[TV orNotTV] Re: 25 Years Ago today...

2009-07-29 Thread Phil Collins
Look for the last time we voted for Izzy as a joke. He was cute and all but really a whatizit? On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:33 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I was living in Los Angeles then (well, Pasadena) and I bought my first ever television set (with my own money) to watch the

[TV orNotTV] Re: 25 Years Ago today...

2009-07-29 Thread Bob in Jersey
Brian Henke: The Beatrice (whatever happened to them) ads? Wiki: They and another company that's no longer with us, W.R. Grace, were disgraced in the Riley Tannery pollution scandal in Massachusetts. Many of their former brands are now owned by ConAgra Foods. Yet there was hardly any

[TV orNotTV] Re: 25 Years Ago today...

2009-07-28 Thread Kevin M.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Brian Henkecincy43...@yahoo.com wrote:   Rafer Johnson lit the torch, and the LA Olympics were underway. Despite the Soviet Union and other Communist nations boycotting the Games, it drew huge ratings for ABC, in what turned out to be their last Summer Games

[TV orNotTV] Re: 25 Years Ago today...

2009-07-28 Thread PGage
I was living in Los Angeles then (well, Pasadena) and I bought my first ever television set (with my own money) to watch the Olympics. I recall what a panic they had put everybody in about how horrible the traffic was going to be, and in the event the traffic was better during those two weeks

[TV orNotTV] Re: 25 Years Ago today...

2009-07-28 Thread Jim Ellwanger
I saw the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics the next day, on tape-delay on Swedish television, at the tail end of a family vacation in Europe. As I recall, literally all the Swedish announcer said was the names of the countries as each delegation marched in, and he only broke out