Leaving The Table, Still Hungry

We should have had more!

Published on July 31, 2004 By Anne Alogy In Blogging

Heads Up, Hackneyed,

My latest list is of people, and things of all sorts that we didn't get enough of. They all stopped much too early. Maybe they fall into the category of All Good Things Must Come To An End. Dammit. I'm sure it will be incomplete, I always think of something I want to say later on, but here goes, anyway:

The Beatles.....John F. Kennedy.....Rod Serling.....Mark "The Bird" Fydrich.....Karen Carpenter.....Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA).....The WWE's Christopher Nowitzki, The Harvard Guy (He was hilarious!).....The American Football League.....Hank Williams, Sr......Studebakers.....Dorothy Dandridge.....The World Trade Center.....Sandy Koufax.....George Orwell.....The Philharmonic Auditorium in Downtown Los Angeles.....Tyrone Power.....Orange Julius.....Woolworth's.....Robert F. Kennedy.....Buddy Holly.....The National Lampoon.....Joe Namath.....W.C. Fields.....Tony Conigliero.....Abraham Lincoln.....Patsy Cline.....Wrigley Field in Los Angeles (Yes, we had one! Look it up!).....Western Auto.....The Ford EXP.....The Three Stooges.....Pogo.....Concentration, the game show.....Heckle and Jeckle.....Jimi Hendrix.....The original Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.....Martin Luther King, Jr......Jack Paar.....Lenny Bruce.....Richie Valens.....Jean Harlow.....Lou Gehrig.....Orange Crush (I can't find it anywhere!).....The Triumph TR3.....Colorful and friendly gas stations.....The Doors.....Coast FM & Fine Arts Magazine.....Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.....Humphrey Bogart.....John F. Kennedy, Jr......Dinah Washington.....Rebecca Schaeffer.....Sid Gillman.....American International Pictures.....Princess Diana.....Seals Stadium, San Francisco.....Malcolm X.....The original MGM Studios in Culver City.....The Hal Roach Studios, also in Culver City (The Lot O' Fun, as they called it).....Jackie Robinson.....The Main Street Electrical Parade at Disneyland.....Drive-in Theatres.....Laurel & Hardy.....NET, the forerunner of PBS.....First Interstate Bank (Thanks an F'n lot, Warren Buffett!).....The OSS, forerunner of the CIA.....James Dean.....Anwar Sadat.....Vault Disney on the Disney Channel.....Elvis Presley.....Ernie Kovacs.....Riverside International Raceway.....Irving Thalberg (The man who made MGM the great studio it once was, died at 36 in '37).....Eddie Cochran.....Bill Graham, greatest concert promoter, ever.....Ontario Motor Speedway.....Thrifty Drug Stores.....The Polo Grounds in NYC.....Bobby Darin.....The Challenger & Columbia crews.....PickFair, the estate of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (Thanks an F'n lot, Pia Zadora! You're really a great star in your own right, aren't you?).....The Houston Astros "Rainbow" uniforms.....George Allen.....And this blog!

That's all you get. Til next blog, Byeee! As Always, Anne Alogy

Comments (Page 1)

web_poet

on Jul 31, 2004

May I add to the list.... neil diamond.... bo derek, bob dylan, pink floyd, gandhi, hitler, napoleon,

......chaplin etc?

Anne Alogy

on Jul 31, 2004

Heads Up, Web,

You could add them to the list all right, but not mine!

Diamond, Dylan & Pink Floyd are still very much around, Bo Derek kind of earned her movie oblivion (anyone remember Bo-Bolero?), From what little I know about Ghandi, I don't think he would have wanted to be martyred, Napoleon lived a long, if questionable life, but c'mon, Hitler? Quite possibly THE WORST, MOST ROTTEN human being who ever lived? GIMME A FREAKIN' BREAK! The only way we were denied more of Hitler was him explaining himself at the Nuremberg Trials. He owed the world that explanation, but considering his own cowardly way out of WW2, that was apparently too much to ask!

You may have a case for Charles Chaplin. --As Always, Anne

KellyW0498

on Jul 31, 2004

I loved those rainbow uniforms!

I would like to add to my list John Ritter. I don't know why it affected me so much when he died but it did. I guess he was way to young to go.

Anne Alogy

on Jul 31, 2004

Heads Up And Touche'!, Kelly,

Those were among the best uniforms, EVER in baseball history. I'm sorry I never got to see a game in the Astrodome. I would have loved that. I always rooted for the Astros at Dodger Stadium.

Your point on John Ritter is very well taken. He left us much too soon.

Thanks for your time. As Always, Anne

Gideon MacLeish

on Jul 31, 2004

I will add to the list Satchel Paige and Shoeless Joe (I still think he was wronged, and have taken my family on the requisite pilgrimage to Dyersville, Iowa, which has kind of become Shoeless' own hall of fame).

psychx

on Jul 31, 2004

I have to say that I agree with your list but would like to suggest the great Roberto Clemente who won 4 batting crowns with the Pirates and hit .414 in the 71 World series. He died on a plane crash while flying relief supplies to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.

Anne Alogy

on Jul 31, 2004

Heads Up, Gideon,

Two excellent examples of who I should of included! The only reason Satchel Paige didn't pitch in the majors earlier than he did was because Judge Landis was Commissioner. Some say that Judge Landis saved baseball. Phooey. I think he held up progress. I've always felt that the Judge, Cap Anson, and Charles Comiskey, one of baseball's biggest scoundrels ever, should be removed from the Hall of Fame. All three played major roles in the initial segregation of baseball. Pre-Twentieth Century baseball was integrated with no problems, until Anson and Comiskey came along. Ty Cobb was another scar on baseball. I find it so appropriate that he has no number to retire.

I couldn't agree with you more regarding Shoeless Joe! Again, we have both Landis and Comiskey to thank. I hope to someday make that same pilgrimage to Dyersville. I'm willing to go the distance.

Charles Comiskey, Arthur Allyn, Jerry Reinsdorf--the White Sox have sure had a long history of rotten owners, haven't they? How can anybody be a Pale Hose fan? As far as I'm concerned, Chicago belongs to the Cubs. Bill Veeck was a notable exception and a true blessing to the game.

Thanks for reading and replying, Gideon. As Always, Anne

Anne Alogy

on Jul 31, 2004

Heads Up, Psy,

The only reason I didn't mention Roberto Clemente was because I didn't think of him. You are correct, sir. He left us far too early. I would have loved to have seen him play.

Thanks for setting me straight. As Always, Anne

kingbee

on Aug 01, 2004

some great stuff there, anne (as usual) got room for 3 more? sam cooke...the great white steamer (to avalon and back)...mckinley morganfield (aka muddy waters)

Anne Alogy

on Aug 01, 2004

Heads Up, Kingbee,

Your three mentions are deserving of consideration for my list, or anybody else's list. Sam Cooke, like so many others I mentioned, died needlessly and far too soon. The Great White Steamship to Catalina is now grounded in Ensenada, and efforts are under way to raise financing to dislodge it and make a museum out of it in San Pedro. I confess I don't know much about Mr. Waters, but I do know that he is a legend in R&B circles.

I thought of so many I could have mentioned on the list after I wrote it. Nat King Cole, Jimmy Reed, Frankie Lymon, Jim Brown (retired from football much too soon), Glenn Miller, and on and on the list could go. Maybe I'll write a second list soon.

King, you humble me with your feedback. Thank you for your time. As Always, Anne

thatoneguyinslc

on Aug 17, 2004

First Interstate Bank is still around...Just in Wyomming and Idaho. Damn Wells Fargo!

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 17, 2004

I couldn't agree with you more regarding Shoeless Joe! Again, we have both Landis and Comiskey to thank.

Personally, I am a conspiracy theorist, and believe Landis was the tool of an organized crime conspiracy against the sox. I think the entire team was set up, and this is why so much misinformation has been fed to us over the years.

The excellent movie "Eight Men Out" goes a long way to show what's wrong with Comiskey. He cheated many of the players out of rightly earned bonuses, making the appeal of easy money very tempting. I straddle the fence regarding the rest of the Chicago Eight, but Shoeless has (wrongfully) been denied simply by the fact he didn't rat out the teammates.

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 17, 2004

some great stuff there, anne (as usual) got room for 3 more? sam cooke...the great white steamer (to avalon and back)...mckinley morganfield (aka muddy waters)

Also Woody Guthrie, who I believed was robbed his rightful place as this nation's poet laureate by the ugly stain that was McCarthyism.

Anne Alogy

on Aug 17, 2004

*Gideon, excellent points in both of your replies! Eight Men Out does more to explain that awful era of baseball more than any history book or Spink publication could ever hope to do. Judge Landis & Charles Comiskey were the worst things to ever happen to baseball. And they're both in the Hall of Fame! Sickening. But, the game seemed full of scoundrels in those days.

Another scoundrel, Joe McCarthy, was the Judge Landis of politics. Some people feel that Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" should be our national anthem. A great film was made about the McCarthyism contanimation, Tail Gunner Joe, starring Peter Boyle as McCarthy. Would you believe that bastard Roy Cohn actually sued to try to prevent the film from being made?!! Mind boggling. I hope you get a chance to see this riveting film if you haven't caught it yet. It's worth anybody's time.

Thank you, Gideon, As Always, Anne

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 17, 2004

Another scoundrel, Joe McCarthy, was the Judge Landis of politics. Some people feel that Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" should be our national anthem.

As I grew up in Oklahoma, I still feel Guthrie's "Oklahoma Hills" is a better state song than "Oklahoma!".

As for "This Land is Your Land", I don't think it would have made it because of the following verses:

"As I was walking
I saw a sign there
That on the one side
Said "No trespassing"
But on the other side
It didn't say nothing
That side was made for you and me

In the square of the city
By the shadow of the steeple
By the relief office
I saw my people
As they stood there hungry
I stood there wondering
Was this land made for you and me?"

Those less than flattering verses, which would have been casualties of the McCarthy era if not for the diligent work of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, would have caused it to get nixed anyway, sadly.

As a sidenote: when you mention Cohn and McCarthy, did you ever see my blog abut technically being the stepson of Harvey Matusow for about a year and a half? While I detest Harvey (who went by "Job" in his later years, because he found it hard to make it in the entertainment industry because of what he had done under the name "Harvey"), he was an interesting historical figure, and I'm fascinated to have had that connection with history, even history as dark as that.

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