Favorite Movie Quotes: Desperate Measures

"You want to find out where I stop and you begin? Do you, Frank?"

It Was a Cruel Joke

Tacoma Daily Ledger, July 17, 1890

Postcard - Cheyenne, Wyoming

"Sixteenth street is the main cross business street of Cheyenne as well as the route of the Lincoln Highway thru the city. Cheyenne with its miles of paved streets and its numerous large business and public buildings has all the appearances of a city of 50,000 although its population is less than half of that."

ca. 1930? The Plains Hotel, which is the centerpiece here, still exists.

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Hettie

Cilla Black Sings Bacharach

Baby, It's You

Cilla (short for Priscilla) was married to Bobby Willis for decades, making her legally Priscilla Willis I suppose. Has a nice ring to it. I wonder if Cilla and I are somehow in-laws?

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McCleary, Washington

Crazed by Spiritualism

Tacoma Daily Ledger, July 15, 1890

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Nadine's back trunk lid reveals evidence of feline investigation

Postcard - Cheyenne, Wyoming

"Cheyenne is one of the trans-continental cross roads of the Nation. One of the great stopping points for east and west trains and a junction for north and south travel."

1930s?

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Charlie goes after a mouse in the heather

The John Adams Song

John Adams was a one-term guy.

It took a long time for him to die.

He lived in a place that evokes weird imagery

A town in Massachusetts known as "Braintree."

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Dick Van Dyke Sings Bacharach

 

One Part Dog, Nine Parts Cat

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Tumwater, Washington

Gene Chandler Sings Bacharach

I Wake Up Cryin'

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Postcard - West Addison, Vermont

"D.A.R. Park, West Addison, Vermont"

1970s

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Filipino Phil's Nuclear Meltdown Chipotle Sauce

Made in Rainier, Washington

Ray Charles Sings Bacharach

I Wake Up Cryin'

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Postcard - Lake Willoughby, Vermont

"Aerial view of Lake Willoughby, which lies between two mountains and is often described as similar to a Swiss Lake. It is nearly 5 miles long, providing good water sports and fishing. It is in the town of Westmore, north of Lyndonville, Vt. on Vt. 5A."

1970s. When I was growing up here in Washington State, we never saw submarine sandwiches. When I lived in Vermont for awhile in 1979 I met my first "grinder" at Lake Willoughby and became hooked.

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Ride Big Bronco

Tumwater, Washington

Little Milton Sings Bacharach

I Wake Up Cryin'

Postcard - East Barnet, Vermont

"The Round Barn on the Moore Farm in East Barnet. Built in 1899 this was the first round barn contructed in Vermont."

1970s.

William Bell Sings Bacharach

I Wake Up Cryin'

Postcard - Burlington, Vermont

"Greetings from Burlington, Vermont"

Probably originally created in the 1940s, but I suspect this one is a reproduction, which was sent to me in 1984. I lived in Burlington in 1979 where, among other jobs, I drove a taxicab. I fell in love with Vermont and hope to return there one day to visit.

The Originals Sing Bacharach

I Wake Up Cryin'

The Sentence

"Do you have any idea how hard honest working people have to break their backs to earn the precious dollars out of which you so blindly con them?"

Clip of one of the more creative legal sentences, from Dear God.

Postcard - Vermont

"Sugaring in Vermont. Horses stand ready to pull the gathered sap back to the sugarhouse."

1970s.