Old Man's Corners

[Davey Crockett]

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[SolarWarden]

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Only trucking movie or show I really liked as a kid was BJ and the Bear and one of my all time fav Smokey and the Bandit.

Buford T. Justice: [to his son] There's no way, *no* way, that you came from *my* loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo' momma in the mouth!

 

[Davey Crockett]

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[AZ_HighCountry]

The only rambo worth watching

Definitely a powerful PTSD movie.

The second to last and final were both worthy IMO.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Can you elaborate for the less knowledgeable? What turmoil in 60s? Which racial tensions?

I meant to come back to this, didn't I? Apologies for the tardiness.

The 60s were a continuation of the Civil Rights movements from the 50s. Segregation, Jim Crow laws, and oppression of black people in general were prolific throughout the Deep South. Lynchings and the KKK were synonymous.

Alabama became the focal point when President Kennedy sent in the National Guard to enforce desegregation. Gov. George Wallace, who would later survive an assassination attempt, was a racist as they came. A lot of prominent Southern Democrats were racist. The mid-60s saw many riots including in Chicago, Detroit, and the Watts area of Los Angeles. Older friends of mine were among the troops deployed by LBJ to quell the riots in Detroit.

Dr. Martin Luther King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech shall forever be heralded as the pinnacle of the Civil Rights Movement. It is worth watching. Here is the link:

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I will stop here for now and will build on this some more later.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Fatman, what influenced your decision to attend university in the US and how long did you stay following graduation?

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

The original. The pilot episode:

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[Fatman17]

Fatman, what influenced your decision to attend university in the US and how long did you stay following graduation?

In the 70s there was a "trend" of pakistani students going to the USA. The talk of the town was "did you get your l-20"?. This document allowed you to apply for a F-1 non-immigrant student visa for 3-5 years and the Americans were dishing them out left right and center (they regretted that much later) because amongst the genuine students there were many looking for immigration to the USA for jobs not studies and the F-1 was perfect excuse for them. Anyways for me it was a spur of the moment sort of thing and I applied to many schools and got the l-20. I almost went to Oklahoma SU but decided on California and De Anza college. This college was located in the hills south of San Francisco and I liked the overall atmosphere.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

In the 70s there was a "trend" of pakistani students going to the USA. The talk of the town was "did you get your l-20"?. This document allowed you to apply for a F-1 non-immigrant student visa for 3-5 years and the Americans were dishing them out left right and center (they regretted that much later) because amongst the genuine students there were many looking for immigration to the USA for jobs not studies and the F-1 was perfect excuse for them. Anyways for me it was a spur of the moment sort of thing and I applied to many schools and got the l-20. I almost went to Oklahoma SU but decided on California and De Anza college. This college was located in the hills south of San Francisco and I liked the overall atmosphere.

I'm having a difficult time imagining you as an Okie.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

TV shows of the 60s:

- Green Acres
- Petticoat Junction - who wasn't in love with Betty Jo, Billie Jo, and Bobbie Jo?
- Gunsmoke
- The Rifleman
- The Andy Griffith Show
- Rat Patrol
- Combat!
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- The Avengers (loved Emma Peel)
- Get Smart (Agent 99 was another)
- Hee Haw -- barely qualifies; first aired 1969. Barbi Benton jumped the shark when she did Playboy.

 

[Fatman17]

TV shows of the 60s:

- Green Acres
- Petticoat Junction - who wasn't in love with Betty Jo, Billie Jo, and Bobbie Jo?
- Gunsmoke
- The Rifleman
- The Andy Griffith Show
- Rat Patrol
- Combat!
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- The Avengers (loved Emma Peel)
- Get Smart (Agent 99 was another)
- Hee Haw -- barely qualifies; first aired 1969. Barbi Benton jumped the shark when she did Playboy.

Great TV time and with the whole family

 

[Fatman17]

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I once stood in line overnight at a cinema in SF to get tickets for the opening show. The line went around the block and surprisingly people were very patient and hardly any fights. City had to haul in portable toilets otherwise things would have ended very smelly.