lenquixote66 Posted August 29, 2021 #28201 Share Posted August 29, 2021 6 minutes ago, Sea Dog said: I did not know either. Sad. Love that solo in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." Very eerie because I played the DVD for my grand kids Friday night.I told them they will never see anything like that again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George C Posted August 29, 2021 #28202 Share Posted August 29, 2021 37 minutes ago, DaniDanielle said: Charlie worked at 2 Broadway, his first job. That makes three people that worked at 2 broadway, what company did he work at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenquixote66 Posted August 29, 2021 #28203 Share Posted August 29, 2021 10 minutes ago, DaniDanielle said: My last job was in 65 Broadway. Started at Bank of America on Broad Street I worked all over Manhattan from Maiden Lane to W. 90 St.and many places in between . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryfat1 Posted August 29, 2021 #28204 Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 hours ago, jagsfan said: Our Buca Di Beppo not only closed, but the building torn down and replaced with an Ale House. Don’t know if that’s just a Florida chain, but it has a big menu and, to me, so-so food. We all miss Buca! We saw Disneyland years ago from the road and were shocked at how everything else was so close. Being Floridians, we were used to DW being its own isolated magical land. Walt Disney learned from experience and flew in small planes over orange groves snd swamps, mapped out what he wanted, and used various names to buy up the property. Nothing was going to be butted up against his new theme park. Where does CA fit in next to Disneyland? Can you walk from one to the other? Is there room for expansion? Is it sold as a separate theme park, or are there two park tickets? Call me curious! Bucca is great for feeding family on a budget. All the food here was a Thursday special that was only $50 and we ended up eating it for 2 days as the amount of pasta they give you is insane. I can't even feed a family of 4 for $50 at McDonalds for 2 meals...Two thumbs up from Cheapo Dad 👍👍 Yeah, back in the old days, Walt Disney was hiding the purchase of various swamp lands in Florida. Here’s a quick documentary of the WDW inception for those unfamiliar with the background Walt never step foot onto WDW as he died before it was completed with the California Disneyland the only Disney park he ever stepped foot on. If you research the history of EPCOT, you will see Walt was more of a Utopian on what he thought the future world would be. The current version of EPCOT is not close to what he had in mind where he actually had people living EPCOT and working instead of rides featuring Frozen. For non Disney fans, EPCOT stands for Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow or Every Person Comes Out Tired. WDW is super-sized in being over 40 square miles of land space. If you stay on property during your stay and be immersed in the Disney bubble, you can disconnect from the real world. Last time we were there was Christmas week in 2018 staying onsite and it’s a different type of vacation experience with magic bands and prepaid meal plan makes it almost like a land cruise with meals prepaid. All the pics are from food/drinks that was inclusive in the package. I ate/drank better at WDW than on a typical cruise. Whereas Disneyland is more about rides than vacation experience with many of the attractions so closely together. The entrance between Disneyland and CA Adventure (separate theme park charge similar to Hollywood Studios/EPOCT/Animal Kingdom) is a mere 200 yards apart so park hopping is super easy. Whereas in WDW’s Magic Kingdom, walking out 200 yards only gets you in line for a bus transfer to Hollywood Studios. Here is the plaza separating the 2 theme parks – to the right by the yellow topped building is Disneyland’s railroad building. If zooming in, you should be able to see the line to enter the park. Swing immediately to the left, you see the entrance to CA Adventure. That’s how far apart they are. Super easy for Park Hopping. If you are short on vacation time, Disneyland and CA Adventure will do the trick with a 2 or 3 day park hopper pass as you can slam out more rides within that period of time than you can at WDW where you spend so much time commuting back and forth between parks. But if you have multiple days on your vacation, then WDW is a much better "vacation experience”. The combination of Disneyland and CA Adventure is similar to WDW’s Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios as both combinations have Star Wars Land and all the classic Disney theme park rides (Splash/Space/Thunder Mountains) and Toy Story Mania and Tower of Terror (Rethemed in CA to be Guardian of Galaxy). CA Adventure now has the new Avengers Campus as well as rides at other parts of WDW not within the MK/HS combo like Soarin (at EPCOT), Cars Land (like Test Track at EPCOT). With Anaheim being smacked in middle of the very densely populated Orange County/Southern CA, there will not be a third park nearby. They will just likely tear down old areas and re-theme it (like current Avengers Campus used to be Bugs Land from the old movie of the same name). Someday they will likely replace the cheap carnival type rides on the west side of the park. If it wasn’t for Covid, we would be looking at another visit to WDW in December 2022 for the upcoming 50th year celebration. Looking forward to ride TRON as they transport that concept from Shanghai Disneyland. Also, EPCOT was looking old and tired back in 2018 with not much happening at the future world section so that needs some sprucing up. Bet you are sorry you asked… 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckynana Posted August 29, 2021 #28205 Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 hours ago, akcruz said: We were on the Nov 14th sailing, yes it was brutal hot but a very good cruise. The last we were on unfortunately ☹, longest since we've been on a ship. Maybe best year 🤞. I just looked up the date that we cruised...November 14th also! It was so much fun watching all of the motorcyclists getting off of the ship and lining up, before taking off to go around the Islands. We had front row seats, since our balcony was facing the Island. After talking to some of the cyclists onboard, I found out that many of them go on these cruises together. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryfat1 Posted August 29, 2021 #28206 Share Posted August 29, 2021 3 hours ago, jagsfan said: Our Buca Di Beppo not only closed, but the building torn down and replaced with an Ale House. Don’t know if that’s just a Florida chain, but it has a big menu and, to me, so-so food. We all miss Buca! We saw Disneyland years ago from the road and were shocked at how everything else was so close. Being Floridians, we were used to DW being its own isolated magical land. Walt Disney learned from experience and flew in small planes over orange groves snd swamps, mapped out what he wanted, and used various names to buy up the property. Nothing was going to be butted up against his new theme park. Where does CA fit in next to Disneyland? Can you walk from one to the other? Is there room for expansion? Is it sold as a separate theme park, or are there two park tickets? Call me curious! Another thing worth mentioning is that at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney area (now called Disney Springs at WDW but Disneyland kept the original name) is also within walking distance of 200 yards from either parks entrance (we went there on day 2 of the trip). So you can do your Disney shopping immediately after visiting the parks whereas at WDW, you have to allocate part of a day to just get to Disney Springs but once you get there, WDW version is much bigger and more things to do. So it’s another trade off between travel time/convenience and more of “wow experience”. In 2018, we left EPOCT in midafternoon to go to Sassagoula Floatworks Factory at Disney’s Port Orleans to grab a whole bunch of beignets utilizing the snack credits on the Disney Dining Plan, From there, you take the free boat ride up the river to Disney Springs. Once there, they had the Christmas Tree Trail where they decorate each Christmas tree themed after each Disney Movie or ride. Here are few sample ones. Afterwards, we ate dinner at one of the restaurants at Disney Springs that is on the Dining Plan so no extra charge for stuff you see below So one can see WDW is more of a vacation experience if you have the time for it 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Ozark_Kid Posted August 29, 2021 #28207 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Almost there, have to get the peaches first! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaniDanielle Posted August 29, 2021 #28208 Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 hours ago, George C said: That makes three people that worked at 2 broadway, what company did he work at? American Electric Power 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine3601 Posted August 29, 2021 #28209 Share Posted August 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Sea Dog said: I did not know either. Sad. Love that solo in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." I just heard that song on the radio the other day. Havent heard it ages. Love it! Sorry to hear of his passing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akcruz Posted August 29, 2021 #28210 Share Posted August 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Luckynana said: I just looked up the date that we cruised...November 14th also! It was so much fun watching all of the motorcyclists getting off of the ship and lining up, before taking off to go around the Islands. We had front row seats, since our balcony was facing the Island. After talking to some of the cyclists onboard, I found out that many of them go on these cruises together. I had forgotten about the motorcycles, yes was very neat. We did the behind the scenes tour and saw all of them down below, talked to many of them as well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenquixote66 Posted August 29, 2021 #28211 Share Posted August 29, 2021 38 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said: I just heard that song on the radio the other day. Havent heard it ages. Love it! Sorry to hear of his passing. Do you know that Iron Butterfly released 2 albums with their signature song as well as other songs ,the same on both albums but different covers ? I have both 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBE4 Posted August 29, 2021 #28212 Share Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) Ed Asner passed away at 91. Best known as Lou Grant on 2 different TV shows - "Mary Tyler Moore" and the drama "Lou Grant" - and to the younger generation as Santa Claus in "Elf", I always thought his best role was as a very bitter father in the miniseries "Rich Man, Poor Man" starring a very young Nick Nolte & Peter Strauss Edited August 29, 2021 by HBE4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckynana Posted August 29, 2021 #28213 Share Posted August 29, 2021 46 minutes ago, akcruz said: I had forgotten about the motorcycles, yes was very neat. We did the behind the scenes tour and saw all of them down below, talked to many of them as well. I wish we had known about the behind the scenes tour! Jim used to have a BSA motorcycle back in the '60's and 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davekathy Posted August 30, 2021 #28214 Share Posted August 30, 2021 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Luckynana said: I wish we had known about the behind the scenes tour! Jim used to have a BSA motorcycle back in the '60's and 70's. I won't hold that against him. 😁 Edited August 30, 2021 by davekathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine3601 Posted August 30, 2021 #28215 Share Posted August 30, 2021 1 hour ago, lenquixote66 said: Do you know that Iron Butterfly released 2 albums with their signature song as well as other songs ,the same on both albums but different covers ? I have both No I did not know this. Were they released at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted August 30, 2021 #28216 Share Posted August 30, 2021 3 hours ago, DaniDanielle said: American Electric Power Laura's dad retired from AEP 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine3601 Posted August 30, 2021 #28217 Share Posted August 30, 2021 53 minutes ago, HBE4 said: Ed Asner passed away at 91. Best known as Lou Grant on 2 different TV shows - "Mary Tyler Moore" and the drama "Lou Grant" - and to the younger generation as Santa Claus in "Elf", I always thought his best role was as a very bitter father in the miniseries "Rich Man, Poor Man" starring a very young Nick Nolte & Peter Strauss That's very sad. That makes Betty White the only surviving cast member of Mary Tyler Moore show. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davekathy Posted August 30, 2021 #28218 Share Posted August 30, 2021 1 hour ago, lenquixote66 said: Do you know that Iron Butterfly released 2 albums with their signature song as well as other songs ,the same on both albums but different covers ? I have both Knowing the name of the first album, what s the name of the second album? I googled it but hit a flat note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voyager70 Posted August 30, 2021 #28219 Share Posted August 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said: That's very sad. That makes Betty White the only surviving cast member of Mary Tyler Moore show. She's the only left from Golden Girls too. I still watch the reruns! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted August 30, 2021 #28220 Share Posted August 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Sunshine3601 said: That's very sad. That makes Betty White the only surviving cast member of Mary Tyler Moore show. Betty White is awesome.🙂 A few nights ago I saw the movie "The Proposal" again for I don't know how many times. She was so funny. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted August 30, 2021 #28221 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Just checked MLB standings. Not good for the Mets. And the Rays are smoking the AL east. Must be something in the water.😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenquixote66 Posted August 30, 2021 #28222 Share Posted August 30, 2021 33 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said: No I did not know this. Were they released at the same time? Yes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenquixote66 Posted August 30, 2021 #28223 Share Posted August 30, 2021 24 minutes ago, davekathy said: Knowing the name of the first album, what s the name of the second album? I googled it but hit a flat note. Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly Live 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Lionesss Posted August 30, 2021 #28224 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Today started out with good intentions. Drove to Akron area to go boating with our cruise friends on their pontoon boat. The weather had different plans. By the time we got to the dock on Portage lakes. Thunder lightning. Nope. Not going to happen. So we ended up going to a lake front bar. PICKS. Adult beverages and burgers. Throw in a power failure. Had a good time. Then watched football. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare A&L_Ont Posted August 30, 2021 #28225 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Today was a busy day. Left home at 7:15 and drove 2 hours to a racetrack. I was one of a group who brought cars to an event called Drive 4 Smiles. Car owners paid a fundraising fees to take kids with health issues and their family members for paced laps on the track. We started at 10 and wrapped up at 3. A long day but so worth while. I will do it again. I brought my 2020 Shelby GT500. I might have approached 90+mph upon occasion through the day. I know some others were a bit😉 faster. All lined up before our track lap. 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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