, you keyed in an amount, then pressed the department key and it registered the item. Then when you were done, you moved the chrome lever with the ball on top up one notch to subtotal, then another notch up to total and open the cash drawer.  If you turned the key in the keyway above the "Grocery" key, it would open up the upper part of the slot, and you could get business subtotals "X out" or close business for the day "Z out". And this could easily have come from an A&P . . . it had "A" and "B" cash drawers.  Not all NCRs did.

And that ad . . . when was the last time you saw "Red Circle" or "Bokar" coffee? You can still buy "Eight O'Clock" (somebody bought the name). But Red Circle was always the best seller in the stores I worked in.  It was the medium-priced brand,  while Eight O'Clock was the cheapest. And I still remember the Jane Parker Spanish Bar Cake . . . it was delicious.  Wish I could find one now. 

 

[Disp51]

You can trust your car to the man who wears the star - the bright red Texaco star.

 

[johnd248]

Talking about A & P stores, growing up we had one on Church Avenue near the subway station at East 18th Street,  When I was an infant, my mother told my father she was going to the A&P.  She would take my brother, two years older, and leave me and my other brother, five years older, home with him.  She left George in a stroller on Church Avenue while she did her shopping.  When done, she walked right past him and got home.  When she asked my father where George was, he said "you took him to the store."  She rushed back and found him just sitting in the stroller.  He has never been the same!  Try that in these days!!