Vintage shots from days gone by!

[jimi'shemi291]

Carsten, my close second on Conway was his superlative "It's Only Make Believe." What a voice, what a great song! These were DEFINITELY two "soundtrack songs" of the trad hotrod era. I'll bet they rattled a million auto radio speakers.

[Church Key]

Originally Posted by jimi'shemi291

Put on Yer Thinking Cap! Time to Test
Your Knowledge of Irrelevant Nostalgia!



Dawn Wells looking just plain cute as Mary Ann Summers
on "Gilligan's Island," thanks to DazzleDent. Guess WHO
this former Miss Nevada beat out for the Mary Ann part!

Rachel Welch

[jimi'shemi291]

Originally Posted by [B

Chrisbcritter[/B];7897028]IIRC Jayne Mansfield but she turned it down. Her career had slipped by then but she was probably still too big (yeah, yeah, OK, very funny) a name for an ensemble cast anyway.

Originally Posted by [B

John Brown[/B];7897339]That's cause I purposely blanked that part out of the IMDB quote about Dawn Wells. Didn't think it was proper to make it too easy when some were still scratching their collective heads on the question.

THANKS everybody who got into the "Gilligan" trivia! Yeah, since Tina Louise groused about not being placed central in the cast, Jayne surely wouldn't have been at home. It really was an ensemble, no one BIG star.

As for "Willy" Gilligan, the apparent history indicates that the Skipper only called him by his first name in the unaired PILOT which was used to sell the show. This has been unearthed in the Turner/UA vault and, apparently, can be accessed in some way, shape or form today. Myself, I thought the "Maynard Gilligan Krebbs" crack was a hoot! Amazing how much attention Dawn's tush got! LOL. You HAMB hounds, you! Jerry VanDyke gets the George Jessel Award for guessing the Gilligan series was a no-go; "My Mother, the Car" only lasted one season. Some times, I think people should just flip a coin on decisions, ya know? Instead of Bob Denver and Alan Hale clowning, we'd be watching reruns of Jerry and Alan as Gilligan and the Skipper, eh?

John, your background on Dawn Wells and the producer being the only ones to really make out financially in the long run was VERY illuminating, and I for one really appreciate history like that! THANKS! Special thanks to those who got into the spirit of the thing by taxing their OWN memories, before resorting to good old Google! "Jeopardy" wouldn't be the same if contestants had a "Google It" button, would it?

Call it luck or FATE, Raquel Welch may well have had a blessing-in-disguise in being turned down for the Mary Ann part. Soon, she donned a rabbit-skin bikini and played a cavegirl, on her springboard to superstardom. No doubt, she'd have been noticed on "Gilligan," but a door to superstardom? I doubt it.





Ah, the price of stardom! Raquel was pursued by all manner
of prehistoric fauna on her way to the top! Pic by SuperStock,
below by VirtualHistory.

[jimi'shemi291]

As Loana of the Shell People, Raquel made her entrance in "One Million
Years B.C." looking just as stunning as did Ursula Andress emerging from
the surf in "Thunderball." I refer to two of the biggest hits of '66 and '65,
respectively. "B.C." was a surprise blockbuster for Hammer Studios and
for distributor 20th Century Fox and elevated Welch to movie-queen status
overnight. Above photo thanks to CryptoMundo.


Photo thanks to FanPix.



Photo thanks to FineArtAmerica. For my money, the three most beautiful females of the '60s
were Andress, Ann-Margret and Welch.

[Rudebaker]

You're right, I'm wrong.

Originally Posted by hoarder1

Not one to argue, especially since I wasn't alive when the last of his plates (1955 in his hand) was made, but this is a run of normal passenger plates, 1 for each year from 1912 to 1955 with the same number. I know they aren't dealer plates because in almost all of the years shown, Illinois had the word DEALER on their dealer plates. As has been suggested a couple of posts up, this man would have paid early and requested to maintain the same number. The plates are on a shorter base because they are only 4 digits, not 6 or 7 as in the higher numbers.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my pictures.

[biscaynes]

jimi, ursula andress emerged from the surf in 'dr no'

thunderball had claudine auger on the beach with 007
1st runner up in miss world 1958

[jimi'shemi291]

OOPS! Thanks for the catch, Biscaynes! It was Claudine Auger in "Thunderball," isn't that correct?

But, I'll still with my three picks for most beautiful, dyanmic female stars of the '60s. Love to hear any other picks. ALSO, for the 1950s! (Three only, per decade, just to keep it simple.)

[jimi'shemi291]

Photoplay, August 1961




Rising U.S. stars Tesday Weld and Anthony Perkins
on the British movie 'zine Picturegoer, April 9, 1960.

TV/Radio Mirror, November 1959. With Elvis
off in the army, R&R fans could satisfy their
craving with the likes of red-hot Ricky Nelson,
Fabian, Frankie Avalon and a host of other
teen idol hunks.

[jimi'shemi291]

"The Egg and I" was, in a number of respects, a surprise hit movie of 1947. Maybe, in part, it helped fill the public's need for light-heartedness pursuant to a pretty awful war and time of hard work and "making do." The cashbox comedy put Universal Studios -- whose successful string of moneymaking horror flicks had run dry -- back on sound footing and proved Universal could compete in other genres. The presence of proven stars Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray didn't hurt a whit, and the surprise Oscar nomination of veteran actress Marjorie Main as "Ma" Kettle launched an entire series of Ma & Pa Kettle flicks in the early '50s and cemented Universal's salvation.

Viewed in retrospect, the movies are quaint and fun. Viewed through the present-day revisionist glasses of political correctness, surely, they're full of potentially offensive stereotypes of ag-based American poor and native Americans. Hey, but I'm not into PC, so screw that. Taken in the context of their time, "The Egg and I" and the subsequent "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies were good, clean escapist fun.

[jimi'shemi291]

These comical original NSS promo stills for Ma & Pa Kettle flicks are actually available on eBay, reasonably priced. Most vendors offer copies nowadays, so good collector stuff has gotten tougher to find.

[SAM123]

Raquel was a product of San Diego .... she told me that on our first date! (tongue-in-cheek)

[Dusty-NZ]

Originally Posted by swi66

I just love it how you are able to slip in so many pics of the humble Corvair

I had a '64 Spyder coupe and a '65 Monza4dr H/T, both interesting and immensely frustrating cars, long may they rust

Thanks for sharing.

[Brizo]

Dusty-nz! Frustrating How? Search to the "Corvair Center" forum and tell your Corvair story.

[31Dodger]

Originally Posted by SAM123

Raquel was a product of San Diego .... she told me that on our first date! (tongue-in-cheek)

My mother went to high school with her at LaJolla High school.

[Johnny Gee]

Ann Miller, what a dancer. Someone else come to mind with great legs?

[Johnny Gee]

[swi66]

Slip in a Corvair now and then?
What do you mean?

[swi66]

I like this one.
Car freshly carved????

[swi66]

Beech Bend Park, Bowling Green KY

Plattsburgh, NY

Spanish Fork UT

[swi66]

Thatcher Park, Albany NY








Jackson WY

Socorro NM