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Dark Shadows!
I was young enough I thought it was scary, my oldest brother was old enough he thought it was dumb. Middle brother was right in the target audience and had to run home after school to watch. (I watched some of it from behind the couch) 
So my hunt last weekend was a bit of a bust. It was the one weekend us archers had to share with lucky rifle hunters, at least in my particular favorite hunting grounds. The noise and din those guys created was enough to chase any four legged hairy thing deep into the depths of whatever places that we couldn't or didn't get to. So instead, I focused some of my efforts on mushroom hunting, another of my favorite pastimes and I actually scored quite a haul!
Some of the scenery I got to enjoy while wandering about:
Some chanterelles! I picked a good 5-6 pounds I think once somewhat cleaned and trimmed:
How about some Lobster mushrooms? These are one of my very favorites and I found so many!
Anyone here like Chicken of the Woods? These are especially pretty and picturesque, very tasty too!
Apologies for blasting you all with a load of pictures but I see it as a silver lining to an otherwise unsuccessful hunt.
So my hunt last weekend was a bit of a bust. It was the one weekend us archers had to share with lucky rifle hunters, at least in my particular favorite hunting grounds. The noise and din those guys created was enough to chase any four legged hairy thing deep into the depths of whatever places that we couldn't or didn't get to. So instead, I focused some of my efforts on mushroom hunting, another of my favorite pastimes and I actually scored quite a haul!
Some of the scenery I got to enjoy while wandering about:
Some chanterelles! I picked a good 5-6 pounds I think once somewhat cleaned and trimmed:
How about some Lobster mushrooms? These are one of my very favorites and I found so many!
Anyone here like Chicken of the Woods? These are especially pretty and picturesque, very tasty too!
Apologies for blasting you all with a load of pictures but I see it as a silver lining to an otherwise unsuccessful hunt.
Thing about Nostalgia is that you can't get enough
Wacky Races was great, and The Flintstones is iconic! How many other cartoons are referenced in Cockney Rhyming Slang?! I remember going to see 'The Man From Flintstone' as a very young kid at a local cinema. The lady in the ticket office was a neighbour of ours, and would let us in for free, but we had to go in mid show, so I would never see films from the start, and see the end before the beginning, it was very confusing! My father was such a cheap-skate 
I graduated High School in 72 and if I was aware of them back then my would be Hippie type lifestyle left my memory a little "smokey" from that time in my life.
You might have enjoyed "HR Pufnstuf" then.
Kids shows were just crazy in 1969.
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My wife and I took the Coast Starlight from LA to Emeryville, CA a few years ago. It was a wonderful trip up the coast, right along the beach most of the way. I'd like to take it all the way to Seattle one day.
Wasn't just the kid's stuff. Could this be why it was called the Psychedelic '60's?You might have enjoyed "HR Pufnstuf" then.
Kids shows were just crazy in 1969.
That would be scenic. Is that on the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad line?
I always enjoyed driving down old Highway 71 from Fayetteville to Fort Smith instead of taking I-540 (which I guess is I-49 now, isn't it?). We drove back and forth between Little Rock and NW Arkansas countless times when I was a kid, back when Highway 71 was the only road.
Now that is something I can swing. Looks like a 5-hour drive to get to Springdale from here, so maybe a 4 day weekend would do it. Just down the road from A. G. Russell's, which might make for a nice side trip.
Thanks Jerry, I've been seeing a few of them recently
I used to love that show (shown on Saturday mornings here)!
Now this brings back some memories. In '65 my mom and grand mum took us on the Empire Builder, from Chicago to Portland OR. I was 7 at the time. Looking back, our privatized passenger train system was in it's twilight years with Amtrak just over the horizon, but as kids my siblings and I didn't know, and wouldn't have cared. Most of our waking hours were spent in the observation cars. This was when a kid learned at an early age to occupy oneself with the views out the window, be it on train, plane or automobile, or go stir crazy. The multiple mountain ranges we passed through were a feast for the eyes, and imagination. What a marvelous invention the observation car is!There has been some interesting discussion about train travel in Europe in the Beverage & Blades thread, but to avoid derailing that thread (pun definitely intended
Although I'm not sure how many people are using them at this point, Amtrak does still operate some long-distance passenger trains in the US. In Arizona, there are no longer any passenger trains that run directly through Phoenix, but the Southwest Chief stops in Flagstaff, and both the Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle stop in Tucson and Maricopa (which is about 30 miles south of downtown Phoenix, and also happens to be where I live).
For a time, this decommissioned California Zephyr dome car served as the train station in Maricopa. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't great as a train station, and they've since added a small building behind it that now serves as the actual train station, but the old dome car is still there for lookin' at.
That sounds like a great trip Tom . Guess my first train trip was in 1945 and only about 80 miles long in Southeast , Indiana . Then in 1986 Nancy and I took the 125 from Doncaster , England to London . We kind of fell in love with the novelty of it and in 2005 we rode the Indian Pacific from Perth , Australia to Sidney , Australia . Would like to do the trip across Canada yet .
