I retired from the local government back in June of this year after 40 years in only 2 different departments; San Bernardino County Library Administration offiices, where I did a wide variety of things over a 27 year period, and the last 13 years was spent with the local Welfare department in the warehouse where hundreds of thousands of cases are kept and 2,000 different forms are stored (after all, the welfare department needs a place to store all that paperwork before it gets sent out to everyone). Don't ever let anyone tell ya that when you switch from a "paper" office to a "computerized" office, there is less paperwork involved. That is pure BS, and everyone knows what BS stands for......Big Storytellers! Anyway, now that I am retired, I stay busy working part time as an on-call/relief driver for a company that provides transportation to train crew to and from the work site. In my position, I acquire a large van from a person going off duty and wait for a call from dispatch (which could happen at any time during a 24 hour on call period) that could send me to the yard to pick up crew to go to down town LA or anywhere in Orange County, or as far north as Bakersfield, or clear over to Yuma, AZ (an 8 hour trip), or the middle of the desert to a town called Yermo in the middle of the night. I certainly hope this has not been too long or boring for you all to read.
1 2008-11-12 18:39:37
Re: What line of work are you in? (66 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
2 2008-11-09 03:54:41
Re: Vintage T V shows (23 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I forgot to add that in 1955 we moved from the LA area to San Bernardino, so the TV reception was not too good being that far away. We had to jam a TV antennea 40 feet abouve the house to receive anything because of the mountains. I never really got cable until about 1974, when I finally got married and moved out. Then a whole new world of tv came to me, including all these new wrestling shows from all over the country!!
3 2008-11-09 03:50:36
Re: Vintage T V shows (23 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Since I lived in the LA Area at the time, and just outside of it now, I watched Beany @ Cecil, a cartoon show, Then Sheriff John, a mid afternoon show with John Rovik as the host showing cartoons. Tom Hatten Show was my Popeye fix of the 50's, with Tom drawing left handed (how could he do that!!) on a tablet mounted on an easel. Tom is now 82 years old and doing some commercial on tv. Then there was Ponderosa, Gunsmoke, Wrestling every Wednesday night from 8 to 10 PM with the indescribable Dick Lane as the tv announcer with his "Whoaaaa, Nellie!!" everytime some wrestler made a fabulous move. I thought we were so lucky to get a TV around 1952 or so. Even luckier when the TV broke down and my dad could take it apart and fix it himself!
4 2008-11-05 22:24:05
Re: We Have A New President! (52 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
We are DOOMED!
5 2008-11-05 04:59:02
Re: I think my head is too full? (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I have the problem solved. I simply tattoo the lyrics on the inside of my eyeballs, then when I need to remember, I close my eyes and look, er uh, wishful.
WHAT? You do not believe that?
Well, as Homer Simpson says, "Kiss my hairy yellow butt!"
6 2008-11-04 22:22:21
Re: Happy Birthday Sue. (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Happy birthday Sue. Never met ya, but.........how do you DOOOOO!!!!
7 2008-11-03 05:16:59
Re: crimbo is near (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Don't know what I will do after hanging my baubles on the Crimbo Tree, but I'll think of something. Ya know?
8 2008-10-30 18:13:45
Re: Your favorite vacation/holiday spot (63 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Paw - Thank ya, thank ya ver' much, yer a wunnerful audience. Keep the rubber side down, Good Buddy!
9 2008-10-30 18:10:19
Re: success at last!!!!!! (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hello neighbor! I'm just a fairly new person on this here forum, but welcome back. I'm just down the road a piece (or is that apiece?) from ya. East of Los Angeles, in San Bernardino, last town on the song "Route 66". Home of the Fast Food Empire, where the McDonald Brothers started it all. Jest wanted to meet ya and shake the pump handle. Wait, that sounds a little sexual. Shake a hand, dude, shake a hand!!
10 2008-10-30 18:02:34
Re: holloween? (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Nope! Going to my church Harvest Festival. Wifey will take charge of a booth with a game and hand out candy buy the truck load, and I will simply dress in something warm and sit on the hay bales and listen to the music, whatever it will be.
11 2008-10-29 03:41:41
Re: Your favorite vacation/holiday spot (63 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
All you worldly people.....mercy! I live in Southern California, in a community called San Bernardino. If you remember the song Get Your Kicks On Route 66, SB is the last named city in the song, but it is by no means the end of the road. I'd like to vacation by driving Route 66 on its' latest known alignment, paralelling I 40, the freeway that replaced it, from one end to the other. I have done this only in parts, and most not lately, as most was traveled when I was a teen, before 1962.
Also, California has some of the best scenery along the coast, and specifically, the northern coast, where the redwoods are. Inland is even better.
12 2008-10-29 03:28:59
Re: where is everybody from? (242 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Oh yeah, I forgot to say that I used to own a Gretsch Super 400 and a 1939 Martin D-28, the latter in absolutely perfect shape. Sold it on eBay a few years back.
13 2008-10-27 03:37:32
Re: newbie (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Welcome to the forum, Micky, although there are prolly those who still think of ME as the newbie on this site, and that I prolly do not have the authority to do so. But what the hey, ya know?
14 2008-10-26 04:06:15
Re: Things We Hate...Or at least Dislike VERY MUCH!! (252 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Drivers with LOUD thump bump rap stuff that passes for music who pull up right next to ya!! Maybe the best way to combat that is get a loud setup but put the speakers on the outside and play bagpipe music!! That would irritate the SNOT out of those people, I hope!!
15 2008-10-26 04:00:39
Re: surprise (14 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I hear it is/was your birthday.......
Thanks for the help on the name guessing (Hoyt Axton!)
16 2008-10-26 02:12:18
Re: Newbie trying to remember a name (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
HOYT AXTON!!!!!! TANK you, Russell!!! (Remember he referred to his mom as "Mama Axton") I knew you hard core CW people would come up with something!!!
17 2008-10-26 01:49:57
Re: where is everybody from? (242 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Well, fellow CW freaks (you ARE CW freaks, aren't ya?) I am in the land of fruits and nuts, sunny Southern California, just a hop, skip and a looooong jump outside of Lon Angeles. San Bernardino, the last song named in the song "Get Your Kicks On Route 66", and the home of fast food founders, McDonald Brothers, who help start the fast food EMPIRE!
18 2008-10-25 23:16:03
Re: Newbie trying to remember a name (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Wow! An unfortunate wow, I'm sorry to say, but the above mentioned were not him. As I said, he was older, a little paunchy, talked a good song, had the craggy face, and the deep drawly, whiskey voice, but not like Lefty or Merle. He did not seem to be that well known, obviously, because I cannot remember him. David Allen Coe seems to be from the same era, but this singer never served time, nor sang about Mama.
Dang! All I need is for someone to remember the scene where he was talking to Ralph and Ralph asked him about how Mama (last name) was doing, and he said, "Mama (last name) is doing alright" Same last name, or course, and if such was the case, his mama would have been aproaching 100! I did find some lists of singers on the Nashville Now show, but he wasn't on them, as if he was not mainstream.
Badeye, GSW and SouthPaw, keep coming, guys!
Boom
19 2008-10-25 03:41:26
Topic: Newbie trying to remember a name (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hi everyone, this is gonna be a rascal to figure out! I am trying to remember a C/W singer/story teller that was famous in the 80's and appeared on the Nashville Now Show back then. He was an older dude with a whiskey voice and a craggy face. When referring to his Mama, he always called her Mama (last name I forget!), at least to Ralph Emery. I can remember none of his songs (great, huh?) and only what I described above. Seems like he had a kind of unusual first name. Played an acoustic guitar.
I hope someone can come up with a name or perhaps furnish a list of storytellers of this era. This is one great impression I am giving all of you, because I am 62 years old and should know these people's names, because I am a traditional type CW fan.