How pumpkin pies are made......

Happy Halloween!!

Marty
(Big thanks to RK foreign correspondent James P. Farrell)

My Kinda Town.......

Todays topic....
"What goes up....."

Overview of Midway present day...was the World's Busiest in the 30's & 40's.

Before there was radar.....

Midway.....1941

Interesting "pool" just east of Soldier Field......

Missed it by that much.....

Dec 1972 crash at 3722 W. 70th Place

Coming in on their 2nd approach....

killed 43 on the plane....

2 on the ground....

17 survived.

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Take a ride......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHofRIOhiYc

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NEWS FLASH>>>>1955 crash.......
http://stream.efootage.com/clips/1955/54418.mov

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I remember riding my bike through the northern terminal in the mid-70's.

Yes....

I said inside of the terminal.....doing loops around Shipwreck Kelly's......

obviously before the days of the TSA.

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Marty

Marion, IL

We Have a Wiener!!

Mz. Maggie Pollard in minutes before a slew of other correct guessers....
I must go to the post office today....get stamps and get caught up!

Richard Milhous Nixon
Rod R. "Milorad" Blagojevich

Milorad.......wtf?

--Was given "honorary" FBI status by J. Edgar Hoover.
-- Buddy Ebsen was at his funeral.


--Rod's middle intial R......was for his Dad....Radislav.
--1980...While in NY on vacation....
he stalked Nixon outside of his NY home and
was able to get him to sign one of his law books.
--"football" was the code word his aides gave his hair brush!

Marty
Terre Haute, IN

My Kinda Town.....

Today's Topic....
"Let the games begin..."

Crowd outside of WBBM-TV Studios .....Nixon/Kennedy debates.....50 years ago last month!

Ahhhhh.....lovely sight after the Sox beat the Cubs a few years back.

Comiskey Park.....1952

A true Southsider at the Blackhawk's parade.

Chick Evans at the Jackson Park Links ....1945

(Wonder how Southside caddies went to college pre-1945??)

Bears take on Green Bay at Wrigley......1963

Babe Ruth heading south on State Street "trying" to get to Comiskey for a game.


White Sox World Series Champs 2005.......

parade was 5 years ago today.

MVP Jermaine Dye.....he didn't play in 2010.....

Rowand and my man Uribe are back in the dance.

What a difference 5 years make...

(Look closely and you can see me and the kids.)

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Marty

Edinburgh, IN

My Kinda Town......

Today's topic....
"Build it and they will come".......

Marina Towers/1961....once the tallest residential buildings in the world. Designed originally to reverse the "white flight" from the city's downtown area. All electric buildings....no gas or propane...Com Ed provided expensive building transformers at little or no charge.

View from the top of the Old Main Post Office looking west in 1951. Clearing is where the Eisenhower Expressway is now. Post Office was originally built in 1921 and designed with a large vacant hole at the bottom of the building...which would be used to place the expressway through some 30 years later. Sold recently for 17 million....cost 2 million/year to maintain.

Big John going up in the mid-60's at a cost of $100,000,000. Currently the 6th tallest building in the U.S. but does boast America's highest indoor swimming pool on the 44th floor. 700 condos....in which Jerry Springer and Chris Farley both once resided. Crossbeam design can handle winds of up to 132 miles per hour. Fastest elevators in the world at 20 mph.

The one that started it all.....

The Prudential Building in 1952.

Last of the downtown buildings to be connected to the underground Chicago Tunnel System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company

It once had an observation deck that brought in over a million visitors in it's first year open.

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Marty

Eaton, OH

Trivia Tuesday Twofer.......

Ok.....it's another Tuesday....and another shot at this week's GRAND PRIZE!!
Waaaaaay easier than last week's......I'm feeling guilty!

First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the two gentleman above....
will with this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.
Full names people......do your homework!

Hints...
Mr. Suit and Tie.....

• Lost his race to be H.S Class President
• Found that being a lawyer was not that exciting.....
• He wanted to work for the FBI right out of college....
• Met his wife ( was a fellow actor) in a play they were both in....
• Navy man during WW II
• Author and musician....
• Was an honorary member of the FBI and.....The Barnaby Jones Fan Club

Mr. Bad '80's Adidas running suit....

• No middle name....just an initial
• Worked on the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline
• Likes Charvet ties....
• Never far from the "football"
• Television star....kinda...
• Dad was a former Nazi prisoner during WWII
• Was NOT in The Barnaby Jones Fan Club.

Marty
Rockport, IN

My Kinda Town......Week!!

Getting waaaay backed up on my Chicago pics.....
so all this week will be "My Kinda Town" week.
.....and who better to kick off the week
Hizzoner....
Richard J. Daley.

St. Patrick's Cathedral in NY.....RFK lies in state.

Hizzoner picking which kid will vote next.....

RJ & JJ.....nice handshake......fill in your own "thought bubble".

JFK shows the Daley clan the new digs.....

"Why I oughta......

Hizzoner's first day of work....1955. Typical city worker........5 minutes late!

Couple of sweet quotes.....

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/richard_j_daley.html

Marty
Indianapolis, IN

TT Fact Checking......

Foreign correspondent C. Pollard checks in
(during a break from Bradley University's Parents Weekend on Saturday)
from the Parkview Cemetery in Peoria, IL....

Marty

Pay attention people!!

The lesson here is.....
watchout for moonwalking bears on motorcycles!!

Marty

You'll get nothing......and like it!!

OK...so no winners this week....
but maybe you'll learn something.

October...
I think of traditional fall colors like brown...yellow...
orange...and PINK!!

I have seen pink football players....
pink KFC buckets....
pink spatulas at Wal*Mart....
pink buildings/antennas in downtown Chicago...
a pink Ford Headquarters building last week in Detroit...
and even a pink White House this month.

SOOOOOOO..........
who is this "Susan G Komen for the Cure" lady anyways....??

This week's answer.....that's who.
(I even had her picture in "pink" on Tuesday...but no bites...HA!)

Susan Goodman Komen was born in Peoria, IL and died of breast cancer at age 36 in 1980.
Her birthday is on Halloween.

Her sister Nancy (also pictured above)
promised her sister that she would lead a crusade to raise awareness of this disease that currently takes a life every 69 seconds.
What started in her living room with a typewriter and a few neighbors has added up to quite a resume with over 1.5 BILLION dollars raised since 1982.

Nancy's Resume...
Chief of Protocol of the U.S
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary
Owns a Presidential Medal of Freedom
Time magazine, 100 Most Influential People in the World[
Ladies’ Home Journal’s 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century
Biography Magazine’s The 25 Most Powerful Women in America
University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award
The Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen
Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Divorced twice (she's never home...cha..cha..cha!)

Marty
Indy, IN

Song of the Week......

"Gone to Shilo"
.....must have listened to this song a dozen times today.

Elton.... Leon.... and Neil.

.....along with a little history lesson
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/shiloh.htm

Marty
Rockport, IN

U.P. and over the lake.....

I must say....
over the 73,277 miles that I have put on my 2010 Impala
in the last 12 months...
Tuesday's 250 from Escanaba, MI to Traverse City, MI were the most rewarding.

I have never been around Lake Michigan or in the U.P. for that matter...
very serene and untouched.
Gives one a whole new perspective for how big the lake really is.
Lots of older 40's-50's roadside motels that have been updated along the way and small towns that look like fun.

Today was beautiful..and in the 60's...hard to keep ones eyes on the road.

Driving with my knees...
on my cell phone...
eating an Egg McMuffin.....
shaving...
and taking this picture.
(just kidding Mom.....
it was a Sausage McMuffin)

Pulled over for this one.....Mackinac Bridge in the distance.
1000 times more beautiful in person.

Marty
Payne, OH

Trivia Tuesday......

Ok.....coming off of the Jon Stewart debacle from last week....
its time to pull out a tough one.
First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the lady in question above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT bragging rights for the next 7 days.
Not a lot of hints this week......
because she is still kind of a mystery to me also?

Hints....

• Fellow Illinoisan from downstate....
• part time model
• Homecoming Queen....
• Married her college sweetheart....
• Jewish...
• NOT Mindy from "Mork & Mindy"
• would have been 67 this month...
• has a powerful and strong-willed sister.

Marty
Traverse City, MI

...and you thought I had too much time on MY hands!

Marty
Escanaba, MI

So you want to be a stuntman......

Marty

When Mike was King......

John...Chuck.....
.......and Yoko on bongo.

Marty

We Have a Wiener!!!

OK...OK....OK already.....stop emailing me!
This week's was WAY TOO easy and set a record for correct guesses!

......but only the FIRST CORRECT guess wins.....
and that was in at the 3 minute mark from Mz. Maggie Pollard!!
Congrats Maggie.....your Grand Prize will be on it's way soon.

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz was this week's correct answer.....

--Changed his name from Leibowitz to Stewart because Leibowitz was too "Hollywood"
--some think it was due to his strained relationship with his father...with whom he hasn't had contact with since he was 11 years old.
--Recently changed his "family name" from Stuart to Stewart.
--His older brother is the COO of the NY Stock Exchange...
--Not a Rick Sanchez fan....and I agree...coin flip between Rick and Nancy Grace to who is the most annoying person IN THE WORLD!!
(those two are two more reasons to sell your TV)
--too smug for me....but Mom loves him and his sidekick.

Marty
Louisville, KY

PS....TT Rules for newbies....
TT starts every TUESDAY at 10:00AM SHARP.
The sharks start circling around 9:50....so refresh often.
You MUST have the correct FULL name and SPELLING of that week's puzzle!!
First correct answer.....takes the Grand Prize!!

My Kinda Town.......

Before the Bears played there......
Barnum & Bailey did.

1944

Marty
New Matamoras, OH

Take Two and a Half......

Marty

Kent, OH

Trivia Tuesday......

OK....it's Tuesday...and a new week!

First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the shaggy haired gentleman above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!!

Hints....

• Former puppeteer.....busboy.....bartender
• and spent sometime at Woolworth's as a stockboy!
• Has appeared on Sesame Street and The Simpsons....
• Once was one of People's Most Beautiful Persons in the World
• I'm two days older than him....
• He has one wife...two kids....two pit bulls and a cat.
• not a fan of his Dad's
• not a fan of Rick...
• I'm not a fan of his...

Marty
Lakeview, OH

Less than 60 shopping days until my birthday.....

Marty
Tell City, IN

10/10/10 = 23

Wow 23 years....

If you were to ask me....
if I could turn back the clock and do it all over again...
.........would I??

OF COURSE I WOULD!!

I wouldn't miss Uncle John Barry's
version of the "Chicken Dance" for nothing!

Marty

Grover is "fantastic"..........

Marty

We Have a Wiener!!

Mz. Molly Flynn was the first in this week with the Watusi dancers....
Terrence Steve McQueen &
Lucy (Luci) Baines Johnson Turpin, formerly Nugent.
(somebody was an overachiever!)

Lucy changed her spelling to Luci...
changed religions and was married.... all by 19.
Daughter of LBJ and LBJ...and sister of LBJ.

Stever....
grew up just outside of Indy...rough childhood with parent issues...eventually spending part of his youth in a Boys Home.

But even he couldn't beat the cancer "bullitt"...

Dead at 50.

Marty
Marion, IL

If you got 'em......smoke 'em!!

My Sweet Lord.....

Dead at 58.

Marty
Randolph, WI

One bad mutha......

....can't be real....
but still pretty cool.

Marty
Fayette, OH

Trivia Tuesday Twofer......

Staying far away from the Sports Category this week....
and you know how I like correct names and spelling!!

Before there was "Dancing with the Stars"....there was this!
FIRST email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the "dancing couple" above will be this week's GRAND PRIZE WINNER and have TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!

Hints....

Dancing Queen....

• Has the same initials as her sister...and her Dad...and her Mother.
• Probably knows the "two-step" better than what she is dancing above.
• Changed the spelling of her name in her teens....
• Changed religions in her teens...
• Changed her "single status" in her teens...

Sir Dance-a-Lot....

• A Hoosier....
• partially deaf...
• dyslexic....
• part-time gangbanger....
• Marine....but demoted over a half dozen times....
• "Best Actor" nominee....

Marty
Eastlake, OH

If you got 'em....smoke 'em!

Inspired by the Flinstone Winston Commercials.....
I am starting a new feature....

"If you got 'em....smoke 'em!"

First installment...
....just the "facts" Jack!

Dead at 62.

Marty
Kent, OH

Take Five.....

Cool......but glad it didn't land on me.

I'm not buying the old "batteries died" excuse at the end.....somebody got dinged!

Marty

Happy 50th Fred!!

Yabba.....Dabba.....Death!
Cha....Cha....Cha!

Marty

We have a Wiener!!!

I knew I should have went with the TT Trio instead of the TT duo.....

Molly Flynn was the first in with Franco Harris and Doug Buffone.
(sorry Mr. Swale.....
but I'll give you some extra credit if you can guess Mystery Man #3)

Who knew that Franco was half Italian??
About as Italian as Franco-American Meatballs....
has most fumbles by a NFL running back .........at 90!

Doug Buffone....
he was broadcasting from Fat Sams this past Monday night....
and at 66...he still looks like he could lace them up and get back at it.

Doug....born in PA.....
part owner of Gibson's Steakhouse....
he was the last active player to have played for George Halas.....
played for 15 seasons (186 games....3rd most amongst Bears players)
had over 1200 tackles....still holds Bears record for most sacks in a season (18).

Marty
Aurora, IL