FREEZE!! POLICE!!......pleeeeeeze!

Makes Daley look sane....

Marty
New Berlin, IL

Trivia Tuesday TWOFER......

Another Tuesday is upon us....
which means another GRAND PRIZE hangs in the balance.

First correct email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to name the above two gentlemen will win this week's GRAND PRIZE along with TT bragging rights for the next 7 days!!

Hints....

Mr. "One plate".... Star of the early stage/screen....usually had a drink in his hand...not fond of women, children or dogs.....was on the cover of a Beatles album...was almost the Wizard, but turned it down....fellow screen stars' 2-year-old drowned in his lily pond.....middle name is Claude.

Mr. "Two plate"......one of a couple of brothers....once lived in LaGrange, IL.....huge reader but never attended High School....hosted the Tonight Show in between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson....once used LSD.....friends with Alice Cooper and Elton John...was instrumental in the naming of one of Sir Elton's albums.....Queen (the band) are huge fans of his...middle name is Henry.

Marty
Atlanta, IL

GPS.....

Polo, IL
Marty

You know you're in Indiana when.......

Now I know what you're going to say......

"Wal*Mart Bingo" could apply to any state......
but you are GUARANTEED a win .... in Hoosierland!!

Bring this along the next time you shop at Wal*Mart.....
most of these will simply apply to your cashier and/or door greeter!

Click on the link below for some Wal*Mart Winners!
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

Marty

Only 2 months of shopping days until my birthday....

Yikes!

Marty

We have a Weiner.....

Mr. James "Streckfus" Farrell was minutes ahead and beat several by a nose with his correct guess of Truman Capote and Barbara Walters.
Your GRAND PRIZE....
adorned with a lovely Simpsons stamp....
is on its way to you!!

Mr. Truman Streckfus Capote...

• Author of the book "In Cold Blood" which was turned into the 1967 film of the same name...


• Film was nominated for 4 Academy Award nominations...but more importantly was the first commercially released film to use the word "shit". We've come a long way baby!


• A chronic alcoholic....passed away at age 59 at the home of Johnny Carson's ex Joanne.


• Rival Gore Vidal was credited with the quote that his passing "was a good career move".


• Also wrote the novella "Breakfast (sounds like Streckfus) at Tiffany's"
  

Barbara Jill Walters....

• Happy 80th B-day today....Cha...Cha....Cha!


• Dated U.S. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.....
  (have you ever seen Alan Greenspan?)


• Also dated Senator John Warner
  (an ex-Mr Elizabeth Taylor)


• Had an affair with married Senator Edward Brooke in the 70's...
  (they dont talk about that on "The View"!)


• Although she has interviewed everyone in Hollywood.....several Presidents....Shahs..and Dictators....
  her highest ever rated news program interview was with.......
  
  

Marty
Polo, IL

I'll drink to that.....

All on one take.

Marty
Jeffersonville, IN

Song of the week.....

The Avett Brothers are my pick to click.....
and their new album is coming out next Tuesday, 9/29/09.

It is produced by Rick Rubin, who also produced the last Johnny Cash albums, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Tom Petty, Neil Diamond and others.....should be interesting.
Next week will be "Avett Brothers Week"......
and the Neil Diamond player will be retired to the bottom of the Blog page with several others that you may play at your leisure.

Hopefully you will enjoy.
(This is in HD....may take a minute or two to load)

Marty
Detroit, MI

Trivia Tuesday TWOFER......

OK.....
back in the saddle with another challenging rendition of TT.
The first correct email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to name these 2 people above will be the GRAND PRIZE winner and have TT bragging rights for the next 7 days.

Hints....
He....
middle name is Streckfus (sounds like "breakfast")....can write a good scary book and a lighthearted comedy....taught himself to read/write before entering the first grade....hung out with the Rolling Stones, while writing for Rolling Stone magazine....
died young at one of Johnny Carson's ex-wife's homes....
a rival of his claimed that his death was a "good career move".

She....
middle name is NOT Streckfus....married 3 times....has dated a US Senator or two and a US Federal Reserve Chairman....was the highest paid in her field at one time....has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (who doesn't)....turns 80 this week (but looks 50)....
once hosted the highest rated news program ever broadcast on a single network......
her middle name is Jill.

Marty
Lapeer, MI

You can take the city boy out of the city.....

Escaped the city for a quick 18 hours, and ran out to Dan's new lake pad for the night....
took young Dan for the short country experience.

He learned......
-how to avoid Amish buggies while driving the backroads...
-what the word "darned" means....
-how important it is to get beers for your Uncles QUICKLY!
-how to launch a Chinese Sky Lantern and not burn down his Uncle's house.....
-how many more stars there are in Indiana than in Illinois....
-that a neighbor's cat fighting with a wild animal at midnight, when you can't see crap 10 feet past the campfire, can be a scary thing.....
-that shorts don't cut it when the nighttime lows get down to the upper 40's.....
no matter how big your fire is.

Nice place on a quiet and clear lake in Northeastern, IN.....

Uncle Dan's Big Barn of Fun!.....comes with a bird clock....an awesome air hockey table...and maybe a skunk.
Dan "squared"......feeding spiders to the bass.

Dan and I learned........ that soybeans really don't taste that great raw!?

One flat, unlucky frog......but it did taste better than a raw soybean!

Marty
Country Club Hills, IL
(Neither country clubs nor hills here....)

A belated.....CHA...CHA.....CHA.....

Look who is 39.......(for the first time!)

From this pic......

it looks as if Dan has been packin' heat from an early age.

Marty

Howe, IN

The Marshmallow Test......

I love the kid at the 2:47 mark.

Marty
(eating Smores and drinking Buds in Howe, IN)

You know you're in Indiana when.......

.....you know people,
I just can't make this stuff up.




"I just LOVE to rent guns..Ha..ha..ha..ha....ha..ha!"

Marty
Muncie, IN

On the road again.....

So to wrap up Willie Nelson week....

• He wrote "Crazy" for Patsy Cline....who at first wasn't so "crazy" about it.
• Wrote "Pretty Paper" for Roy Orbison back in the 60's.....Xmas hit.
• Wrote "Night Life" (most covered Country song of all time)
• "Night Life" also recorded by Charles Manson.
• Has dabbled in acting....
• Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream flavor "Willie Nelson's Country Peach Cobbler"
  (?? not so great....mine had a hair in it)
  
  
  
  
  
  Now if you REALLY have nothing to do for the next 18 minutes....
  click below....
  there is a payoff at the end of this.
  I heard this on NPR a few years ago and it stuck with me.

http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/CPRadio_player.php?podcast=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/xmlfeeds/185.xml&proxyloc=http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/customproxy.php

• Let this player load a minute....
• "Pause" the Neil Diamond player.....
• Fast forward (slide cursor to the right) the NPR player to the 6:50 mark and let it play.
  
  Marty
  Goodlettsville, TN
  

Smile.

What started out as a horrid week.....
ended pleasantly by the end of Saturday....all things considered.

If I learned anything this past week....
it's that life is way too short and goes by way too fast....
and I don't spend enough time with family & friends.

But what's funny is...
that the time in between visits, doesn't seem to effect the conversation....
you pick right up where you left off.
(2010 Resolution....more parties....
no good, apparent reasons needed)

More pics at link below....
http://gallery.me.com/ctmcnally#100148


Thanks to all for your kind words and emails.
Marty
Pekin, IL

THE winner was.....

The McNally Bros. (Ron & Joe).....
hopefully sharing a beer somewhere "upstairs".

____________________________
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph McNally
To: unobuckeroo@aol.com
Sent: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 12:03 pm
Subject: (no subject)

Marty,
MOM: Glen Campbell
DAD: Willie Nelson
TIM: Go soak your head

Love. DAD
TIME:12:04p.m.

___________________
Chicago Tribune's "Horry-Gorryscopes" from 9/8/09.....
Today's Birthday (09/08/09)
Travel looks good this year, with minor complications. The hardest part is having to leave somebody you love. Instead of being sad, make it a celebration. Re-establish family roots. If you can't get the whole gang together at any of your homes, pick a campground or hotel somewhere in the middle.

___________________________

Funny how life works....
at Lunchtime.........
you've got the best Dad in the world,
emailing you stupid trivia contest answers across miles of cyberspace.....
and by Dinner he is gone.
Happy Birthday!?

Way too much irony to digest right now....
--Making sure he time-stamped his email (that's the "accountant" typing there)
--Yes..... the answer was Willie Nelson....and Willie was a "back up" only after I could not find a good Patsy Cline pic....
she was also born on September 8th.
--Checking out of this world on the same date you check in.....
(Only a .27% chance of that happening...... he would tell you if he could)
--Still having that devilish spirit to topple Tim in Trivia Tuesday.... egged on by Tim's good-natured ribbing at Dad's B-Day party this past Sunday....
--Best of all..... that fact that he couldn't (and wouldn't) collect on the Grand Prize....

would make him all the happier.
Those "7 days of Trivia Tuesday bragging rights" was all he needed.

Considering we almost lost him 4 months ago....and the fact that he was able to bounce back to almost 99% of the "old Joe" in the last couple of months....was an amazing feat and one that many families do not get....
and we are all greatly appreciative.

That last conversation....

that last hug and kiss.....

that last laugh....

to that last verse of "Happy Birthday" last Sunday.......

lucky for us, we were all able to collect our grand prize!

As tough as it is to let go now......I consider all of us the "winners" because those last few months were a HUGE gift from the Man upstairs.

So unless Joe has email access "up there".....this is his swan song....but knowing Joe.....he probably had all of this laid out on a spreadsheet somewhere.

(You bet your bippy!)

As our friend Jim Farrell said so eloquently late Tuesday night in an email.....

(after seeing the "Joe Cool" pic from Tuesday's blog....)

"The world is a little less 'cool' today than it was yesterday."

Marty
Burbank, IL

I shall return.......

Trivia Tuesday.....and a GRANDE CHA...CHA..CHA!!!!!!!!!

OK.....
Here's to another week and another chance for you to knock one Mr. Tim McNally off of his TT throne.

First correct email to unobuckeroo@aol.com with the name of the above gentleman will take home this week's GRAND PRIZE and have TT bragging rights for the next 7 days!!

Hints....
One of the premiere Country songwriters of the 50's/60's.....has had his songs recorded by everyone from Snoop Dogg....to Patsy Cline ....to Roy Orbison....and even my personal favorite Charlie Manson....started guitar at age 6....wrote his first song at age 7....and was playing in a local band at age 9......was in the Air Force....studied to be a farmer....was a disc-jockey....penned one of the most covered country songs of all time.....was on Miami Vice....The Simpsons....and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman....has an Ice Cream named after him.

71 CHA-CHA-CHAs!!



Marty
Ottawa, IL

Happy Labor Day!!

Put away the white shoes....
a steak and a few BUDs.



COOL.....


COOLER......


WAY COOL.....


COOLEST!!


Ugggghhh......no wonder why your boyfriend disappeared.



Marty

You know you're in Indiana when.......

you have to call a tow truck....
.....for your tow truck's tow truck.


Marty
Indiana Toll Road
9/1/09

Building Projections.....

European version of fireworks......oooooo.....ahhhhh!

Watch this in full screen mode....
Stick with it.....you'll be glad you did.
Probably coming to an AON Building near you.....

Marty

We have Weiner(s).....

Big dilemma here this week.....
is it Phillip or Philip?
We even asked a frazzled Alex Trebek....
and his judges could not come up with a solution.....
Sooooooooo for the first time in Tuesday Trivia history....
we have TWO GRAND PRIZE winners this week!!

Tim McNally and the team of Joe/Nancy will each take home the prize(s) this week.

This was an unprecedented week considering I had more correct answers than ever....unfortunately the first in wins. Although it had nothing to do with Apple Computers.....it had EVERYTHING to do with Apple Records of which George was a founder and Phil was the A/R director.

Obviously no one was fooled by a long-haired (digitally flipped) George Harrison and Phil Spector.

I will tune up my game next week and will prevail over you all!!


Phil Spector....
the man behind the Wall of Sound (and under the wigs!)

Wrote or co-wrote several great hits from the 50's/60's....

• You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling (holds record for most US airplays)
• (and) Then He Kissed Me
• Baby I Love You
• Be My Baby
• Chapel of Love
• Da Doo Run Run
• Spanish Harlem
• River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina
• (GREAT song...not so great dancing)
  
  
• You Can Get Him, Frankenstein

(OK.....forget that last one...but not bad....it's on You Tube)

But his first # 1 hit in 1958 was for his teen group called the "Teddy Bears"....named after the Elvis song.....with Phil on guitar (minus wig)...and his fellow classmates at the time, singing.

To Know Him....Is To Love Him.

• The title comes from his Dad's gravestone inscription...
  the same Dad who shot himself when Phil was 9 years old......
  HELLO.....RED FLAG.......
  Warning Will Robinson!!!
• The female singer, Carol Connors, went on to co-write "Hey Little Cobra" for the Ripchords and "Gonna Fly Now" which you may know as the Rocky Movie Theme song...also dated Elvis......and was all over Court TV during Phil's trial.......I think he shot the wrong chick.
• Phil went to make a name for himself in producing records and worked with everyone from the Ronnettes to the Beatles to the Ramones.
• Big wig-wearer to help cover all of his scars from an almost deadly car crash in the 70's.
• I just purchased a bio about him off of Ebay...pretty wacky individual.
  "Tearing Down the Wall of Sound" written by a guy who interviewed Spector a few weeks before he shot and killed his last date.
• Currently serving 20 to life in a California State Penitentiary.
• Liked his guns.

George Harrison......
(with sister Louise)

• George was technically the first Beatle to visit the U.S.....his sister Louise is from downstate Benton, IL and welcomed George here on a visit in September 1963.
• You too can stay at Louise's house the next time you are in Benton....click below. http://www.harddaysnitebnb.com/index.htm
• Owned HandMade Films which produced several Monty Python movies.
• Proud Gardener who took an old mansion and turned Friar Park into a thing of beauty.
• Employed a staff of 10 and his two older brothers to keep up the 30+ acre garden.

• His first wife Patty Boyd....went on to marry his best friend Eric Clapton
• Second wife Olivia....tough Mexican who kept an knife-wielding assailant at bay during a 1999 attack at their home by smacking him repeatedly with a fire-poker!

Marty
Vincennes, IN

Holy.."Where's the ATM?"....Batman!

A replica Bat Cycle....but still pretty cool!

In Auburn, Indiana yesterday....where they are gearing up for the Annual Kruse Labor Day Automobile and Vehicle auction.....over 5,000 items are up for auction and every make and model is driving around town....

Bring plenty of cash if you're coming......Christmas is coming....and Mar and I would look pretty sweet on the Bat Cycle.

http://www.kruse.com/auctions/aubfall09/inventory.asp?AUC_CODE=aubfall09

Dad....Now that you just got your license renewed...they even have a '62 Rambler if your interested..it comes with the "optional" wipers feature!
Or my fav....1939 Lincoln Zephyr and matching 1992 Harley Davidson Sportster.

Marty
Georgetown, IN

We used to live on a runway......

Planes under construction at Ashburn Field in 1917. (8217 S. Cicero Ave)

If you look at this map.....we lived at 80th/Kolin which looks like it was right in the middle of a runway at one time....

Overhead view of the Aero Club from the early 20's....Cicero Ave on the far left....79th Street on the top.....83rd Street just above the bottom of the photo.

Other early airports in the Chicago area......

Cicero Flying Field was a huge one at the time.

http://historicaerials.com/
Historic Aerials is now my New Favorite Website.....

It will take you a bit to get used to the tools at the top of the map screen...

and you should also turn "on" the road markings to the left of the map.
You can view an area of land through the decades to view the changes in topography.
This led me to the old neighborhood and unanswered questions about......

--Why there was an airport at 83rd and Cicero...??

--Why there was a large housing subdivision built on the land where Rainey/Hancock Park is now...with no other houses around at all in the early 50's except for these??

Check out 79th/Kostner in the 1951 map version.

Read below....now I am wondering what was REALLY under that sled hill?


Rainey Park

History
The establishment of Ashburn Flying Field at 83rd and Cicero Avenue, a World War I pilot training facility and Chicago's first airport, spurred development in Chicago's Ashburn community. By the late 1920s, area residents needed a park to serve their fledgling community. On October 19, 1929, the South Park Commission agreed to purchase a substantial property in Ashburn. Unfortunately, the stock market crashed just ten days later, and the resulting financial hardships prevented the South Park Commission from improving the site.

In 1934, the city's 22 independent park boards were consolidated into the Chicago Park District, and the newly-formed agency took control of the Ashburn property. Park district designers soon developed a preliminary plan for the site, already called Rainey Park for Edward J. Rainey (1905-1911), an influential South Park Commissioner who advocated neighborhood park creation. Though the initial Rainey Park plans were not executed, the property did serve as a temporary nursery.

In 1942, when the U.S. Defense Department condemned the northern half of the park for a Chrysler Corporation airplane factory, the park district purchased property to the south.
In late 1945, the Chicago Housing Authority leased Rainey Park to provide temporary housing for returning World War II veterans. The lease ended in December, 1956, at which time the park district sold a portion of its land to the Chicago Board of Education for the new Hancock Elementary School.

Improvements finally began at Rainey Park in 1959. Park facilities soon included a baseball diamond, tennis and horseshoe courts, and playground equipment. From the beginning, the park and the adjacent school have been jointly operated by the park district and the Board of Education. Though Hancock School closed for several years in the 1980s, the park district continued to use the building for programs, and the school has since reopened.
The school gymnasium doubles as a fieldhouse for Rainey Park.

Chicago's first airport, Ashburn Flying Field, opened in 1916, spurring Chicago's drive to be an aviation center. During World War I it became a training camp for the Signal Corps, and Ashburn's population rose to 1,363. Afterward it had U.S. Post Office airmail contracts but, being situated on marshy prairie land, quickly lost them due to the field's remoteness and the prohibitive drainage costs.

In 1927 Municipal Airport (now Midway) opened, and further interest in Ashburn diminished. Ashburn Field remained open until 1939.


We've come a long ways in the last 100 years...since the Wright Bros....

Below is some highlights from the 2009 AirVenture Flyin at Oshgosh, WI a few weeks ago...

(Thanks Dan)


Marty
Hartford City, IN

Trivia Tuesday TWOFER......

Nothing to do with Apple "computers" this week so Tim should not have a leg up on anyone. First person to email me at unobuckeroo@aol.com and correctly name the 2 gentlemen above, will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT bragging rights for the next 7 days!

Hints...
One of these gentlemen has written several great songs including one that holds the record for most U.S. airplays....first name is Harvey and was born in the Bronx....wrote his first # 1 hit for his group in 1958....involved in a car wreck in the mid-70's that almost killed him leaving him with over 700 stitches in his head and face....is listed in the Top 100 in Rolling Stones' list of "Greatest Artists of All Time"....his 9-year old son died of leukemia.... bi-polar and considers himself insane....won't be eligible for parole until he is 88.

The other gentleman.....was an avid gardener....had a sister who lived in Illinois....musician....record producer....film producer...included in "Rolling Stones' Top 100 Guitarists of All Time"....married twice....first wife went on to marry his best friend...his second wife was a Record Company secretary....played guitar for ELO & Cheech & Chong...once in a band called Wonder Wheel....huge fan of sports cars and motor racing...owned 1 of 100 produced McLaren F1 sports cars, which was capable of doing 240 mph and costs almost 4 million dollars at the time of production....no longer with us.


Marty
Cedar Springs, MI