The Over 40s Club meeting

[Gertch]

We had Creature Double Feature on Saturday night, plus the late movie; and, very often, an episode of a Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers serial. Channel 56 did all the Sciffy and Horror movies, and Channel 38 had all the old black-and-white Mysteries. Channel 56 also showed the original Outer Limits, Star Trek, Lost In Space et cetera. You can find a little of that on Cable-- TCM is good at showing stuff from the 30s and 40s-- but not enough.

Saturday afternoon Creature Double Feature with Dale Dorman. My grandmother would sit and watch it while her hair set from my mom giving a perm.

What was the guy's name on 38? I can picuture him and even hear his distinctive voice.

Edit: Dana Hersey, host of The Movie Loft.

 

[Captain Ice]

Watching B movie horror flicks hosted by Elvira on Channel 5...

 

[Yeoman Randi]

You learned how to use a Card Catalog when looking for books at the library.

Hell, when i was in elementary school there was a whole class devoted to the subject of how to use the library. The Dewey Decimal System and all that fun stuff! I don't think kids in school have a "library class" anymore...do they?

I remember those classes and how, if we still didn't understand how to properly look up books in the card catalog, the librarian would treat us like imbeciles. It entailed a stern lecture and a series of dirty looks.

YUP! And idiot that i was, i never really "got" the whole system anyway. So i was on the receiving end of a LOT of dirty looks!!

 

[KimMH]

An entire class was devoted to PENMANSHIP. All the girls had such lovely swirly curly-cue script! Mine was and remains barely legible - I use all caps when I have to write! In HS I ended up in typing class. Typing! I was terrible at that too! I shouldn't wonder at my occasional inability to effectively communicate - it's a long term trend!

I've got an old Sears manual at home - my son found it in the garage and pulled out all the ribbon - I had to laugh because of course he was all smudgy - sent him straight to the bathtub! He said it looked happy. happy! drove me nuts!

 

[Star Wolf]

We had Creature Double Feature on Saturday night, plus the late movie; and, very often, an episode of a Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers serial. Channel 56 did all the Sciffy and Horror movies, and Channel 38 had all the old black-and-white Mysteries. Channel 56 also showed the original Outer Limits, Star Trek, Lost In Space et cetera. You can find a little of that on Cable-- TCM is good at showing stuff from the 30s and 40s-- but not enough.

We had Pro Wrestling from the Olympic Auditorium followed by The Roller Derby and the LA Thunderbirds always won on the last jam of the match.

 

[Miss Chicken]

An entire class was devoted to PENMANSHIP. All the girls had such lovely swirly curly-cue script! Mine was and remains barely legible - I use all caps when I have to write! In HS I ended up in typing class. Typing! I was terrible at that too! I shouldn't wonder at my occasional inability to effectively communicate - it's a long term trend!

I've got an old Sears manual at home - my son found it in the garage and pulled out all the ribbon - I had to laugh because of course he was all smudgy - sent him straight to the bathtub! He said it looked happy. happy! drove me nuts!

We also had handwriting classes. We were taught cord cursive.

I sucked at it and usually got a D.

 

[Jan]

We also had handwriting classes. We were taught cord cursive.

I sucked at it and usually got a D.

That's what we had. Once I got past the formal penmanship classes (third grade, I think, maybe fourth) I switched to lettering (printing in all caps) the way my father did. To this day the only think I 'write' is my signature. I literally cannot write cursive anymore.

Jan

 

[sbk1234]

ANyone else in the Los Angeles area remember the Family Film Festival, every weekend, hosted by Tom Hatton?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Saturday afternoon Creature Double Feature with Dale Dorman. My grandmother would sit and watch it while her hair set from my mom giving a perm.

Channel 56 was great, especially on Saturday. Outer Limits at noon, followed by B-Movies; then more B-Movies at night, followed by Flash Gordon or something.

What was the guy's name on 38? I can picuture him and even hear his distinctive voice.

Edit: Dana Hersey, host of The Movie Loft.

Wow, I almost forgot about him. Those were almost always mainstream movies, though. On 38, you had to wait till the wee hours and then you could see Charlie Chan, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man, and various and sundry others (including one of my favorites, The Living Corpse, which finally came out on DVD!).

Watching B movie horror flicks hosted by Elvira on Channel 5...

Oddly, we never seemed to get Elvira in the Boston area; the only times I remember seeing her was down in Hartford.

We had Pro Wrestling from the Olympic Auditorium followed by The Roller Derby and the LA Thunderbirds always won on the last jam of the match.

Wrestling was on Channel 56 on Saturday, just before Outer Limits, so I always caught the last five or ten minutes. Chief Jay Strongbow!

 

[Star Wolf]

ANyone else in the Los Angeles area remember the Family Film Festival, every weekend, hosted by Tom Hatton?

Early Saturday afternoons on channel 5 I think

 

[M'Sharak]

We had Creature Double Feature on Saturday night, plus the late movie; and, very often, an episode of a Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers serial. Channel 56 did all the Sciffy and Horror movies, and Channel 38 had all the old black-and-white Mysteries. Channel 56 also showed the original Outer Limits, Star Trek, Lost In Space et cetera. You can find a little of that on Cable-- TCM is good at showing stuff from the 30s and 40s-- but not enough.

We had Pro Wrestling from the Olympic Auditorium followed by The Roller Derby and the LA Thunderbirds always won on the last jam of the match.

I remember all of that. Dick ("Whoa, Nellie!") Lane was the wrestling announcer for years and did the Roller Derby, too, I think.

ANyone else in the Los Angeles area remember the Family Film Festival, every weekend, hosted by Tom Hatton?

Yup, remember that, too.

 

[John Picard]

I lived in northern Illinois and we were able to pick up all of the network affiliates out of Madison, thereby occasionally doubling our television channel selection (ABC, CBS, NBC). IIRC, WMTV, Madison Channel 15 had the old school horror movies on every Friday night starting around 11pm. The show was locally hosted with a guy who dressed in vampire garb, white face, etc. I could never stay awake and would fall asleep either right before or 25 minutes into Frankenstein, Dracula, etc. I'd get really upset because I'd wake up around 3am in a dark living room realizing I missed the movie!

 

[Star Wolf]

I lived in northern Illinois and we were able to pick up all of the network affiliates out of Madison, thereby occasionally doubling our television channel selection (ABC, CBS, NBC). IIRC, WMTV, Madison Channel 15 had the old school horror movies on every Friday night starting around 11pm. The show was locally hosted with a guy who dressed in vampire garb, white face, etc. I could never stay awake and would fall asleep either right before or 25 minutes into Frankenstein, Dracula, etc. I'd get really upset because I'd wake up around 3am in a dark living room realizing I missed the movie!

In LA the only thing on UHF was PBS until Wally George and Gene Scott turned up in the 80s

 

[Captain Ice]

Watching B movie horror flicks hosted by Elvira on Channel 5...

Oddly, we never seemed to get Elvira in the Boston area; the only times I remember seeing her was down in Hartford.

This was before she went national though. 5 was the only station running her for what seemed like a long time. I think they finally started syndicating about 84 or so

 

[Star Wolf]

Watching B movie horror flicks hosted by Elvira on Channel 5...

Oddly, we never seemed to get Elvira in the Boston area; the only times I remember seeing her was down in Hartford.

This was before she went national though. 5 was the only station running her for what seemed like a long time. I think they finally started syndicating about 84 or so

I think it was Channel 9 not 5

 

[MANT!]

Just one thing...one thing I wish would come back...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Features#KTVU-Channel_2_.28San_Francisco.29


with all the infomercials out there turning late night TV into a movie watchers nightmare..this nation lost something great...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g37Xp6LLwk&feature=related


I miss those days..
http://www.bobwilkins.net/creaturefeatures.htm

Some good news -- this particular art form is making a comeback of sorts:

http://www.nightmaresinema.com/

DAMMIT...I don't have an affiliate nearby....

 

[Captain Ice]

Oddly, we never seemed to get Elvira in the Boston area; the only times I remember seeing her was down in Hartford.

This was before she went national though. 5 was the only station running her for what seemed like a long time. I think they finally started syndicating about 84 or so

I think it was Channel 9 not 5

I think you're right.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Watching B movie horror flicks hosted by Elvira on Channel 5...

Oddly, we never seemed to get Elvira in the Boston area; the only times I remember seeing her was down in Hartford.

This was before she went national though. 5 was the only station running her for what seemed like a long time. I think they finally started syndicating about 84 or so

That must be when I started seeing her, although it seems like it should be earlier than that....

 

[John Picard]

Sunday night was family night, no matter where one lived in the US, when everyone sat down to watch The Wonderful World of Disney. Sometimes, it was an old Disney movie broken into two parts and other times it was a a series of cartoons -- Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Chip & Dale, etc.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

^ How about family hour, period? 8 pm meant family viewing programs. No longer!

Anyone from the Nu Yawk area? Back in the 60s I'd lay in bed listening to an AM radio station (correct me if i am wrong, we only had AM then, right?). There was a DJ who did the late night program...he had this great voice and he took dedications. And he always played the same song every night when he closed the show...it's killing me trying to remember the name of the song. In fact, one of the American Idol runners-up did it and nailed it big time. A jazzy thing, very difficult to sing. Of course i can't remember the contestant's name either!!!!

Kids. This is your brain on drugs. I can't remember shit anymore.