Chris Marrou

@lippyent "Ten-four! Ten-four!"

Can you name this TV Series 📺 from just this shot? Hmm 🤔 ?¿

@DaveDuricy If you had one of those with the flathead V-8, your life was just about perfect.

She: “Do you want a ball room?” He: “Nah, I carry mine with me.” 1950 Mercury.

@ronsterd89 Maytag washer. Belonged to the in-laws before they died and that was in 2003 and 2008.

What is the oldest household appliance you still use regularly?

@Joe_A_Blevins Because they were Commies, Joe.

Half of these people were blacklisted in the 1950s. #svengoolie

@Arkypatriot I’ve stayed there several times. In the 80s I saw Bob Hope walking around the building for exercise. And Shelley Long popped out of an elevator and ran into me. Nothing weird; my wife was standing right there.

When I was younger and visiting my father in Chicago he would take me to the Drake Hotel. My stepmother's sister and her husband and were the managers. I remember the hotel had ladies working in the restroom who handed you a real towel after you washed your hands. There was a tray for tips. They kept the powder room spotless, offered perfume, mints, combs, hairspray, and somehow made even a restroom feel elegant. That was back when “full service” meant full service. Have you ever been in a place like that...do you remember them?

@CelluloidEchoes She made Lana Turner and Betty Grable look like kitchen maids.

The final musical number in Cover Girl (1944) is pure golden-age spectacle. Rita Hayworth descends a sweeping, sky-high ramp in a shimmering gold gown, stepping straight into a dazzling dreamscape. Surrounded by lines of sharply dressed dancers, she moves with her unique glamour as clouds drift and the whole scene feels almost otherworldly. When you see glitter raining down at the end, you know it’s a moment of cinematic magic that captures everything Hollywood musicals did best! #RitaHayworth #CoverGirl #HollywoodMusical

@Bellagiotime 1960 Pontiac. My gay choir teacher had one in all white, seats and everything. Of course back then he just hadn’t met the right girl yet…

Don’t know what it is. But I like it.

I may have solved my mystery. I was born in 1947 and my father was a small-town International Harvester dealer who sold Dodges and DeSotos alongside them. I remember a business coupe he brought home that I crawled around in the back of. If the last one was from 1948 it may have been a trade-in he drove for a few days, hence my memory.

@CMarrou A club coupe is the closest thing to a business coupe that DeSoto offered for 1950. Unlike a business coupe, the club coupe provided a backseat, nicely appointed for passengers.

The wheel covers are wrong, but it isn’t often that you see a LWB DeSoto.

@1Nicdar Past participles. Thanks, public schools!

Hmmm? 🧐

@DaveDuricy I must have been thinking of the Dodge unless I just completely spaced out.

I was there covering the story not long after the president was targeted at the Washington Hilton. Not Donald Trump last night. It was Ronald Reagan who was shot there March thirtieth of 1981. Same hotel. Reagan had given a lunchtime speech to a labor group and was leaving the building when he was shot; luckily, no bullets came close to Donald Trump this time. Reagan actually technically died at one point, then recovered, but the parallels and differences in the two situations may help spread some enlightenment. One is the distance. Although the shooting occurred while hundreds of news people were nearby, police later forced reporters covering the shooting to stand at least a block from the scene; in 1981, I was able to observe the blood left on the concrete by victims of the shooting from a few feet away. Live shots were set up less than a half a block away. In the past 45 years, law enforcement has greatly expanded the perimeter for reporters, and its expansion hasn’t seemed to make arrests or gathering evidence any easier. Mostly I just see big government trying to hide what goes on. The worst: the Waco fire in 1993, where we were kept well over a mile from the Branch Davidian compound and never allowed to get video or in-person interviews during the 51-day siege. If the president had been a Republican instead of media darling Bill Clinton, it literally would have become a Supreme Court case on freedom of the press. Another concern is the willingness of liberals to say absolutely evil things about a sitting president of the United States, as if somehow there is something qualitatively different about Donald Trump compared to other presidents. Sadly, there is. Trump is the first president not to be part of the Uniparty since Reagan himself in the 1980s. He actually wants to change things before the entire country becomes a bankrupt no-rights zone. The pressure is huge to prevent that, hence the language. Many in the Deep State power structure are hoping some poor schmuck worked up by their inflammatory statements will attack Trump, get lucky with their gunfire and solve their problem for them. Then they can go back to filling the country with Third Worlders and filling their pockets with rapidly-depreciating cash. When Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 there was no alternative media and no Internet. Nobody but government officials actually investigated the case. The story that John Hinckley shot Reagan to impress actress Jodie Foster was accepted. What few people mentioned was that, in order to get a good angle on Reagan, Hinckley had to stand in an area reserved for the media and await him. How long was he standing there? Why did no one challenge him? In an area meant for news types he had neither camera nor microphone. He didn’t stand out? He didn’t seem nervous? Nobody from the D.C. media knew who he was, yet no one objected? A real conspiracy theorist would look at the Reagan shooting and note that the man who wanted to change so much had been president for just 69 days before being shot; none of his proposals for change had been passed. Another interesting fact: the man who would have replaced him was the former chief off the CIA, a man Reagan hadn’t wanted as his running mate and accepted under protest. Even better, George H.W. Bush was conveniently in the air over Texas at the moment Reagan was shot, safe from suspicion. Nothing to see here. The current suspect is a schoolteacher from Southern California. The first explanation for his motives in the attack may be correct, but investigators shouldn’t give up there and neither should the public. Frankly, I’m a little surprised he’s still alive. We’ll see if he stays that way. (Colorized photo showing locations in Reagan shooting)

@Joe_A_Blevins I had a 1970 Pontiac Bonneville convertible with the 455 engine. Not a battleship— it looked more like an aircraft carrier with the top down.

Back when people drove around in cars the size of battleships. #svengoolie

@USATRUMPMAN1 Thank you boys-a. And now the lovely Lennon sisters…

Who recognizes these young ladies?

@Old_But_Gold50s The main number for the Pennsylvania Hotel in NY until about a year ago.

Glenn Miller Story(OST) - Pennsylvania 6 5000(1954)

@FlaggHazel2 Anybody remember “the Twentieth Century “? I actually saw it on film at a theater once—but not first-run.

Is it even possible to list the top ten comedies of all time? Nah…

@Noirchick1 Great hair. Yeah, I noticed the rest, too.

Miss Newmar enthusiastically filling the frame........

@lippyent Until I was 8, gas space heaters. Red-hot ceramic you could touch if you were stupid enough.

Hmm 😒 🤔?¿

@USATRUMPMAN1 Franklin ain’t and Teddy shouldn’t be.

@ronsterd89 I remember in 1954 our little town did the and put so much fog in the air I couldn't see my brother in the same room. But he's still alive at age 87...