Hmmm, I went to the Wikipedia article on Sambo's and it's interesting reading. As I suspected, the founder was named Sam, but then ... well, check it out on Wikipedia.
-----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review &c They had Sambos here in the bay area until the mid-late '90s. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 3/31/2019 1:26 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > We had Sambos restaurants in Oregon when I grew up. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 31, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Have they seen the original animated version? It has been kind of >> buried because the depiction of the roustabouts and the jive-talking >> crows are considered racist. On the other hand I always thought the >> lesson of the movie was not to discriminate against a person (or >> elephant) because of how they look, and that the roustabouts and crows were depicted favorably vs. >> the greedy circus owners. If you can get past the controversy, it is >> one of the Disney classics. As a kid I loved the sequence where the >> train goes through the rain and then the elephants and roustabouts >> set up the circus in the next town. I guess maybe people would also >> object to the grandkids seeing Dumbo get drunk. But who can forget "pink elephants on parade"? >> >> The reviews I have seen on the Tim Burton version have been negative, >> style over substance, and with no heart. >> >> As far as the controversy, at least not as bad as Song of the South, >> which I don't believe has ever been released for home video. Not >> really a classic of animation like Dumbo though. It does seem a >> shame that anything derived from the Uncle Remus stories are banished >> now. Br'er Rabbit and his friends came from African folk tales, and >> I have always thought the story about the tar baby said a lot about human nature, although it sounds quite offensive. >> Sometimes a tar baby is just a baby made out of tar. >> >> Cleaning out a bunch of books and taking them to an annual charity >> book sale, I came across a copy of Little Black Sambo. That one did >> not go to the book sale, they probably would have burned it. But >> sometimes, watching the U.S. Congress or the U.K. Parliament, I expect them to turn into butter. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown >> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 9:36 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review &c >> >> My grandkids hate my keyboard... security device I guess. >> >> Saw Dumbo with them yesterday. >> They seemed to like it, I thought it was pretty poor. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
