And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 16, 2022
American Graffiti (1973) - Music Video - Johnny B. Goode
Movie was a success because it was true to life. Could have followed my friends and I around in our small hometown in Tennessee and filmed the same movie in the mid to late 60s. It's like a biography of our life. Bubbarust
yep, the small town or 900 I grew up in, in southern Appalachia was the same, except I was born in 65, so in 1980 the cars were late 60s early 70s worn out rusty gas guzzling muscle, Tornos, GTOs, Mustangs , Chevelles, Trans Ams, Super Bees, Dodge Darts and Swingers, or moms 74 Grand Torino station Wagon, or Moms 76 Gremlin or 69 Beetle, or dads 74 Caprice Convertible or whatever wheels you could borrow, etc and the oddball with a Peugeot 505 diesel, none of which cost more than $1,500 and the nearest traffic light was 27 miles away. cruising around was drive around the courthouse square, go south 3/4 of a mile and corcle through the Mister Bees convince store/gameroom (they had a couple of video arcade games and a pool table) and back around the square and west to circle around the Tastee Freeze. and if you didnt have much money for gas, you park on the square and wait for your friends to pull in.
Thank you. Cruised the Bob's Big Boy on Van Nuys Blvd in the SF Valley. Listened to Wolfman Jack every chance I got. As Fred Astaire sang: "...you can't take that away from me."
That was the year I came to 'mericuh ... at the peak of empire, Viet Nam notwithstanding. The atmospher of optimism and confidence showed in everything including the music. Been here ever since, if a one-year US Army tour in Korea and six months US Army deployment for BushDaddy's war are counted.
The cop Holstein was played by Jim Bohan, a dear friend of my DW's, whose obit (memoryholed?) was written by fellow political activist L. Neil Smith. RIP, Blue.
I watch this flick every year about this time. Harrison Ford's cinema career was just in ascendence with his bit part as Bobby.
ReplyDeleteAn unintended masterpiece; things just worked. There are some outstanding portrayals in the sequel - the Vietnam scenes are not to be missed.
DeleteFilmed in Petaluma, Calif
ReplyDeleteMovie was a success because it was true to life. Could have followed
Deletemy friends and I around in our small hometown in Tennessee and filmed
the same movie in the mid to late 60s. It's like a biography of our
life.
Bubbarust
yep, the small town or 900 I grew up in, in southern Appalachia was the same, except I was born in 65, so in 1980 the cars were late 60s early 70s worn out rusty gas guzzling muscle, Tornos, GTOs, Mustangs , Chevelles, Trans Ams, Super Bees, Dodge Darts and Swingers, or moms 74 Grand Torino station Wagon, or Moms 76 Gremlin or 69 Beetle, or dads 74 Caprice Convertible or whatever wheels you could borrow, etc and the oddball with a Peugeot 505 diesel, none of which cost more than $1,500
Deleteand the nearest traffic light was 27 miles away. cruising around was drive around the courthouse square, go south 3/4 of a mile and corcle through the Mister Bees convince store/gameroom (they had a couple of video arcade games and a pool table) and back around the square and west to circle around the Tastee Freeze. and if you didnt have much money for gas, you park on the square and wait for your friends to pull in.
Thank you. Cruised the Bob's Big Boy on Van Nuys Blvd in the SF Valley. Listened to Wolfman Jack every chance I got. As Fred Astaire sang: "...you can't take that away from me."
ReplyDeleteCruisin' with Chuck Berry. Boomer nostalgia.
ReplyDeleteThat was the year I came to 'mericuh ... at the peak of empire, Viet Nam notwithstanding. The atmospher of optimism and confidence showed in everything including the music. Been here ever since, if a one-year US Army tour in Korea and six months US Army deployment for BushDaddy's war are counted.
ReplyDeleteThe cop Holstein was played by Jim Bohan, a dear friend of my DW's, whose obit (memoryholed?) was written by fellow political activist L. Neil Smith. RIP, Blue.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091971/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t13