The Sambos I knew as a kid became a strip club called Sinbad's...
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 7:46 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess my memory of the last time I went there is a bit fuzzy.
> Interestingly, the place in Sunnyvale that used to be Sambo's is still a
> restaurant called Hobee's. Same basic architecture, so I still think of
> it as Sambo's I guess.
>
>
> bp
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> On 3/31/2019 5:28 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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> > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
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> >
> > They had Sambos here in the bay area until the mid-late '90s.
> >
> >
> > bp
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> >
> > 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 <af...@kwisp.com> 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.
> >>>
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> >>> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
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> >>> 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.
> >>>
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