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    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    >Tiki Soo wrote: I've seen this happen before. People don't have the insight to restore a vintage diner so they create a cartoon of what they think a diner should look like, like that Ford's Garage example shown above.

    I am not arguing with you, but unfortunately, business owners may not see the value in research for restoring. It is why I called it nostalgic. Nostalgic is the fantasy memory of the experience, or what we feel is the experience. We soften the edges, we rationalize out the reality that we find less than ideal. We add details that we think are true to the design.

     

    TikiSoo, I am with you on preservation, but most people look at our older buildings immediately as eyesores. I am not against new design, but for every Fenway Park that's venerated, there are Metropolitan Stadiums torn down to be replaced by shopping centers, so they build the Humphrey Metrodome, which is now replace by Target Field.. Minneapolis/St Paul has had 4 baseball fields (and two teams) to Boston's One.

     

    But now I am a bit off track.

     

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    h4. Shangri-La is for sale

    I don't know it's heritage but it is a lovely setting, if there is no hurricane.

     

    h5. BTW- The Great Smokey Mountains NP are our treasure.. May it always be thus. I want to visit this beautiful area one day.

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on May 14, 2012 9:48 PM

    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    h3. **** !

    I'm sorry, but when I read it, I thought it must have been an story placed by The Onion.. but it's for real.

    h5. the reason casablancalover was laughing so hard..

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    Absolutely incredible! LOL.. What that has to do with Christmas, I don't know!

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on May 13, 2012 9:56 PM

    Off Topic: Favorite Music?

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    I could imagine the bedroom of misswonderly, circa 1967, and there are posters and pictures papering the walls.

     

    I must be wired differently; I never idolized the singers. The Beatles were the first to get me to notice individual members, but the music was always first to me. I must be too goody-two shoes about it. It is sort of cool how many kept performing even into grandpa status. I wonder what Jimmie Page looks like now? Oh, he still has a certain charm..

     

    How did he start?

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0tAOIQiz-8

     

    Happy Mother's Day from here, misswonderly..

    Movies I would love to see on Mother's Day

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    Okay, so we got SO BIG, and later MRS. MINIVER, and we can't forget I REMEMBER MAMA...because TCM won't let us!

     

    I will keep this positive..

     

    What are some of your favorite atypical Mother's Day movies out there?

     

    I would like to see on Mother's Day:

     

    [TO EACH HIS OWN|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039040/]

     

    [NO MAN OF HER OWN|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041694/]

     

    As the day gets darker, so do the movies, which is actually all right by me.

    PROUTY AND MOTHERHOOD

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    Oh, I don't agree. I like the title it was given. But you've given me another idea for a thread.

     

    back to Prouty and motherhood:

     

    But when I compare the two women of Prouty's lead characters, I am much more incline to find self-actualized Charlotte Vale the winner and reigning champion for mother. And her own mother was toxic, so she had Dr Jacquith acting as the surrogate parent. Ha! He was even a benevolent god at times...

     

    It really may tie into Prouty's own actual history of her time in a sanitarium.

    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    The Edison-Ford winter estates are beautifully preserved here,

     

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    While I enjoy a cosmopolitan openness in my neighborhood, it hasn't always been that way. And to drive through the communities now, you will still see the old divisions. But that can be true with any city, North, South, East or West. Honestly though, 1958 was a difficult year for those oppose to change, due to Civil Rights efforts in the South.

     

    http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/counterblast-how-atlanta-temple-bombing-strengthened-civil-rights-cause

     

    Not that the north was immune. In the earlier years, there was a very strong anti-Semite climate in Minneapolis MN:

     

    http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/52/v52i05p166-182.pdf

    PROUTY AND MOTHERHOOD

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    TO EACH HIS OWN is a great movie, and so wonderfully in the time, as they say. It's in my Netflix queue.

     

    But Jody (Olivia de Havilland) has different issues than Stanwyck's Stella Dallas, no?

     

    Stella does her share of maternal neglect too. I think I like the way Barbara Stanwyck plays her; not someone totally likable. There is this suggestion that Steven Dallas would be a good marriage _up_ for her, and that thinking in drama loses points for me in honoring her character, yet like train wreck, I cannot look away.

     

    Then it is her near comical lack of fashion sense. This whole argument of what's appropriate in dress, let alone behavior. . . Stella is a complex person, loving her daughter, yet Stella's not a good girl herself.

    PROUTY AND MOTHERHOOD

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    I cannot think of Olive Higgins Prouty without wonder about her own mother and Olive's own instincts about motherhood.

     

    Her two best known works:

    h4. Stella Dallas

    h4. Now, Voyager

     

    Two very different takes on motherhood; one on the sacrifice-even giving up the child, and the other about the manipulation that can happen in relationship between mother and child, and the toxicity it creates.

     

    I did find a bio of sorts about her:

     

    http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/olivehigginsprouty.html

     

    Funny, I read it and I understand why I never liked Sylvia Plath. I never made the connections.

    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    Lovely, it is just a lovely square. Thanks.. there is so much more to NO than the French Quarter.

     

    Meanwhile, in my Downtown, there is a new place, and it is something for those of us who feel born in the wrong time. It's sweetly nostalgic. It's *Ford's Garage.*

     

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    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    Interesting, SansFin, and a little unnerving. I think of home as being the place we are most comfortable, and I don't think I could ever be comfortable there. Is this a recently built home, or has it been around for decades? Maybe they feel they are in the wrong time!

     

    The Carter home pics are a good addition here, Jake. President Carter's home looks simple in design and comfort and it has a timeless quality, It makes sense to me he would be part of Habitat for Humanity, his own childhood setting is so traditional and practical; he remained close to his hometown and his Church, yet his benevolence is world wide.

     

    I read the other day the "Upside down" house is on the market. Not one on my list either, though when I was a small girl, I would sit upside down on the couch with my sister and we would pretend we walked on the ceiling... must have been inspired by Fred Astaire in ROYAL WEDDING.

    Off Topic: Favorite Music?

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    I have absolutely no idea...

     

    The more things change, the more . . .

     

    [The Merry Minuet|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6dsKleGpU]

     

    All us boomers can do now is remember..

     

    [When I Was Young|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw5bamVoTH8&feature=related]

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on May 9, 2012 9:00 PM

    Off Topic: Favorite Music?

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    >darkblue wrote: That song has to have been enormously difficult to memorize. It's astonishing to think he has to do it live sometimes.

    h4. Boomer Anthem

    Actually, it's been several months now, but I think I could sing along with no problem. It helps that you have lived through these events and that you have a real interest in current events and history too. It is one of my favorites.

    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    A resurrection of sorts.

     

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    It looks like they've raised it 6'-8' from the original foundation. The place hadn't looked occupied since Charley (2004). The owners aren't about when I walk by, but this house is just down the street from the Enchanted Cottage I posted. It looks like a building being saved to me.

     

    I will keep you posted.

     

     

    LATE UPDATE:

    Yes, they are constructing a new foundation for this home. I am happy to see the owners visualize the possibilities and act on what seems just a shambles of a home. They are making the impossible, possible.

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on May 9, 2012 9:02 PM

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